The Brown Crab (Cancer Pagurus)

(Student Project)
Here's my final specialization project for my third year of UNI which I made over the period of 5 weeks. The focus of this project was mainly on texturing, but I created the entire crab from scratch which meant I had to photoscan, sculpt, texture, rig, animate, groom, look-dev and composite everything on my own.

I learned a bunch of new things such as xGen from a pipeline perspective and getting it to work with an animated character. I also got to try out Maris node graph for the first time, which to my surprise was very intuitive and efficient.

There's some compositing issues here and there, but it's time to put this project on the shelf and move on to the next one :-)

Special thanks to Erika Madsen, Ludwig Ek and my classmates for great feedback and help!