⇨ High resolution renders of the dragon: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9eeNOL

CONTENT
In this video you will learn how to create a dragon in Blender 2.79 for 3d printing. Additionally, we will take a quick look on how to create a procedural material for the EEVEE realtime render engine in Blender 2.8. This video is a mixture of tutorial and timelapse parts. The original dragon creation took about 30 hrs.

CHAPTERS
00:00 – Introduction
04:10 – 01 Collecting References
05:50 – 02 Creating the Base Mesh
07:14 – 03 Base Mesh Techniques
10:37 – 04 Preparing Base Mesh for Sculpting
11:42 – 05 Separating Meshes
12:58 – 06 Basic Sculpting Setup
13:44 – 07 Sculpting the Main Shapes
18:31 – 08 Separating Parts of the Sculpting
22:05 – 09 Colorize Separated Parts
22:37 – 10 Trial and Error
26:30 – 11 Finalizing the Main Shapes
27:50 – 12 Creating the Wings
29:45 – 13 Automatic Retopology
33:07 – 14 Use Masks for Creating Details
37:43 – 15 Creating the Scales
40:48 – 16 Adding Details
42:58 – 17 Brush Texture Setup
44:45 – 18 Preparation for 3D Printing
47:30 – 19 Separating the Mesh for 3D Printing
50:09 – 20 Blender 2.8 EEVEE Material
53:49 – Outro

SOFTWARE
⇨ Download Blender: https://www.blender.org/download/
⇨ Download Blender 2.8: https://builder.blender.org/download/

RESOURCES
⇨ Danny’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr_uz-iWzyR1VJNlN-E1y7w
⇨ Lost Dragon Kickstarter campaign: http://kck.st/2MHls9i 
⇨ PurRef (Reference collecting tool): https://www.pureref.com/
⇨ Free Alphas (Brush Textures): https://pixologic.com/zbrush/downloadcenter/alpha/
⇨ 50 Dragon Alphas (paid but cheap): https://gumroad.com/l/oAjLg
⇨ SculptJanuary: http://weeklycgchallenge.com/sculptjanuary-2018/

TUTORIALS
⇨ Blender 2.8 EEVEE Autofocus fun: https://youtu.be/uPT1zZGC7fw
⇨ Tips for symmetry sculpting: https://youtu.be/YbQvxfrjoTI
⇨ Tips for high resolution sculpting in Blender: https://youtu.be/fw32i2dBfEo
⇨ Solving sculpting problems in Blender: https://youtu.be/DAdYQ4xpNo0

MY SYSTEM
⇨ Windows 10 PC
⇨ 32 GB RAM
⇨ Intel Core i7-7700K CPU
⇨ NVIDEA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card
⇨ Wacom Intuos Pro M graphics tablet

CONNECT
⇨ Website: https://zachariasreinhardt.com
⇨ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artofzachariasreinhardt/
⇨ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zreinhardt3d
⇨ Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artist/zreinhardt
⇨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zacharias_reinhardt/
⇨ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/zachariasreinhardt/
⇨ Mailing List: http://zachariasreinhardt.com/mailing-list/

MUSIC
Various tracks from epidemicsound.com and premiumbeat.com