Koroks
KOROK FOREST BTS
Click here to see the forest’s BTS !
INITIAL
IDEAS
Since i’ve played Zelda : Breath of the Wild, I’ve been really fond of koroks! Their design is so cute, whimsical, silly, yet so grounded in the forest, so remaking them really was a pleasure (with its challenges though!)
Koroks are fictional characters and intellectual property owned by Nintendo. All related names, designs, and trademarks belong to Nintendo.
This is fanmade content !
BODY MODELING
PROCESS
I started with adding loop cuts to a cube, extruding its faces to create the arms and legs, then i subdivided the mesh and extruded it some more to make the ears/branches. The process was the same with all of the koroks bodies :)
BODY SHADING
BODY SHADING
I kept the shading quite simple with these nodes, allowing me full control over the korok’s stripes and colors.
BODY SHADING
BODY SHADING
BODY TOPOLOGY
BODY TOPOLOGY
BODY TOPOLOGY
BODY TOPOLOGY
MASK MODELING PROCESS
MASK MODELING PROCESS
MASK MODELING
PROCESS
For the masks, i started with a simple plane, that i cut in half to mirror it, then proceeded to add loop cuts, extrude edges, subdivide to soften up the corners, and kept moving vertices around until being satisfied :)
MASKS Shading, trials
and errors!
Initially, i tried to texture paint of the masks, turns out i didn’t really like the end result, i felt quite a lack of control over the texture, contrary to procedural shading. Ultimately, i just manually cut the parts of the masks, separated them from the main mesh, and shaded them individually.
RIGGING
