Kin of the Black Dragon

In the raw files for Dark Souls, some black dogs prior to the boss Kalameet are called "Black Dragon Family". For our project I thought I'd push this idea a little further. Made this primarily to step slightly out of my comfort zone and work on something full of hair cards and fur stuff as this stuff to my mind is hard to get right. Clearly based on the Beast of Darkness from Berserk, but also took some cues from fan doll made by Marina Maskimova. In this case, I've gone for dragon claw marks to scour out the eye.

All images and video rendered from real time in Marmoset Toolbag. No anisotropy or fancy stuff here as this was designed to work for an older engine, so I had to pull out some quasi flow map blending to normal map tricks to get it to behave a little more like fur.
Everything was designed and made in under a week, design/high poly, final rigged textured mesh ingame.

The sword I borrowed a sculpt from my partner Rosalie and redid the highpoly to suit what I needed, check her out:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kDkl9d