Matt Mackie
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"Alien" The Ovomorph - (Real-time Fan Art)

Inspired by my love for the Alien franchise I decided to recreate the Xenomorph egg for some organic modeling practice.
Had lots of fun tackling the forms on this, from large folds to the more nuanced scale shapes on the rocky exterior. Similarly, working on some realistic fleshy textures was pretty awesome. Leveraging some procedurals and hand painting in Substance!

The shaders in UE5 took a lot of tweaking in order to get the photorealistic look I was going for but I finally got them to a point that I was happy with in the end. Hope you like it and please feel free to ask me any questions about the process!

Realtime renders in UE5

Realtime renders in UE5

Additional Renders

Additional Renders

Texture breakdown

Texture breakdown

High poly sculpt in Zbrush

High poly sculpt in Zbrush

Hand retopology in Blender

Hand retopology in Blender

Tiling detail normals

Tiling detail normals

The custom shader for the white cartlidge bits uses a custom painted mask and dithering to blend the meshes together seamlessly

The custom shader for the white cartlidge bits uses a custom painted mask and dithering to blend the meshes together seamlessly

Drool shader using the Unreal Substrate material workflow for maximum realism.

Drool shader using the Unreal Substrate material workflow for maximum realism.

References - With so many examples to choose from I ended up using mostly H.R Giger's original egg from the first Alien film as it stood out to me the most!

References - With so many examples to choose from I ended up using mostly H.R Giger's original egg from the first Alien film as it stood out to me the most!

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