His Dark Materials

Some of the work done at Painting Practice on His Dark Materials when the production was still at Twickenham Studios in May 2018.
I spent around a month working on the bear doing a back and forth between the production designer Joel Collins and the VFX Supervisor Dan May. In the end, the armour changed on screen but I still like the initial direction and funny enough you can see it in the few Previs clips Painting Practice released on their website.
I took so much pleasure from working on this, trying to figure out how intricate the armour was turned out to be very challenging and such a massive learning experience. I got to learn tools in Zbrush I had never used before that time.
On top of that I got to study polar bears in depth; how they move, fight, stand, how their fur looks, their skin colour (some degree of black by the way). Did you know they are classified as marine mammals? I didn't at that time but thanks to this project I got to learn this and more.