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Call of Cthulhu Statue

One of my goals for this project was to portray Cthulu's initial description while having a base set from reality, but the closer you look, the more things don't seem right.
I also had limited time with the Z brush before it ran out and I wanted to test myself in trying to make a hard surface model of a soft-body creature work as a statue.

My initial thinking on why I added extra muscles was that this thing is based upon such a massive creature. It needs more muscles to move and it's immense the fact that it is not from this world.

Role: Hard Surface
Software: Zbrush, Maya, Substance Painter,
Techniques: Sculpted, Retopology, UV, Textured, Lighting
Year: 2025

I brought it to Maya: Retopology, UV it, set up lighting, then moved it to substance painter for textures, before returning to Maya and rendering it.

More info, different shots, turn around, on this page.

References & Progress

The original illustration of the statue found in the Call of Cthulhu.

Many times, dragon wings are described as bat-like, like so I just went to that source.

Something I want to point out is see you can see on the bat reference. Bat wings are like tiny hands and you can see slight finger muscles.
The way I translated that into Cthulhu was more giving it human calf muscles instead of more slender muscles. My reasoning, that it’s such a massive creature. It needs the strength to lift itself.