Hi everyone. First post in a while here. I want to post my glam shots and progress of my TMNT sculpt WIP inspired by a series of paintings by Dave Rapoza. I plan to start designing the body and posting my progress here.

Here is a color BPR with a little photoshoppery magic and a matcap BPR to see the sculpt detail. Enjoy!

(in case I didn't attach the images correctly, they live on cghub here: http://cghub.com/images/view/216693/)

This is awesome! I always loved those dark concepts.

This is sick! Now make it a full character!!

There were quite a lot of turtles these days, but I didn´t like any of them ( maybe I missed a cool piece, dunno) but THIS one is sooooo cool!

Maybe just the eyeball itself could.... no wait, texture will do it : )

fantastic work!!! i love it. Leo was my favorite!

Wowzers! Stellar work.
Great attention to detail

ace!

Oh man, I didn't expect anything clicking on the title of your post.... how wrong I was.
This is freaking cool, I love how you handled the expression. Banner material.

NAILED IT! Awesome work.

Nice would love to see how you went about doing the fabric.

Wow! Looks amazing!

yeah me too, the fabric looks AWESOME. as does it all.

NICE!!!

Not digging the chest strap it feels like plastic to me, but everything else is amazing!

Sick work there!

Simply love it!

Originally Posted by itismario

This is sick! Now make it a full character!!

This.

Initial reaction

Amazing!

Holy schmoly!

that's awesome, great translation of the concept

I just pooped a little.

thats is perfecty!!! exactly like concept, i have a question did you have to get permission from the concept artist first or r u allowed to model stuff off others concepts??

Fantastic!

Hey thanks all for the kind feedback! Go check out Dave Rapoza's livestreams too!

@LRoy: Thanks! Glad you like the concepts too : )
@itismario: I've already started!! I'll post some progress soon...
@C86G: Haha, thanks man. Textures will be rad, I cant wait to start!
@coots7: Thanks! I'm happy you dig it. I love how Dave made Leo so battle hardened and raw. I definitely want to stay true to his vision : )
@kevlar jens: Ha thanks! Cant wait to detail the body.
@eric.: Thanks!
@BeatKitano: What's wrong with my post title?! : D Haha, thanks for the compliments!
@duncan: I really tried to do Dave's work justice. (His is still cooler I think : )
@SnakeDoctor: I was thinking about posting some detail screens if there's more interest. Basically I used displacement for the fine detail and separate tubes for the frayed strings.
@KarlWang: Thanks!
@Chimp: Cool, thanks : )
@Thegodzero: Totally agree. A lot of it looks too shiny for my taste. But then again, it was a quick BPR. Textures will help resolve those issues down the road. Thanks for the feedback!
@spectre1130: Thanks a lot.
@Miche: Cool man! Glad you like.
@jramauri: I'm on it! Promise.
@Torch: Bahaha! Love the tears of joy : )
@Callesw: Schmoly! haha
@Ravenslayer: Thanks dude
@konstruct: My plan is working! The pooping of the masses has begun...
@drunksgt: Thanks. I did not get Dave's permission so-to-speak, but I did contact him before posting anywhere basically out of respect. I think it is important to notify the original artist, especially if the artist owns the creative property you want to model. They may be cool with it, they may not be.

sick work man!

I can't wait to see the rest

really sweet interpretation! awesome work man!