freely inspired from a concept of my friend and talented artist Joel Dos Reis Viegas -- His website -- -- Steambot -- Final picture BEHIND THE SCENE Concept from Joel and the base mesh for sculpting 2 different steps during the "monster" sculpting : "human" behavior + "monster" declension First basic Sculpting pass thanks to Mudbox Second Sculpting pass thanks to Zbrush which is amazing to come in depth with precision piece of rock (Mudbox) with a Bronze preview in ZBrush Max scene screenshot with the "liquid" between thighs 2 Vray lights + 2 omnis to light sepcific areas + 1 spot light for the main "sun" with a volume effect the four render pictures that i used to compose the final one : color + Skin + liquid + occlusion all the textures (diffuse) were made with : flat color + cavity map + occlusion map + normal map + detailling stuff the final picture, resulting by the four above pictures composition + some photoshop treatment