Dragon ball Imperfect Cell

Here's a project that I've work on and off for almost a year. Thing I want to learn from this project is to try 3d printing.
Render with blender cycle , and texture paint with zbrush polypaint.

In the first place I did not plan to texture it. But after a few weeks break I feel my design was not clear enough. Giving it color definitely helps on my design to be more clear.

I'm really surprised with blender performance, this model was not optimize at all. I didn't use displacement cause I do no have a good topology with uv for it. I'm Thankful that Blender managed to render it out.

lighting setup with just HDR.
I got my HDR texture from hdrihaven , is a great place to get good color template.

Roughness map can differently be big help, but I think is good enough for concept idea how this could turn out for painter

It all start from here , the block stage.
Is been years I've practicing to sculpt in digital and I always wanted to see my digital sculpture into form that I can hold it. I ended up picking dragon ball my childhood comic!

First test with blender cycles , i'm really happy with the result!

zbrush Polypaint pass. Moving forward I will always paint my model. It helps a lot with the design decision. Color change is part of designing.