More Daemon Prince Progress

Finishing the back of my custom Daemon Prince sculpt—gap filling, adding mushroom details, and planning the legs for my Children of Gomb competition entry.

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Today I’m finishing up the back of the Daemon Prince. Now that we have the back mostly done and filled in, I can spend the bulk of my efforts on the face and figuring out what I’m going to do for the legs.

Gap Filling the Back

I’ve condensed about an hour and a half of work into just about two minutes at 2x speed. It’s the same process as yesterday—filling in air bubbles and holes, trying to match the original texture as well as I could. I think I did a halfway decent job.

I fleshed in the full back and extended the new texture. I wanted it to look almost like a blanket of stuff growing over him. In the big colored divots, I added some details—I think I’ll be able to pop those off once it hardens since they’d be hard to cast as-is.

Mushroom Experiments

I was modeling different types of gnarly mushrooms—cordyceps was a big inspiration, then I just googled mushrooms and picked ones I hadn’t seen before. My goal was to have them coming out of the four holes in his back. One of them might be too big, but that’s the one I put the most time on. Maybe it’ll go down on the base or somewhere else instead.

Lore Course Correction

I read the Hobgoblin lore—the game this competition is for—and Gomb is more about hunger, not the mushroom and rock aesthetic. So I popped the mushrooms off because there’s actually another arcane entity in the Hobgoblin world that the mushrooms and fecundity correspond to. I can’t believe how well fleshed out the lore is. I’ll probably make another video talking about that.

I got the back done and now we’re moving on to the legs and head tomorrow. I’ll fill in those holes with something else instead of mushrooms.

Legs Planning

I was thinking tentacles, but maybe not now. Maybe little feet or tiny legs instead. The original Daemon Prince’s legs go way up and then back down, so I’m thinking the rounded part I already made could be the knee, then just coming straight down into some gnarly feet. But I don’t want to keep handling the piece—I want everything to dry first.

Wrapped up with some 3D printing for customer orders and another project tied into the Hobgoblin thing. More on that soon.