#but then the Nexus gets liberated and everyone with inhuman ancestry or sealed Abilities starts going bonkers oops

[the-iron-orchid]

TFW you suddenly start sprouting scales, horns, and claws at random and all you know is that it fills you with a sourceless sense of dread and guilt... but the tiny Desi goth who runs the local occult shop just smiles and calls you Babygirl.

(Click for better quality, because tunglr likes to make things blurry. This was supposed to be a shitpost render, but then I decided to see if I could actually make Bas more monster-y... technical notes under the cut.)

Bastien belongs to @daisydevorak and appears with permission!

Currently this is a quick kitbash to test if I could make him scaly by using a geoshell, opacity maps, and an extremely basic scale shader with displacement. It turns out that I can! :D Later, I plan to make him a scaly shell with a fully custom texture that is more in line with his sprite art, using 3DCoat and Smart Materials.

I'd also like to try and give him his digitigrade dragon-legs, though that's a bit of a challenge because those only come as part of a full-body morph (FBM). While I can separate that out and still keep the basic rigging, I will lose all the helper morphs that prevent distortion when posing, so I'm going to have to manually correct for that in Zbrush every time I pose him.