Spongy

This is Spongy, a character I created while practicing using Designer. I wanted to recreate a stylized sponge material, and when I did that I placed the material on a sphere and thought, "what if I added eyes, arms and a mouth?" Then it started to become something fleshed out.

I put together a reference and inspiration board and continued from there. Some of the things that inspired me were films such as Inside Out, Elemental, The Super Mario Movie, SpongeBob and of course a kitchen sponge.

The large forms were sculpted in Zbrush. I used Painter for texturing and rendered it in Marmoset Toolbag 4.