This ritual skull piece was designed from my original concept. In game, it may hang against a wall at the end of a long hall, over an altar or ritual table, on in an inlet among other artifacts. I really enjoyed studying photos of aged bones, horns, and metals to help develop my textures and materials. I wanted the piece to feel very aged, but not as though it had been abandoned. I modeled the base mesh for this in Maya, sculpted it in Zbrush (including zspheres for the branches), and developed textures in Substance Painter. I rendered it out in Arnold. Banners from an alpha map I painted in Photoshop.

Chain Brush

Rope Brush from Badking.au which is now offline

Skull Base Model (Lowest Subdivision)

Bird Skull Base Model