Dragon Lanterns Remastered

I mentioned a little while ago I have a lot of remakes planned which I'll be working on occasionally - and the first pack I updated was the lantern trio ( they're one of my favorites ) these remake versions won't be frequent but an update every other month is still better then every other year right? I'm still working on my UV unwrapping so that I can switch to mesh only releases soon.

These remake versions (or Version R) releases have entirely new geometry and textures with the aim of reducing land impact and include mesh versions with materials. For the most part I'll try to stay true to the original design, ( like I did with Lantern I ) but in a lot of cases I'll be totally redoing anything I find too old looking, or too repetitive.

With Lantern II for instance I remodeled it into an eastern dragon to add variety to the pack, so that we don't have 3 western dragons and for the most part I kept the original style of the light section.

Lantern III was remodeled entirely, as we already have a globe light on the first lantern and the dragon part didn't look very different from the other two in the original.

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Dragon IV Update

Remember this one? No right? It's a dust-covered dragon that hasn't gotten too much love since it was first created. My question was, how to update it without losing it's original look? I played around with it a little until I got a stylized result that I liked. The original subject material was made out of copper, so I tried to reflect that with it's new default texture set. I also included a stone version to honer the original.

Cobra Update

Back when I first made the cobra, I didn't know how to use any other sculpted primitive type besides 32x32. So I couldn't make a long body like what's possible with a 16x64 and as a result, it's body was split into multiple sections. That has always bugged me. I decided to rework it next knowing it was simple enough that it wouldn't take me longer then a couple days to do. I gave it a base to sit on and textured it with a golden material that I came up with after combining a few different substances together for some depth. End result = SHINY! The idea to make a gold one came from Ancient Egyptian themed statues and artifacts.

Dragon X Update

Dragon X is now version 3! With smoother geometry and a complete beard, it looks more like the subject material that first inspired it. It has better normal maps and nicer textures, as well as a few other Oriental-themed material sets, Jade and Gold! I wanted so bad to make it Jade when I was first sculpting it, but I had no idea how to design my own substance materials back then. I also didn't know how mirror mesh models without flipping the normals, turning the model inside-out, and causing upload errors so only the sculpted version was mirrored. Now I can safely upload mirrored mesh models and Dragon X was the first thing I updated with that. Cheers to mirrors, and substance-material authoring.

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