Mortem Rex - Jurassic World Alive

I was really happy to be assigned the Mortem Rex, our first Apex raid boss on Jurassic World Alive, at the start of 2020.
Release video:
https://www.facebook.com/JurassicWorldAlive/videos/204053331048899

I really pushed as far as I could with the knowledge I had at the time, but it's awesome to see how far this job has progressed me in just about 3 years.
The final texture is 512x512, consisting of Diffuse, Specular, Normal, Emissive and Rimlight mask.
The concept is by joé Lesaffre.
https://jlesaffre.artstation.com/projects/9NVRko

Rigging and skinning by Jonathan Werlen.

JWA environments by Alex Kam, Guillaume Couture and Margaret Van Dyke.
https://www.artstation.com/alexkam
https://www.artstation.com/mvd

Environment VFX by Tobiasz Filipowicz.

Animations by the animation team at Ludia.

The final model diverted quite a bit from the concept to match both the rig, my own vision and the artdirection we wanted to take for the vfx.
I started playing around with the VFX smoke in Unity on this creature, and ended up doing a lot of the creature VFX for both the Mortem Rex, Hadros Lux, Ceramagnus and the Gorgotrebax along with our tech artists Olivier Dufault and David Cérat. It was a really cool learning experience!