Welcome to the making of of the My Little Pony Characters 'Ember' and 'Spike'. I wanted to create a 3D interpretation of the 2D flash characters. Ember and Spike are Property of Hasbro.

I started by modeling ember from a front and side view orthographic. I draw lines across my orthographic work to keep the multiple takes of the character consistent with one another.

when I created spike I started with a sculpt from his front and side view then retopologized him. The process took less time and yielded a better result.

Ember was built from scratch in Maya. She never touched Zbrush or Mudbox, though I did retopologize her face a couple times to fine tune for the shape I was after. Edge loops are placed to make expressions optimal.

Along with an outward polish I made sure to incorporate smaller details with both Ember and Spike.

I'm quite proud of their wing geometry. By converting the nets of the wings into Ncloths and sewing them to their wing frames they can actually achieve a realistic leathery wing effect.

I moved into Quixel for a texturing session on Ember...

...and followed up with Spike.

The final result actually looks much different and a final product can be found on the Project Showcase. (link in the description)