Mech-Animal Tiger, hard-surface sculpt with gear interiors

Hard-Surface Sculpt — Maya

Mech-Animal: Tiger

I wanted a mechanical tiger that still felt muscular and alive. Its body is built from hard-surface parts, with stripes cut as negative space to reveal the gears underneath.

Mech-Animal: Tiger

Hard-Surface Sculpt — Maya

What went into it

  • Developed from my own concept sketches.
  • Built the tiger's muscle shapes entirely from hard-surface parts.
  • Modeled and textured in Maya, with negative-space stripes revealing the gears inside.
Mech-Animal Tiger, hard-surface sculpt with gear interiors

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