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in this page ill be showcasing a maguca redesign

maguca is a legendary etherian from monsters of etheria

magu

first stage


magecci

mutates from magu at lvl 30

maguca

mutates from magecci at lvl 65

i dont know why theyre shaking when not hovered over but its in charatcer



redesign drawing!

i made this specifically for modelling reference

hence why i didnt care about the inconsistent lineweight

when redesigning maguca, i wanted to lean more towards the rest of its mutation lines theme of trickster magician rather than being an eldritch horror and i thought keeping the bowtie from magu, collar from magecci and the red from both would communicate this

i also tried to incorporate all the card symbols but not sure how well its communicated (spades are wing tips, club is the hat feather)

i have no idea what magucas wings are meant to be, so i thought adding some inspiration from marx's and flandre scarlet's wings could help (not too familiar with either's franchises but they seem fitting for maguca + magu line already has plenty of kirby inspiration)

(not present in my drawing but) BlueFireMochi's drawing of maguca with the diamond pattern inspired me to make the textures i did

BlueFireMochi's official maguca artwork

marx from kirby

scarlet flandre from touhou



still moving textures

this was made with this shader nodes set up and 3 diamond textures



eyeball rig

this was made using 3 shape key modifiers affecting a cube cutting out the eyelid with a boolean modifier controlled with drivers controlled with bones



expressions and lip syncing

the face is drawn on the surface of the head using a grease pencil object and parented to a dedicated bone using an object constraint

this allows for any sort of expression or mouth shape while moving with the head too



boing


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