Froggy Mercury

A couple of years ago, in between client projects, I took part in a 3D community challenge. The brief was simple but fun: create a dating profile for an original character.

I came up with Froggy Mercury — a slightly ridiculous, slightly sexy frog with way too much confidence. The character was first hand-drawn, then brought into 3D using Cinema 4D and ZBrush, textured in Substance Painter, and finally rigged and animated using Rokoko motion capture.

Somehow, it worked. The piece made it into the Top 100 selected characters.

You can watch the official community review video below.