Making Haviland Tuf's cats of the book Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin. Part 2.

Tuf Voyaging is a science fiction fix-up novel by George Martin created from several short fiction stories about adventures of Haviland Tuf. He is extraordinary person, exceptionally unorthodox and I’d say he’s genius. Haviland Tuf is tall, bald, pale, overweight, a very clever man, able to intellectual development incessantly. He is also very well-behaved, civilized, moral, discreet person, phlegmatic, vegetarian, cat-loving-but-otherwise very solitary...

In the novel Tuf becomes the master of the Ark - a huge starship. The Ark is a very powerful warship with advanced ecological engineering technologies of the Earth Civilization - the Federal Empire's Ecological Engineering Corp of the Earth. The Ark is a Seedship because it has the power to create life, new genetic combinations and new biological species. Haviland Tuf use the Ark exclusively for peaceful and humane purposes offering his own effective ecological solutions for the Galaxy worlds with environmental, social, humanitarian problems.

It’s not a portrait of a particular cat but more of a collective image, a sculptural sketch. I like cats very much and the main character of the novel is also very fond of cats too )))

Making Haviland Tuf's cat of the book Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin. Part 1 - with video workflow records.

Turntable video of Haviland Tuf's cats / Zbrush:

 

Haviland Tuf's Sitting Cat of the book Tuf Voyaging:

Conceptual renderings:

Optimizing mesh:

Separate renderings:

Turntable video of Sitting Cat / Zbrush:

Haviland Tuf's Affectionate Cat of the book Tuf Voyaging:

Conceptual rendering:

Testing silhouette:

Optimizing mesh:

Separate renderings: 

Haviland Tuf's Lying cat / Optimizing mesh:

Haviland Tuf's Lying cat:

Conceptual renderings:

Turntable video of Lying cat / Zbrush: