Pedro's Ants

Pedro Pupa's reliable and loyal worker ants created for my previous post:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8b8dnn
The Ants are enemies in the second level of Earthworm Jim 2, Lorenzen's Soil. For unknown reasons, they will occasionally be seen carrying human babies around in their mandibles.
This asset was only meant to be auxiliary to Pedro Pupa so I only spent a day on it, from modelling through to rigging and animation. It ended up turning out better than I expected and now it gets it's own post. Maybe one day I'll model one of the babies for it to carry around.

Modelling: ZBrush
Retop: Houdini
Rigging: Houdini, KineFX
Animation: Houdini, KineFX.
Texturing: Substance Painter
Lookdev / Materials: Karma, MaterialX
Lighting / Rendering: Houdini, Karma
Comp / Finishing: Nuke, Resolve

*The dirt mound is courtesy of Quixel Megascans.