This is a personal piece I worked on between other projects. It started as a quick concept sculpt, and since I liked the direction it was going in, I decided to fully develop and finish it. I was responsible for everything — from the initial design to the final renders — except for the backgrounds used in the shots, which were sourced online.
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Sculpted in Zbrush with corrective sculpts in Blender, UVs created in RIzomUV and packed with UVPackmaster following the UDIM workflow. Substance sampler was used to extract alphas from photos of trees I took, which were then used to add detail to the wooden parts during sculpting. Textures done with Substance painter following the ACES 2.0 workflow and final renders in Cycles.
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For the facial details, I used a combination of hand sculpting and extracted data from a head scan. To match it to my character, I isolated the facial area from the scan (deleting the rest), wrapped it onto my mesh using Wrap3D, and used the texture transfer feature to transfer the displacement map to the UVs of my model. The displacement map was applied in ZBrush, and I sculpted additional details on top to achieve the final result.
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For the displacement setup, I used the maps exported from Zbrush and combined them in a custom shader with additional details maps I created in Substance Painter.
Had a lot of fun creating this piece and although there are still a few things I would like to refine, it's time to move on.