Behind the Scenes: Durotan Portrait

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INTRODUCTION

Hello everybody, I am Claudio Cirino from Brazil, and I work as a software program engineer, however 3D laptop graphics is my ardour. I have been utilizing Blender since 2014, and have adopted it as the principle device for my digital paintings.

INSPIRATION

I am a giant fan of World of Warcraft, and once I appeared on the idea artwork of Durotan made by Wei Wang, I seen the expressiveness of his eyes and fell in love with the portrait.

On the identical time, I used to be finding out 3D portraiture in Blender and determined to make use of it to create a portrait of the character.

MODEL

The mannequin and portray had been finished in Zbrush and later exported to Blender, the place the retopology was carried out.

Because it was a portrait requiring intricate pores and skin particulars, I made a decision to make use of UDIM and a number of high-resolution maps. On this case, there have been 2 maps of 8k for the face and 1 map for the remainder of the bust.

HAIR

Initially, the hair was created utilizing the Particle system, however later I opted for the brand new hair system in Blender 3.5, which made the creation course of simpler and considerably improved efficiency.