Whenever possible, I kept elements symmetrical for as long as I could. The legs, helmet, corset, metal claws, and parts of the gloves were initially created symmetrically, and I only broke the symmetry later during the detailing stage. I also try not to rush out of the blockout stage. It is important for me to lock the proportions, silhouette, and main design decisions before moving on to more time-consuming detailing.<\/p>\n
I also built the geometry with the future low-poly in mind. Whenever possible, the first subdivision level was already clean enough to use as a low-poly base. Elements such as straps were often created directly as low-poly and then refined in either ZBrush or Maya depending on the task.<\/p>\n
Texturing and Material Lookdev<\/p>\n
Most of the detail for the skin, clothing, and metal was built directly into the textures rather than handled through the material shader. A more procedural approach could have been more efficient from a production standpoint, but for this project I wanted more direct control over the surfaces. Because of that, I created part of the skin and material detail in ZBrush and then baked it into Normal maps.<\/p>\n
In Substance 3D Painter, I usually start with a base material and gradually add curvature-based wear, AO darkening, color variation, gradients, and microdetail. I did not rely heavily on AO in this project because I already knew the final render would use Path Tracing. At the end, I also used Sharpen to improve the readability of smaller details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whenever possible, I kept elements symmetrical for as long as I could. The legs, helmet, corset, metal claws,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,80045,438,146,85,6453,46,64381,36056,279102,30040,38984,36484],"class_list":["post-616994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-character-art","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-interviews","tag-israel","tag-maya","tag-photoshop","tag-quixel","tag-substance-3d-painter","tag-unreal-engine","tag-zbrush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}