Ofieri and his wares

To start the project I had to create a camera with an image plane in order to adjust the perspective to the concept. Afterwards, it was a matter of getting some stuff into the scene so I could tweak camera focal length and the f/stop. All of this is done inside the Vray physical camera attributes.

After everything is blocked out, I sculpted what needed more detail inside Zbrush such as; clothing, the character, etc. The main character, Saul, needed me to work in high detail to get pores and wrinkles in. I did this with alpha maps and the standard brush set to drag. Afterwards I retopologized the models, and did their UVs. 

Now I chose to work inside Substance Painter. As such I separated the models by texture sets and imported them as .fbx. I got them in groups into Susbtance so things that are similar could be textured at the same time, such as wood, metals, etc.

Finally, I got everything back into Maya to set it up in Vray. First I got the textures in, and after that I matched the lighting with diferent directional lights. When I felt the light matched, I set all the displacement maps made either in Substance or exported directly from Zbrush. After troubleshooting for a while, it was time to render.

When the render was done, I took it to photoshop for some finishin touch ups and it was all set.

I enjoyed this project a lot, specially because I have always been  a big CdRed fan, and the concept I chose came from the game Gwent. So this for me, was kinda like paying homage to the amazin work the studio does.