Gu's Mage

I am thrilled to share my final project for the foundation at think tank training centre. I want to thank especailly my supervisor Derrick Sesson for all the feedback. I loved recreating this concept art of guweiz during those 5 weeks. 

I started by matching the camera and perspective with a maya's basemesh and some cylinders. After roughly lining it up, I started adding more details. I had to jump between Zbrush and Maya to see if the model would line up. After finally having the face in the right spot, I broke the symmetry and posed my character. With the posing done it was time to jump into marvelous designer and start with the clothing. Those were brought into Zbrush for better adjustment to the concept. Since I had never touched CG hair or xgen before it was time to learn in those few given days. I am really glad how they turned out, eventhough I wish I had more time to refine them. The texturing was done in Mari. I used the vFace from TexturingXYZ and some hand painting for the make-up. The see-through look the frills and mesh top were handled through the shader's opacity channel. After I had my textures close enough I started adding more lights and getting closer to finishing line. With little time left I rendered my final scene in v-ray and brought it into nuke to finish off the piece.