Fencer

Reference Board

I found real life references to capture different details in the concept and also combined elements in different references for inspiration.

Blocking out

First I made sure the body of my character had the desired proportions and then I used Marvelous Designer to block out the clothing so that silhouette of the character could start to form.

Then I used a combination of Zbrush and Maya to add the other elements of the character working between the two programs to get the desired outcome.  Once everything was looking how I wanted I added details in Zbrush.

Retopology and UVs

Once I had everything I spent time to make sure my topology and UVs were right.  I wanted to make sure that my UVs and topology were good so that detailing and texturing would be easier.

Skin Details

I added skin details to the face and hands of the character using by projecting details from a texturingxyz asset in Mudbox.  I cleaned this up in Zbrush and added similar details to the rest of the visible parts of the character's body.

Texturing

I used Substance Painter to texture my character using a combination of procedural tools and hand painting.

Hair

I used hair cards for the character's hair and eyelashes and used texturing for the eyebrows as they are mainly hidden by the character's fringe.  I spent time placing my cards in layers and overlapping in clumps to try to mask the individual cards' edges.

Rendering

I rendered the character in Unreal Engine 5 where I created a scene for the character.

I would like to thank my supervisors and classmates at Think Tank.  I especially wanted to thank my mentor Babak Bina for the feedback and advice he gave during this project.