Heimdall

                                                            Heimdall

Reference board. There are never enough of them, the challenging part with reference board is to stop trying to find new pictures :)

Blocking was done in Zbrush. For High Poly i used Zbrush, and for hard surface pieces i used Maya.

I started the head sculpt from a sphere, then used the ZWrap tool to apply the mesh head from Texturring XYZ. For skin pore details i used VFace texture pack from Texturring XYZ.   

One of the interesting aspects of this project was creating ornaments.
In order to make them, I made a base for the armor with UV, after which I used a script to make this base flat using UV. Next, I made ornaments on the flat surface. After which, using the same script, I returned the base, along with the ornaments, to its original form. After which I made the final adjusments in Zbrush
The same workflow i used to create leather armor.

For all fabric and wrap pieces, i used Marvelous Designer. After Marvelous I export all garment in Maya for retopology, then Zbrush for sculpting and details.

For another parts work flow was basic. Base mash in Maya, Zbrush for sculpting and details. 

Retopology i did in Topogun.
UV in Rizom UV.
For baking I used the Marmoset Toolbag 4.

For texturing i used Substance Painter.

Example how i approach texturing

For hair and fur cards i used GS Curve Tool in maya and hair texture i did in Fibershop 

I rendered the character in Marmoset Toolbag 4 with Ray Tracing. The character was posed In Zbrush using Transpose Master.

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