Artificer Dwarf

- The dwarf artificer -

Dive into the world of fantasy with this portrait featuring a dwarf artificer. Through this creation, I aimed to breathe life into an iconic character from fantastical mythology, adding a touch of uniqueness.

This was an incredibly enjoyable project and marked one of my first fully realized sculpts in ZBrush. Creating this portrait has deepened my familiarity with ZBrush, taking me from the initial sculpting phase to the fine-tuning of micro-details

Responsible for all assets, modeling-lighting in maya, sculpt and displacement map made in Zbrush, texturing in Substance Painter, groom with Xgen, and shading in Arnold . It's my own concept.

The biggest challenge on this project was to give emotion and personality to my creature. I wanted him to have something atypical, almost cartoonish.

I wanted us to feel the character's liabilities, his history.

I've made a lot of progress on Zbrush thanks to this project.

I was able to establish a workflow, get a very solid base of sculpting before learning to add all those skin details.

Texturing the skin with substance was also a real learning experience. I had to remain subtle in all these micro details of color, to give the skin a slightly aged look.