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Another digital human portrait finished! It started with a low poly CC3 base mesh with a lot of sculpting in Zbrush. The low poly mesh doesn't hold any subtle forms of a face so I had to spend some time studying facial anatomy while trying to sculpt all that. This time I used reference photos from 3d.sk during the sculpting process. When I achieved enough likeness I started deliberately to deviate from the reference to create a unique person that doesn't exist.

I spend a great deal of time working on the eyes. I had to use a physically correct eye model to get good enough results. But to my surprise the eyelids also played a big role in getting it to look right. And they change a lot depending on where the eyes are looking.

The model was sculpted in an A-pose and all the details were baked in Zbrush. Speaking of details, the high frequency detail such as skin pores were sculpted using CGsphere skin alphas. For the skin texture I used the base CC3 texture which I refined in Substance Painter. A few details were also projected from the original reference to a color map.

The low poly model was then posed in CC3 and the clothes were added there too. Then the model was exported to Maya where the details were brought back using the baked displacement maps. Hair, eyelashes, eyebrow, and peach fuzz were done using Xgen. Lighting was done using two environment maps and one area light. One environment map was for the overall lighting, and the other was there to get better reflections from the eyes and also to act as a fill light. The area light also acted as a subtle fill light.

Everything was rendered in Arnold and the final touch up was done in Photoshop.

Description

Another digital human portrait finished! It started with a low poly CC3 base mesh with a lot of sculpting in Zbrush. The low poly mesh doesn't hold any subtle forms of a face so I had to spend some time studying facial anatomy while trying to sculpt all that. This time I used reference photos from 3d.sk during the sculpting process. When I achieved enough likeness I started deliberately to deviate from the reference to create a unique person that doesn't exist.

I spend a great deal of time working on the eyes. I had to use a physically correct eye model to get good enough results. But to my surprise the eyelids also played a big role in getting it to look right. And they change a lot depending on where the eyes are looking.

The model was sculpted in an A-pose and all the details were baked in Zbrush. Speaking of details, the high frequency detail such as skin pores were sculpted using CGsphere skin alphas. For the skin texture I used the base CC3 texture which I refined in Substance Painter. A few details were also projected from the original reference to a color map.

The low poly model was then posed in CC3 and the clothes were added there too. Then the model was exported to Maya where the details were brought back using the baked displacement maps. Hair, eyelashes, eyebrow, and peach fuzz were done using Xgen. Lighting was done using two environment maps and one area light. One environment map was for the overall lighting, and the other was there to get better reflections from the eyes and also to act as a fill light. The area light also acted as a subtle fill light.

Everything was rendered in Arnold and the final touch up was done in Photoshop.