The Blue Project [3D]

droarty · 11-10-2011, 11:14 AM

Hey all, brand new to the forum and I wanted to share a piece I've been working on for a while now.. It's an attempt at a realistic portrait.. It's modeled in Maya and sculpted and painted in Mudbox.. rendered in Vray with a dome light. Hair and face fuzz was done in Shave and rendered separately with Mental Ray.. which was a huge learning curve.. I really wanted to tackle hair as major part of this image and learn from it.. (converted eyelashes and eyebrows to geo.. and added a scar on right side of brow.). and comped/layer adjustments together in PS. Thanks for looking all

pax · 13-10-2011, 01:43 AM

its unbelievable man!!!! cant believe its not real!!!!

your skills are amazing...

great talent...keep it up!!!!

biswakn · 13-10-2011, 10:13 AM

great work.................... full realistic

Diwanshu Gupta · 13-10-2011, 10:54 AM

jaw dropping work must in top row ....

can u plsss share yours tricks for the hair and furs or it,s a request to make a tutorial and share the whole process ....

Thankyou for posting..

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:cl ap:

grvdas · 13-10-2011, 11:27 AM

godly work.....just awesome

Nalini · 13-10-2011, 11:41 AM

Love this post! Very realistic!!

droarty · 14-10-2011, 02:29 AM

Hey guys, thanks for the kind comments!
here are some views of some of the sculpts, and other stuff for the head. I am currently in the process of writing a tutorial right now!

ramukiaj · 16-10-2011, 12:02 AM

super cool!!!!

arsalanali · 16-10-2011, 12:55 PM

it is soo good ... yes i also request u please share ur tips and triks for rendering out hair and fur .. as i render it in v-ray the results are not very great and the render time are too long ..

patrick 3ds world · 16-10-2011, 05:28 PM

jst awesome dude great wrk hat's off to u

droarty · 16-10-2011, 07:16 PM

Hey Thanks guys! the hair by far took the most time (and there are still issues I was wanting to fix)
I used shave & haircut, and created hair off of a cap from the head.. I rendered the hair in Mental Ray and not Vray. I had issues getting it render properly so using Mental ray was easier. From there I tried to model them strand by strand for the most part .. even then it wasn't enough difference.. I ended up duplicating the hair curves into nurbs curves and for the small strands moving them at will as a separate hair spawn. I ended up doing 3 separate lighting passes for the hair.. one for the overall look and shadow (within hair) another completely flat, that I could use to lighten/overlay in PS.. and a shadow matte pass on the rest of geo.. I had issues with occlusion passes and had to just call it quits unfortunately.

Here is another color variation of the image..