John Singer Sargent
Finally finished my latest character project, a likeness of american painter John Singer Sargent.
In total, around 140 hours of work went in to this, sculpting up from a sphere and slowly grinding my teeth at each part of the pipeline, but i'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.
A lot of the time was spent on eye research, which I will be sharing in much more detail at some time in the future!
Much of the work for this project was done live on stream, a playlist for the videos can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFiUVaUQBj807a_U-sbMfH63kMOek9iQl
I'd like to thank The Foundry for providing licences for Mari, Katana, and Nuke for me to work with. I would also like to thank 3d scan store for providing me with the displacement I used for the skin details, that was much appreciated!
Thanks for reading :)
LightingA:
Going for the general tone of his 1907 self portrait (Not matched)
LightingB:
Smoke done using volume displacement in arnold from a duplicate of the coat. The were merged in nuke to save render times
LightingC:
Going for a flash photo effect
Wireframe
Skin colour map and UVs
Final sculpt for the project
Sculpt for the iris stroma
The iris is constructed from 3 geos. The first is the coloured stroma which renders as a volume, second is the back of the iris which can normally only been seen n the border with the pupil, and the 3rd is a set of groom curves to mimic muscle fibers
Wires and guides
Nuke graph for the final presentation renders
Overall Katana layout for the project
