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Mariia Hunenko

3D character artist

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Project: Draconic Lady - Posing

Concept: @arttasysworld

I actually finished this step back in May but never got to posting it because I have had a pretty big life project I have been working on. Now it's mostly sorted I can get back to finishing this off!

For posing I actually experimented with a couple of new tools like Mixamo and Maya's quick rig, but in the end they more than what I needed to pose her for just a still render. So I went back to what I knew, just builiding a basic rig, which was quick and got the job done.

I always do love the posing stage, it's when I feel like a model actually starts to take on life, I got really excited at this point as she was really coming together.

To move the bulk of the hair I just used a latice deformer and then manually adjusted indivdual hair strands into the position that I wanted. Making sure to keep an eye on the camera view so it would look as close to the concept as possible.

She is now ready for the final stage! I have been hanging to get into Unreal for so long now, but maybe the delay was a good thing. I have seen a bunch of new YouTube tutorials come out for exactly what I want to do so that's going to be handy.

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Zoé Brening

Student @ThinkTankOnline

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Project: Draconic Lady - Test Render

Concept: @arttasysworld

So I have become kind of stuck, frustrated, not sure where I am headed with the breakup and flyaways stage.

I started to realise through the process that I had probably made both the strands and the actual hair chunks too thick with not enough variation or clumps within the actual cards. Placing any of my "flyaway" cards without them starting to cover up the cards underneath was proving really hard to do. They also just weren't looking light or fluffy to me like I felt they should. I also just wasn't sure how the hair line was looking and just overall a bit lost on what to do.

I realised a lot of my concern was coming from not being sure if it was actually looking any good, possibly from staring at it for too long.

So I decided to try and do a test render. Initially I thought I might jump ahead and get into unreal to see how it was looking, often I find when you're learning something new a lot of doubt comes from being unsure of the next stage. But after opening UE, looking at a couple of tuts I just kinda noped outta that idea. It was definitely going to take too long to learn how to get her in there, which would ultimately push finishing the hair out further.

And. I Just. Want. It. Done.

So I decided to just set up the Arnold shaders and see how that turned out. I realise Arnold is going to look different to UE but the purpose is to push me forward and see what I can do with the cards I have. Like am I just being pedantic or can I just make this work and get it done?

The first problem of course was that the Albedo was super desaturated, which I had noticed when creating the texture maps. I have no idea why this was and I wasn't going back to figure it out so I just adjusted the levels in photoshop.

Once I was happy with the colour I was glad to see that it wasn't looking too bad and rendering it definitely gave me the perspective I needed to see what I need to do next.

I did a bit of a draw over, identifying what needed to be done:

The left side hairline line isn't too bad, I think I can just add some transitional pieces

Right side needs work: It's too far back and needs to be filled out underneath some more.

The entire thing needs to have loose, single strands that don't all flow with the overall shape and hide/breakup those flatter pieces on top

Lots of fluffy, flyaway, curly bits near the ears and caught on the horns

Now I think I am ready to just get this shit knocked over.

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Warlock Real-Time Character

Felt like sharing some old artwork. I created this as an entry for some online art competition back in 2020. The character concept was done by me, and from sculpting to texturing pretty much everything was made with Blender.