Tanya Riarey

One of my personal works that was inspired by a beautiful illustration by Lina Kit. I wanted to create a fully hand-painted model with multiple texture sets and go through all the stages to produce a game-ready 3D character (without rigging). I started in Blender, blocking out the basic shapes using Lina Kit's concept art as a reference. Then I moved to ZBrush and sculpted everything. I decided to use dynamesh for most of the shapes as I wanted to experiment more with sculpting and not rely on my initial blocking-out topology. When I was happy with the high poly, I did manual retopology in Maya and separated the model into three parts. I used RizomUV to create UVs for every part. I then baked all main maps in Marmoset - I really like how easy it’s to manually adjust the cage for each object and generally prefer it to Painter for its cleaner results. After baking, I set up the low-poly model in Substance Painter, assigned all the maps, and created a base for hand-painting using smart masks, generators, and baked everything onto albedo map. For the final step, I imported textures from Substance into 3D-Coat and hand-painted all details. I used Cycles in Blender for all preview renders.

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Real-Time Model on Artstation