Lifelike 3D Portrait of Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer Made in ZBrush

Take a look at this stunning photorealistic portrait of Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's eponymous movie created by a Character, Creature, and Asset Artist Tomas Sackmann.

The recreation was sculpted in ZBrush, modeled in Maya, and textured using Substance 3D Painter and Texturing XYZ. LookDev was completed in Arnold. The artist perfectly captured the actor's appearance, skillfully visualizing skin details, eyes, and outfit details.

Before, the artist joined 80 Level and talked in detail about his ultra-realistic cinematic portrait made primarily in ZBrush, Substance Painter, Mari, and V-Ray:

Also, take a look at this take on Cillian Murphy created by Character Artist Eugene Tertychnyi:

3D Artist Chung Jui Lee shared his approach to recreating the actor's character from Peaky Blinders and discussed his skin creation workflow in ZBrush and Substance Painter and hair generation in XGen:

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