Stunning 3D Portrait of a Character from The Walking Dead

3D Character Artist Yosef Abbas unveiled this captivating portrait of Daryl Dixon, a beloved character of The Walking Dead. The artwork is a personal interpretation of the character, with the likeness of an actor Norman Reedus.

According to artist, with this project, he tried to improve his skills in facial detailing, clothing design, grooming, and overall presentation. Yosef Abbas provided a breakdown of crafting the portrait and outlined the main workflow stages. Thus, for sculpting, the creator used ZBrush; for the skin details, he utilized Texturing XYZ as a base and then sculpted additional details by hand to approach the maximum likeness, also using polypaint to adjust and balance the facial tones.

As for the outfit, Yosef Abbas used Marvelous Designer and Maya for retopology and UV mapping. Then, the clothes were detailed in ZBrush and textured in Substance 3D Painter. Such elements of the outfit as the gloves and Salomon boots were sculpted in ZBrush, retopologized in Maya, and textured in Substance 3D Painter, and the intricate shoelaces were made using Marvelous Designer, then later refined and integrated into the boot mesh inside ZBrush.

Hair was crafted using XGen's texture maps. Also, the creator additionally used Photoshop for adjusting certain texture maps and creating custom alpha maps. The final rendering was completed with Marmoset Toolbag.

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