Ria: real-time character exploration

In : 2021

For : Personal Portfolio

I Was : 3D Generalist

I Did : Modeling, Texturing, shading, lighting, rigging, and compositing

I Used : Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Photoshop, Marmoset Toolbag, Marvelous Designer, xNormal

Rendered with : Unreal Engine 4

Meet Ria. She is a 17-year-old Brooklynite, living in a 5th-floor walkup apartment with her chubby cat Tiger. She recently inherited this tiny apartment from her late estranged grandmother, who had a rather very eccentric life.

Ria is a character I have been working on during my spare time. The goal was to practice my character creation skills and to create a short real-time animation with her.

I will be continuously tweaking and changing her as I develop more skills but here is what she currently looks like.

Final Renders

Breakdowns

Wireframes

Hair Cards

I made a wide variety of hair cards to quickly place them along the hairline to create natural-looking hair.

Look Development

Face Texture

Ria had a total of 2 texture sheets, one for the face and one for the body. Her skin texture combines procedural skin materials from Substance Painter and hand-painted work.

Early Experiements

This is an early version of this character with XGEN real-time hair for UE4. The hair was very performance-heavy, so I switched to a polygon-based style.

Ria: real-time character exploration

Final Renders

Breakdowns

Wireframes

Look Development

Early Experiements