How to Make Realistic Characters in ZBrush and Maya (2)

The best render farm Fox Renderfarm still shares with you the post about how to make realistic characters in ZBrush and Maya from 3D artist Yi Chen, and this is part two. Yi Chen showed us the workflow of his latest realistic female character. Software used includes ZBrush, Maya, Mari, Substance Painter, Xgen, Arnold, etc. About part one, please click How to Make Realistic Characters in ZBrush and Maya (1).

Texturing

After the high polygon model was carved, I re-split the model's UVS into 6 UVIDs and changed it to 4K accuracy. This step is mainly to draw textures in Substance Painter and also to ensure that the high-poly displacement details will not be lost in the final rendering. If you are using Mari to draw textures, then I recommend using 2 sheets of 8K accuracy.

Before using Substance Painter to paint colors, we can still use Zwrap to use some scanned model textures as background colors to improve work efficiency, and then further describe the colors and details of various areas of the face based on it. In this step, I drew the Base Color, Specular, and Thinkness maps. The Thickness map will be used as the weight map of the SSS skin to locally control the intensity of the skin subsurface scattering.

Please look forward to the process of material setting and lighting rendering next time. Thank you for watching.

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