I thought I would see what I could get Cycles to do in Blender, so I made some new renders of an old character:





Imported into Blender with the auto-setup, rendered in 4k (3840x5760) with adaptive sampling & NLM denoising, shadow terminator offsets & subdivision surfaces. Downscaled to 2k.

Higher res versions on Art Station.

I'm a web developer, not an artist. I've been playing around with Unity for a few years now, but nothing serious (i.e. never released an actual game). I recently had an idea for a project for which I wanted to be able to design my own characters but I haven't the time or patience for something like sculpting in ZBrush or Blender. I'm trying to develop a path of least resistance workflow for art assets into Unity where I have full control (marketplaces are not a consideration here). I spent a lot of time researching before pulling the trigger on the full CC3/iClone package last week and was still a bit apprehensive. As of right now I have only really explored head shaping/texturing, but I didn't expect to achieve these results in only a few days. It should also be pointed out that most of this time was spent learning the software and researching techniques. The hair seems a bit unnatural relative to the fidelity of the face/body, but I have spent zero time on that (just a drag-and-drop from the library). I still have more tweaking to do on the head textures and a lot more of the workflow to explore but so far I am impressed.

1. Headshot + subpar photo (~1.5K & substantial editing)
2. Skin/Nails:  Realistic Human Skin content pack + SkinGen Premium plugin.
2. Hair: Hair Builder content pack
3. Brows/Makeup: Makeup & SFX content pack
4. Rendered in CC3



(Update): Subdivided the hair mesh (still have a few erratic/broken flyaways in places) and evened out the contrast on the head base texture.

Hi, I bought the s/w few days ago and here's what I got so far

some breakdowns are here
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XnkR4w
Thanks