Agent Kruger (Desert) Breakdown

Original post :
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lDy4lY
Game Artist article :
https://gamesartist.co.uk/agent-kruger/
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LRnR2k

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22 materials
219.6k tris

Softwares :
-ZBrush, Marvelous Designer, Maya for modeling (95% of the modeling was done in ZBrush; only the pants and the corps’s cloth were made in Marvelous Designer, with some hard surface pieces in Maya (subd))
-Maya for Retopo and UVs
-Substance Painter
-Marmoset for baking
-Unreal for the final render
-Davinci Resolve for post-process
-Photoshop for various tasks and post-process
-Xgen Legacy

For a more indepth breakdown (UE5 Lookdev,Texturing, Xgen, Modeling, Camera, Lighting...), check out the Game Artist article : https://gamesartist.co.uk/agent-kruger/

The [EYES] are simply the 3 metahuman eye materials : lacrimal, eyeball and ao

Descriptions : 3 beard - 1 eyebrow - 1 eyelashes - 1 fuzz - 5 hair

Overall texture breakdown

Anchor + Stencil based

Dirt layers breakdown

Face timelapse

Main reference

Posing "timelapse"

"Post-post-process" breakdown

Foreground and background blurs were introduced in every renders to convey a sense of depth. This was generated 100% in Unreal using the camera by adjusting the depth of field and focus plane settings. So no post process for this.

Scan cleaning and sculpting steps

I just noticed how messed up the neck skin was.. Fortunatly the t-shirt was covering it

Little rework of the high poly shoulders pads I did. I started with zBrush "Dynamic" cloth simulation then refined by sculpting.