— PROJECT NAME

John Doman Portrait

— ROLE

Modelling, Sculpting, Texturing, Grooming, Lighting, Look Development

— SOFTWARE

Mudbox, zBrush, Maya, Arnold, Marvelous Designer, Mari, XGEN

This is my first digital portrait and tribute to John Doman as Rodrigo Borgia in the Canal+ adaptation, Borgia: Faith and Fear by Tom Fontana. This project was developed under the guidance of my mentor, Peter Zoppi.

Initially I started sculpting the portrait inside zBrush, but quickly moved to Mudbox for several reasons: managing UDIM’s, cameras, materials, brushes, layers, etc. Texturing XYZ VFACE textures were used and transferred to my base mesh.

The cloth was developed inside Marvelous Designer. Look development for the velvet shader was an experimental process. Mostly procedural and tiling textures were utilized for the development of the main velvet shader.