[Ognyan]

Hi all,

This is a 3D portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu inspired by the original work of the 17th century artist Philippe de Champaigne. My goal was to recreate his work in 3D from scratch and add elements of my own like the detailed chair. I tried to preserve the painterly look of the render by tweaking the textures and lighting. The process started with some very basic meshes created in Maya and then most of the work was done in Zbrush.
For the lace details I painted masks in Zbrush and then used deformations and manual sculpting for the final look. After all this was done I brought the re-topologized meshes back in Maya and rendered with Mental ray.

I would be very happy to hear your thoughts on the final piece.



Here are some screengrabs from Zbrush and a wireframe shot illustrating my workflow and showing the models in detail.

Zbrush:















Wireframe:



Thank you

[spirit3d]

wooooooow great work man..wonderful sculpture, amazing details i like it

[Ognyan]

Thanks a lot! I appreciate it

[HuynhPhuDat]

Really nice work , really good detail .

[Ognyan]

Thanks mate!

[happyfish]

super attractive .The modeling is very awesome and nice .especially the texture and light master is very in place. and the style is unique .it give me a deeply impression .i like it .How long you spend time to finish it?

[angelofernandes]

I must say this work is flawless

if didn't show the wireframe or the model apart it was very dificult to believe that this isn't an illustration.

Wow.

the clothes are awesome, everything is.

Congrats

[reenukamal]

Amazing work ... every think is perfect .. looks like a master piece

[polaroid29]

Nice work man! A lot of love put into those cloth folds

[Helenni]

I can't see any flaw. It's perfect, man.

[Ognyan]

Wow, thank you so much for the kind words guys! I really appreciate it

[CatalinObreja]

awesome details!

[Ognyan]

Thanks mate!