Seekers of Skyveil: Zuraya
As part of Elodie Games ArtBlast campaign, sharing 3D and visDev work I did for Zuraya, the Windglaive! She was one of the first Seekers i started working on back in 2021, following fantastic concept art work done by Natalie Pellmann https://www.artstation.com/foxcrusade
This kind of R&D is done for each new player character we create. First iterations are mostly quick blockout models and overpaints, following by game proxies and final art. Read picture descriptions for more info.
Shoutout to:
Billy, my lead
Sean-Paul, our art director
Banks, THE boss!
Stay tuned for more art drops tomorrow!
Meet Zuraya! This is her current look.
This was the original vision of Windglaive hero character
Face and hair exploration by Natalie, very early on
Some more cool headgear ideas from Nat.
More refined headgear design.
First sketches in zbrush
Trying to capture the personality here.
Last image before she was redesigned. Really tried to push for interesting cowl shapes here to frame the face.
Updated Wind Glaive design from Natalie, everything is overhauled, but it's a good change, she looks very fun now
Natalies overpaint over a model for hair design,
Updated base model.
Windglaive was supposed to be our average female body type, to build rigs and prototype shared animations.
Decimated blockout model.
Using this framer matcap sometimes to help with cleaning up the surface
Some Zbrush turnarounds. Making lots of these along the way, helps with art direction.
Whitebake render in Marmoset Toolbag
Test texture lookdev in Marmoset
Decimated proxy model with baked colors
Highpoly WIP
Final highpoly
Body anatomy, base undergarment
Final highpoly
Posed proxy in th engine - shows vertex colors that were baked in Zbrush
Baked lightmaps.
Different channels shown in substance, masks used for various shader effects and colorization.
Final textured model rendered in Marmoset.
Different color setups in UE. Colors are done with shader and color curves.
Final look of custom color themes that are being created with UE shaders.
Different material properties for different color themes.,
This is the updated design of Zuraya (not the latest). Posed Zbrush model, rendered in Marmoset Toolbag.
We also using these for promo art and UI portraits.
This is it, check back later, I might add more renders and info. Thanks for watching!