Hi, here`s some production renders of the Breton Knight I did at Blur for the Elder Scrolls Online cinematic, software used is mainly Zbrush, 3d Studio max and Photoshop . Vray and Zbrush bpr for renders.
Cheers,
Ale
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Stunning work as always Ale!, this one is in my vault of the daily “inspiration & respect” folder, one of my favorite CG characters of all time for sure, I just love the natural feel of the model and textures, Kudos to you and keep rocking! 
what can anyone say? simply perfect
Absolutely prime…
Stunning work! (as always… :D)
Cheers,
Selwy
Outstanding work !!!
well done 
I remember this guy, terrific work! 
fantastic work Alessandro, as per usual
Excellent work as usual.
Speechless… Just outstanding work TOP ROW small_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamond
Could share some breakdown of using Zbrush in the process?
Sick Ale!
Great job man
The first render is great.
except…the large chest strap buckle is backwards.
outstanding work! top row for sure!
Hi thanks for the appreciation!
The first Elder Scrolls Online cinematic was finished months ago, but basically the zbrush specific involvement for this type of character can be sum up this way :
In the blocking stage i took care of quickly block out the main elements as separated geometric pieces. We started with very detailed concept designs provided by the client, so the first goal was to quickly assemble all the parts and have something solid in terms of proportions.
Some of these pieces were modeled from scratch in brush, other were coming from out libraries and some others , like the plates of the armor and other hard surface elements were polymodeled in 3d studio max. I brought everything into zbrush and started to play with the proportions and placement of the parts.
Once i was satisfied with the overall proportions i brought back the objs from zbrush to max, to finalize topology for hard surface elements and on those parts that requires cloth simulation.
Once topology and geometry was final i brought it back again into zbrush for a pass of detailing…wrinkles…scratches and all sort of surface enhancement .
For the head we started with some very rough scans of actors chosen by the client. We had to intensively resculpt those geometries in order to match the likeness with the actors and add surface details like pores and wrinkles, based on photoreferences.
When all the sculpting and the surface detailing were in place we rendered sample stills for approval (internal and external), this is a vital stage that we do in zbrush with BPR before proceeding to texturing. Here`s another example of BPR render before texturing on another project :
Ale
Thanks Alot For sharing !! seeing your work always bring joy to my Day
Great job Ale, dig the work on the materials especially. The eyes though feel very feminine to me, I know it’s the default state, but it’s the only thing throwing off the badass’ry’ of the character imo
Cheers!
Love the subtleties of the Breton Knight. The Asymmetry is so convincing he looks real. The nose being slightly crooked (which you would expect with a warrior or knight), and the eyes both slightly different, to even the small and slight smirk and serious mouth is incredible 
small_orange_diamond. He is also very gorgeous for sure :o Love it.
I have to wonder how heavy that armor/outfit is and how bad he must chafe lol just kidding.
Happy ZBrushing!
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Thanks a lot for the breakdown process
this face has soul in it, looks like portrait more than cg art…
an extraordinary achievement
