Since I watched Death Note I couldn’t stop imagining how Ryuk would look like on a realistic style, and… something different than the life action movies.
So, some time ago I started this proyect on my free time, and ended up becoming on a big oppoirtunity to study and practice workflows. Starting by realism style, I wanted to transfer the Ryuk silly but creepy mood to his visuals, so I explored his anatomy having in mind Marfan syndrome and Kyphosis, giving me nice and interesting shapes to work with. For facial anatomy I had in mind nice actors like Willem Dafoe, whos the voice actor for one of the movies, Steven Tyler and Mick Jagger. All this was a really enjoyable process through ZBrush, working with XYZ maps, Maya, Painter among others. Lastly, I wanted to test the new Unreal Engine 5, so I decided to work with the hair strand system, the layered material system, implementhing custom masking methods and of course Lumen! I really enjoy and learn a lot with this project and I’m so happy to finally share it with you guys!
Wanted to thank to Karen, my partner life for all the support and energy showing me for first time Death Note and also to my colleagues on Teravision Games for the feedback and energy!! /…/,
Extra images and videos on: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/OmvXWb
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