Hi everyone,
in the last days I’ve been working on this new sculpt, trying to be as close as possible to a bust made by Jordu Schell… I’m sure anyone here knows him 
The original sculpt could be found here for comparison.
The likeness is not 100% accurate but I’m pretty happy with the final result.
Hope you like it!
[attach=164939]calaracian_web.jpg[/attach]
[attach=164940]calaracian_shaded.jpg[/attach]
C&C are welcome 
Thanks,
Fede
Very cool work! I like the textures… Keep rocking!
Best regards, Selwy
Amazing! i love the textures!! fantastic job and the likeness is awesome
You did good with the likeness. Your beauty render blows me away though! Is that Max’s mental ray? Or are you using something else for your renders?
Amazing work!
The red lips are a little strange. And the blue markings look like acrylic paint on skin, not the actual color of blue skin. I hope that makes sense.
tutorial please??
excellent work. and very nice render.
Great work, I look forward to seeing more.
love the render! 
Regards M.
Very nice work! I recognized it immediately! Very close to the original.
Great work!
Thanks a lot for the kind comments to everyone!
@selwy: hey man, how’re you? hope everything’s well 
Thank you, I’m working hard to get better 
@Kayp: Thank you, I used Max + Vray for this one since I know this render engine quite well due to some boring interior renders 
@nerveink: thanks mate, I will put toghether some wip stages and write down something about the workflow soon
Many thanks to everyone else!
Fede
As promised, here some more info about the project.
I started from a very simple basemesh, though the final piece was already decided (since it’s based on an existent finished piece) I wanted to try a more “traditional” approach working out a rough base.
The trick described by Scoot Spencer in his tutorial about video blur helped me very much during the beginning since almost the final detailing: when it’s matter to be accurate you don’t want to focus on details and blurring the viewport let you see shapes and volumes in a more vague way helping you to concentrate more on what is really important.
I used mainly the move and the rake brush, mostly in the first stages; later I used clay brush and standard to smooth out everything and to finish the piece.
[attach=165024]calaracian_wipStep.jpg[/attach]
I then posed the bust and used Decimator Master to export a 8% version of my sculpt.
Once in max I used a very simple light setup with two Vray lights: one used as a big diffusor from a side and the other to fill the shadow areas.
[attach=165025]max_lightSetup.jpg[/attach]
I used a vray material with the following settings and maps:
[attach=165026]vraymat_settings.jpg[/attach]
[attach=165027]maps.jpg[/attach]
Hope this could be usefull!
Fede
cool work , love your style
great stuff!
Great Job Man !!!
awsome!! thank you so much dude. very helpful!
that is frigging gorgeous! Are you still using 3.1? I can’t get decimation master to work in 3.5 R2
Thanks for the behind the scenes. I’ll have to get more serious about Vray one of these days. Again, great work!