Dracula bust

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This is a personal project I've been working on over the last few weeks in my spare time. I wanted to do a bust of Dracula as the classic Bram Stoker,Victorian gent. A strange, captivating visitor from the East. I'm going for a very chiseled, stylised look. I loved the art style in Dishonoured so I guess that's my inspiration to do something similar. All sculpted in Zbrush.



More work in progress shots on my blog.
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Muzzoid

That's really cool man. I dig. Really solid facial planes here.

redbranch

Thanks Muzz. Glad you like it.

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Here is the final textured game res Dracula bust. Hi res sculpt in Zbrush (see earlier post) re-top in Zbrush and Max. Rendered using VRay in Max.
The goal with this personal project was to make a stylised, non-photo realistic character. There are no photo sourced textures on this chap. It's all scratch painted.
I wanted the texture to look realistic, but also have a painted quality that would make people wonder if the render was a 2D painting.
I gathered ref for Victorian clothing to see how a gent would style himself and tried to get the variation of materials on his clothing, incorporating silks, felt etc plus embroidered patterns (in the styles that were fashionable then).
The bust is just over 15k tris all in.

circle of friends

I think it looks good but I would personally go WAY less dark on the hair and I'd blend it in a lot more. Like grey or yellowing hair on an old person almost looks translucent where it meets the skin. You have a fantastic sculpt that I feel is getting totally lost under huge blocky hair.

Jeffrotull

love the style

redbranch

A shot of the back of him here too:

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A side shot and wires here: