Star Trek: Discovery's Saru [fanart]

ILYA

I am a big fan of Doug Jones. His Saru is the best alien charcter of the Star Trek: Discovery so far.

I have finished modeling of the main shapes  and now im moving on to surface details, uv and bakes.

would love to hear some crits

Here is my references and first zbrush renders.

ILYA

Portrait.

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And just for fun 

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The uniform. Normal and color texture test.

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Head micro details pass.

ILYA

Skin shader lookdev stage. Very simple setup, no sss layers, even no gloss/rough, only the bump map and one color texture.
Actually i want to make it both - in cinematic and real time format. I think  i can share about 90% of my assets between them.
Here is the Al sss shader rendered in vray. For realtime ill take sweet Paragon skin shader. Had pleasure to use it recently.

GSH

Hey! Nice model, I like it. Do you use displacement for the head?

ILYA

Thank you ) Yeah, a bit of displacement blended with normalmap.

CeriseAsCherry

Really cool sculpt! The shading part is also looks good for the skin, however I think that you can push the eyes texturing a bit further, don't know if it's because he's alien, but there is something odd with the eyes and his look. Apart for that good job! Keet it up

ILYA

Hey, Jeremy.  You are absolutely right, his eyes are completly non human, probably something reptiles related.
I am still looking for good combination of shape, specularity and coloration for them.

ILYA

Here is my guy, side by side with Photorealistic Demo Character inside UE. 
Only 3500 tris,  i have to add more polys to the top part of the head. Eyes are still off, i`m working on them.
Funny to see how it looks  better than prerendered one, and i have 120 frames per second, versus 1 frame per 600 seconds using Vray.
Unreal rocks 

ILYA

Finally i`ve got some time for this project. Working on the small piece of environment from the Discovery. 



and the reference shot

GSH

Veeery nice! Cinematic quality here!

Kingdan97

Your sculpt looks pretty tops, I would consider bringing down the brightness/saturation on the univorm though, they’re blue but they’re definitely not 0, 0, 255 blue like yours seem to be. I would also say looking at direct color reference that your gold looks a bit more reflective than it should, or maybe you’re not using the proper hsv values for gold and it’s throwing off my eye.

Still though the head looks fantastic.

ILYA

Thank you Kingdan. I didn`t grade my textures yet, so colours and values are not correct.

FreneticPonies

Great head!

NikhilR

Lovely work! 

ILYA

I think im probably done with high poly version.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1d0Qe

UE 4 model is still in wip stage.

ILYA

Realtime version.

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Model available for free on sketchfab.