Kylo Ren Fan Art - Bust

chaselt

Hey everyone!

Been sitting on this for a while and I'm trying to finish this guy up in the next coming weeks.

So here is where I am as of now.








I've got some tertiary detail down, and started sculpting his neck thing and cape (super rough atm).

I'd love to hear your thoughts on what could different/better to really push this!

Thank you!

chaselt

Not a big update but I wasn't liking how the lighting came out before.

So here are the same shots with better lighting.



As always, let me know what you think!

chaselt

Ok... last lighting update... I promise...........



Next update will be a real one...

Crits welcome!

chaselt

I think I'm all set with skin detail and the face overall, might tweak a couple things here and there but for the most part I'm calling that done.

Changed the design of the neck thing. I think it's more accurate to his actual costume. Still working on it and the cloak/hood. The clothing will hopefully be done soon and then I can move on to hair stuff for final high res renders before moving on to substance painter/making this real time friendly.



Let me know your thoughts!

slosh

I think it would be nice to get varying spec.  his skin feels a bit shiny and the cloth pieces could be far more matte.  hair would go a long way as well.

chaselt

@slosh - Thank you for the feedback! True true, I definitely agree. I threw on a relatively simple material for these shots but I should tweak those values like you said for future iterations.

chaselt

Finally found some more time to work on this guy.

I've been tackling the textures and setting up some render settings.

I think the lack of hair (especially eyebrows and eyelashes) is throwing this off but I've been messing with the textures as much as I can in the mean time.

I'm getting to a place where I am liking the skin but do feel there are still tweaks to be made.

Parts of the eyes are still bothering me.

And I'm not happy with the cloth at the moment and am definitely going to fix it soon.

Are there any any immediate things that you would change, tweak, or add? Please let me know you thoughts!

chaselt

Some slight edits.

chaselt

Calling this on done!

This was quite the learning experience! I set out on this project with the goals of tackling likeness, making more realistic skin and eye textures/shaders, and learning to work with xgen to create better looking hair. I'm pretty pleased with the results and definitely feel like I've advanced in those areas.



High res renders can be found on my ArtStation - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JlOEwd

I'm excited to further these skills in my next project!


Let me know what you think! (Any thoughts/critiques welcome)

HixaLupa

It looks really awesome! Congrats!

chaselt

@HixaLupa - Thank you so much!

Ying

He looks fantastic! I think you nailed the likeness and I like the very slight stylization. Congrats.

Kgizzi

Looks good. How did you get those fuzzy atmospheric shapes into the render, is that just photoshop afterwards? If so do you have any breakdowns or tutorials for how to do it? Thanks.

chaselt

@Ying - Thank you so much!!

@Kgizzi - Thank you! As far as breakdowns/tutorials for that effect, I do not Perhaps sometime in the future! Hopefully I can explain it effectively enough right now (it is a pretty easy effect). It is something I do in Photoshop after I render. So I just Google search things like "dust" and "dust particles," I put whatever images I've gathered on top of the renders and if they are colored for some reason I make them black and white. Then I mess with the mid values of the dust images in Levels in order to get rid of pretty much all of the grey values so that the images only really has white values (the dust) and black values (the background). I then set the dust layer(s) to Screen so only the white values (dust) are visible. After that I'll throw some Gaussian Blur on (depending on how far back in the image I want it to look like it is) and mess with the Opacity. If this is still too confusing I can do up a breakdown soon haha

Kgizzi

@chaselt Thanks a lot man yea I've tried that in the past but I didn't think of a few of those techniques so I'll try them myself, and yea do a break down please!

chaselt

@Kgizzi - I put this together, I hope it helps! https://www.artstation.com/chaselterman/blog/or1g/dustparticle-tutorial-photoshop

Kgizzi

chaselt said:

@Kgizzi - I put this together, I hope it helps! https://www.artstation.com/chaselterman/blog/or1g/dustparticle-tutorial-photoshop

That's beautiful man thanks a lot I'm gonna try it with a render I've just done, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks a lot

chaselt

@Kgizzi - Awesome, I look forward to it and no worries

Kgizzi

Ok so this was my crack at it. https://polycount.com/discussion/209717/greyscale-head-render#latest

I'm sort of trying to get those weird bleachy bits in the background that Tom Newbury gets in some of his renders if you've seen his. You guys are both way better at photoshop than me though so any suggestions would help. Thanks again for the break down, that was nice of you.

purehilarity

Excellent!

chaselt

@purehilarity - thank you

chaselt

Altered the lighting a bit.