Zombie skin workflow problem

sylvg_art

Hi everyone. I'm a 3d art student and I got stuck with my showreel project. So I'm sculpting a model based on a painting where the main character is a zombie-like woman on a zombie horse. So the problem I have is that there is a lot of hanging skin, holes in the body and other skin details and I don't know how to approach this.

So in the final render I wanted to make the skin moving the wind. Should I sculpt every detail in ZBrush and retopo in Maya, can it be done with just a displacement or with Substance Designer, or is there any other way that would be the best in this situation?
Thanks!

Eric Chadwick

Cool project! Both those approaches could work for the highpoly source to bake from. Depends on your skill levels with sculpting, vs. with procedural mixing. I suspect sculpting, including alphas, would be the quickest. Good procedural mixing is easy to start but difficult to master. For realistic hanging folds on the highpoly, a cloth sim could really help.

sylvg_art

 I think I feel more confident with sculpting as I used ZBrush for a couple of years now when I've just started learning Substance Designer. I will experiment in Substance in free time but I want to get the results as fast as possible so I'll go with ZBrush first. Thank you !