(Finished) Vincent - Witcher/Gwent Fan Art

Mimir

Hey peeps, I'm working on a real-time character from the Witcher universe. I think the concept art in Gwent is terrific and decided to create a character based on a card - Vincent van Moorlehem. I've also decided to use the likeness of Lalo Salamanca played by Tony Dalton from Better Call Saul which may have been the inspiration for the concept art created by Ivan Vilmant.

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I've started with a head scan, hence why it has textures.

Mimir

Added some of the accessories but still missing some stuff like the keys and gloves. As his boots aren't in the concept art I decided to pick a design from a website that sold medieval, tried to pick a design that was a bit elegant to fit his aristocratic character.

Retopologized the clothing, currently 10k polys. Bottom half of trousers is squished due to it colliding with the boots, will delete these bits when I retopo the boots.

Mimir

Decided to pose the high poly to see how the arms and hands would bend to match the concept art (though currently its a bit lower). I've finished creating the low poly and will start doing bake tests for the clothing soon.

waruta

I don't know who the character is, but I like your sculpt so far! Good job on the face.

Mimir

waruta said:

I don't know who the character is, but I like your sculpt so far! Good job on the face.

Thanks! I presume most people won't know as he is only in the card game Gwent and not in the Witcher games.

Mimir

Texturing first pass, 91k tris. 

Mimir

I received critique on my previous character to make the eyebrows using hair cards instead of relying solely on texture, so I decided to do that for Vincent. As I'm following the likeness of Tony Dalton, I'm going to use his hair style as reference for Vincent, so it won't be the same as the concept art. 


The hair is still in block-out stage which is why it looks...blocky :¬] I think I need to remove the strands of grey on the hair card I used, as I'm going to add variation with other cards. 


I'm using a 2k hair sheet that I created using X-Gen for anyone wondering. (Rendered in Marmoset Toolbag)

Mimir

I've temporarily stopped working on the hair to focus on the likeness of Tony Dalton, still not happy with it but I'm getting closer.

Mimir

Update on the likeness, I'm using a photo to project his face. I need to revaluate/retexture to keep all that information which was getting lost in previous versions.

Mimir

Another update (Looks like I've lost some of that wrinkle detail that was on the previous update, I'll fix that on my next post)

Mimir

Update on character head and hair.

Mimir

Finally finished. Artstation link: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lxZ0Qz