Japanese Noh Mask

eskrimador98

Japanese noh mask made with Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Renderman, Nuke, and Affinity Photo. 
Some of the UV seams were glitching pretty bad within Maya (they were fine in Substance) so I had to paint over them in Affinity Photo. Mask has 3 UDIMS, 1 material, and 12 4k textures. The mouth was a pain to retopologize too...

hwaminjung

I thought the first image was the reference Great work!

Phoenix995

looks really good
do you have a ref pic still so we can see how the actual think looks like?

eskrimador98

Phoenix995 said:

looks really good
do you have a ref pic still so we can see how the actual think looks like?

Here ya go! The reference has more of a smooth surface and not as creepy looking, so I aimed for a rough plaster material and dragged the bottom eyelids down as well as sinking the eyes back to add more depth and creepiness.

hwaminjung

Cool, I see now. I do like the variation on hard and soft edges on the original reference image, like around the nose and the eyelids, but that's up to personal preference.

eskrimador98

Blagh, I like it too, but I was having such a hard time in zbrush with that (I usually never use zbrush unless I have rocks or metal objects that need some dents and such). Hopefully after doing some more masks I can get a bit better at getting those hard edges and such.

Phoenix995

i just wanted to say the same thing @hwaminjung said^^ try to recrate the different kind of hard/soft edge look you can see on the mask
i zbrush you can just use the damstandard brush to do this. its pretty easy i would say and it would help the model a lot to look more like the ref! other than that, good job!