Reckoners Fanart - Megan Tarash

Justo

Hi PC! Happy to finally post this personal project I've been working on for a while now, a fan art of Megan Tarash, from Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners books. I've heard the audiobooks by Macleod Andrews so many times now and every time I listened I thought I had to make a little tribute to this amazing world and characters!

More pics and breakdowns: ArtStation - Reckoners Fanart - Megan, Justo Figueroa Ruiz

The goal was to create a realistic character using some of the newer tools out there, such as rendering XGen hair in UE. It was really challenging but the joy of seeing how far this has come since the beginning is great. For the next realistic character I make I'd like to work on something with more microdetail in the skin, and a more dramatic expression.

Sculpted in Zbrush & some hardsurface elements modeled in Blender, all the cloth parts were simulated in Marvelous Designer, UVs with RizomUV, textured in Substance Painter, grooming in XGen, postprocess in Photoshop.

Rendered in UE5.3...Hope you like it!

Justo

Banner added! 

iam717

I know you didnt ask for anything but i felt this could help, some very small changes

smalleditsIMG

very cool though just a touch more and it will be more epic, i know nothing bout this design.

Face looks more natural to me like this, the inner brows coming down slightly and the snarled side eye inner tear duct coming up slightly a little more nose action and a touch of more upper lip action.

Justo

Hi @iam717 , thank you for your input! I definitely considered adding a little more aggressiveness into her face, but in the end decided not to. Maybe after some time I'll look at this again and find that it needs an extra push in that direction. Thank you for taking the time to give me your thoughts on it, it's really appreciated! 

Eric Chadwick

Bannered! (I thought your first image made a better banner btw). Congrats on the finish!

Gotta refresh/update the banners lol!