I love this-- are you modeling and rendering the stuff in the environment also? Did you touch up the portrait to give it that pixelated look? This makes me want a new Xcom game so hard
except the 500D shoots 1080p video, if that matters to you (it's been great for me). Just got my 50mm prime for xmas and have been loving the portraits over the last couple of days.
Agreed with everyone, the face feels very realistic, after you finish your character, you could try some subsurface scattering on a portrait render of the head to get a life-like render.
nice work! you should play with different roughness or gloss levels and your next project should be a bust, a portrait of someone whose face has a lot of character, someone really intersting! :)
Hey I found this site and I just wanted to share it it's pretty insane the pictures: http://www.robophot.com/portraits/ example: If anyone else know any other sites with images of this quality please tell.