REALISTIC GAME MODEL
Okri the Slayer
One of my favourite fantasy races, if not the most, it has always been and will always be the Dwarves.
Okri initially began as a face study, but my interest and passion quickly evolved it into a full character design. I happily gifted him with the proper weapons and the muscle mass to wield them, honouring his name.
The beard is a very distinctive facial feature, but it's particularly special when it comes to Dwarves. Aware of this, I worked through an in-depth exploration of Hair-cards.
I experimented with various approaches, revisiting and refining the facial hair on multiple occasions to make further improvements.
One of the main challenges was to make it visually credible and for that I found that placing micro details of skin and other textures on the highpoly model rather than in the later texture itself was the right call.
Maintaining a reasonable polycount was certainly another challenge I had to face knowing that the hair cards were going to significantly add to the total amount.
