Character Bust – Likeness – Stefania

Personal portfolio project. I’m working at improving my likeness sculpting skills. This bust was sculpted from a sphere in ZBrush. A base mesh was made first, retopologized for proper flow, then used for the sculpt. I did a pass of fibermesh hair that looks much better in my opinion but could not get this to render properly in Marmoset due to current limitations. I then went back and created hair cards as an alternative. The downside to this was that I did not successfully get the spiral curls I desired in the hair design. This is something I will need to work on going forward. The texturing was fully done in Marmoset Toolbag 4.

The sculpt is based on reference images of Stefania LaVie Owen.