I’ve always loved the prologue to the The Lord of the Rings and in particular the character of Elrond.
I started this as a simple likeness sculpt, but over time I wanted to push my knowledge of character creation, with texturing, hair generation, lookdev and lighting.
The sculpt was done in zbrush and detailed with Texturing.xyz’s multi channel faces pack. I textured in Mari and rendered in Maya/Arnold, the hair was done using XGEN.
