General Grievous bust- Unreal Engine 5
A piece I have been working on for a few weeks- I decided to play with Maya's sculpting tools and made a bust of General Grievous- one of my top favorite characters from Star Wars. For the eyes, I tried sculpting the details myself- however making the UVs for them proved way too time consuming. As a solution- I decided to create my own material in UE5 using a crocodile eye for the texture and adding a normal map. I then proceeded to add an emissive color node to add glow.
All of the modelling and sculpting was done in Maya and finally rendered in Unreal Engine 5 since I also wanted to play with UE5 Lumen lighting system.
Drawing a reference for sculpting
Hand-drawn reference layered over clay
Carving basic shape and eye sockets
Carved forehead arrows
Overlay with reference to make sure it aligns
sculpted the eyes
added flesh around eyes
Modelled frontal vents
Backside socket for neck
Added dorsal fins and "fangs"
Scene set-up in Unreal 5
playing with composition + light
Glowing eyes!
Added camera setup + capture rig
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