Elden Malone - Post Malone in Elden Ring

Here's my new personal work and I must say I had a blast creating it.I always loved Posty's music and after listening a lot the new album and seeing him talking on Hot Ones about Elden Ring, I thought it would be awesome to do a fanart and place him in that universe. So, here we have Post Malone in the Raging Wolf armor from Elden Ring and I know he's a big MTG fan as well, so I added the Black Lotus card signed by C.Rush.
I recorded everything from the reference gathering stage to the final images you see, here's the link to the course: https://www.wingfox.com/c/9042
So, to briefly break down the process: everything was sculpted in Zbrush, I used the amazing HD displacements from 3DScanStore for adding the pores, textured it in Substance Painter , created the hair with Xgen and the final images were rendered in Arnold and post-processed in Photoshop.
One challenging thing were the tattoos, it was kinda hard to find good references with some of them(big shoutout to Posty's photographer Adam Degross)and also spent some time experimenting in order to find a good layer systemto achieve a realistic and believable result, but in the end I think making the tattoos was probably my favorite part of this project. I enjoy a lot the lookdev stage as well, so I created different lighting scenarios and experimented a lot to find the perfect atmosphere and I ended up choosing two that I found suitable for the medieval theme. I used a lot of baroque paintings(Caravaggio, Rembrandt etc) and cinematic stills as reference for that. And hugeee thanks to my buddy Bogdan Doru for giving me valueable feedback and suggestions with the presentation!
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Hope you like it !