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Modeling of “Kreacher” by Julian Johnson – Mortimer boring better Now for the next bit. For modeling the head of Kreacher I wanted a really interesting head with a lot of character and while coming up with the head I modeled various heads based on photos of people. I picked out pictures of people with interesting features and lots of character. these photos are from http://www.3d.sk/ For the Final head of Kreacher he was kind of a mix of all the heads that I made picking out a the different features and characteristics that I liked. I’m moving on the UV mapping now. the body was split up into different uvmaps using sets. For mapping most of the body I used a auto UV plug-in by Francois Grassard I’m not sure if he ever released the plug-in so I guess your have to e-mail him if you want to try it out. email Address will be on his site Now here’s a small bit about the textures, mostly the bump map. This character is meant to be really old and have lots and lots of wrinkles. In the final version he’s not as old looking as I would of liked. I did model him with the intention of taking him in to zbrush and adding a lot of details like lumps and bumps and wrinkles then making a displacement map from it for the lower res version. But after testing I just don’t have the memory or using the right renderer to achieve this. Anyway for starters on the bump map, the textures for just his face were 4096 by 4096, which was reduced to 3072 by 3072 for the final texture. I first painted the above map in Deeppaint 3d. I just quickly painted lots of lines that I wanted my wrinkles to run, so its easier for me to paint when I open this texture in photoshop. Now here’s that texture opened in photoshop I’ve put a 50% gray layer on top of it and turned the opacity down a bit so I can see the texture I painted in deeppaint , I will be painting on the gray layer using colour dodge and colour burn using colour dodge I’ve started painting lots of wrinkles following the lines of the layer underneath using colour burn as well now sorry but I’ve moved along quite a bit now this is now the almost finished bump map some different layers have been added. Some spot layers also some layers with very fine wrinkles here’s some bump map tests, some displacement was used in these pics. For the final version I just used normal bump mapping For the colour maps to save some time I used some high detail photos from http://www.3d.sk/ To add to these maps I painted lots of spot maps and colour maps that I could quickly apply to each texture. above is the texture for his right lower arm veins were painted in deepaint chest photo from http://www.3d.sk/ and final chest texture back texture top arm right texture Here’s a Couple of pics showing the textures. All the 1024 sized textures were originally 2048 but were all reduced in size when finished (c) Julian Johson-Mortimer, www.johnson-mortimer.com