Raising a Family

The result of the final project for my master’s degree in 3D Game Art. I sculpted my DnD characters: a grandmotherly necromancer and the skeleton familiar she dotes upon. Game-ready (~136k verts total) and rendered in Unreal Engine 5.

I took them through most stages of the game art pipeline: invented their designs, created the clothing in Marvelous Designer, sculpted face/body/accessories in ZBrush, did basic rigging/posing, retopology, and UVs in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, lit and rendered in UE5.

The elements that were not scratch-made are the skeleton base mesh, which is a wonderful freebie by Fabricio Works on Artstation, and the environment, which I assembled with modular pieces from Megascans (shown in screenshots but not included in download).

More renders along with a full breakdown (with WIP) are available over on my Artstation.