GERALT OF RIVIA - The Witcher III Wild Hunt - Stylized
Some sketches I did when designing the stylized version of Geralt. These were the sketches that started to look more like him, I noticed slightly squinting his eyes made him look a lot more like Geralt from the game
In the begining I thought about making a battle damaged version too, with some poisoning, but I time wouldn't let me.
This picture does not belong to me, it is the ingame reference of the armor Geralt wears in my artwork.
Some early stages that I love to look at to see how all started :).
I used Marvelous Designer to create this shape that I would convert into an alpha. Then made it tilleable, and used it to displace the geo in zbrush.
I divided the hair into pieces when working on it, and that allowed me to do some stupid stuff with it too...
That was all, thanks for watching and I hope some Witcher fans out there like it :)
An stylized version of Geralt of Rivia from the Witcher series.
This in particular is my take on Witcher III's Geralt, but instead of making him wear the official armor I thought fans would prefer to see some other armor from the game. I also asked a friend of mine to choose the swords, hopefully some of you will recognise them.
I was trying to have Brave and How to Train Your Dragon as inspirations for texture quality and realism, but also design him as a sharp character that could fit in a darker animation movie without loosing appeal. Also, first time with long hair, quite nightmarish to be honest, but I'll end up learning better ways I'm sure.
This has been going on for some months, specially because of performance issues and took me too long to do renders until now.
So I'm happy I can finally post it and move on and I hope you like it and expect more of this kind of stuff cause I'd really like to do more :) .