The Swing – The Young Man

3d Man Casanova Character with Maya XGen Hair 18th Century Wig and Aristocrat Costume with Tricorn Hat

There is a Maya and ZBrush viewport presentation from the Young Man character of the Swing project. This is a great art project for a 3d re-vision of the famous 1767 painting by Jean-Honore Fragonard. Firstly I captured a lot of reference images from the Casanova movie as well references from the 18th century’s aristocrat costumes, wigs, and tricorn hats. I made the sewing pattern of the justacorps jacket, the vest, the pants, the scarf, the ruffles, and the bow in Marvelous Designer, then I animated the character in laying position so finally, I got the base of his costumes with cloth simulation. Then I exported and detailed the clothes in ZBrush. I used NoiseMaker, custom crease brushes, and IMM custom brush for the lace of the coat. I took reference photos from a guy to find the right expression on his face. To make the wig hair, eyebrow and eyelash I used the powerful Maya XGen. You can see more details about the making-of in the Swing Breakdown post. Here is a WIP version of the rendering by Spencer Fitch. Last year was an exhibition about the project by Chris Coy.

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Video presentation about the characters of the Swing projects

To grooming the wig, eyebrow, and eyelash I used the powerful Maya XGen tool, I really like it. With guide curves easy to control the direction of hairs, with expression easy to customize the style and details, with texture maps easy to control the density.

3d Man Head with Maya XGen Wig Hair Guides Curves

ZBrush screenshots

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I used the face of this guy as a reference

young blonde guy smile

Young guy head in ZBrush with scarfYoung guy Casanova head in ZBrush with scarf and 18 century wig with bowYoung guy Casanova head in ZBrush with scarf and 18 century wig with bow

2016