Cambodian Monk Head

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This is a head study of an old Cambodian Monk. The reference photos were taken in Angkor. The idea to sculpt a high detailed, realistic, and interesting 3d head. The character was sculpted in ZBrush at subdivision level 7 and contains about 30 million polygons. I paid high attention to the details of the face, and also I tried to catch the personality of the character.

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Reference photos were taken in the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

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Wireframe image. The base head was made in Maya and contains 7250 polygons (triangles).

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This video introduces the sculpted old man’s head and close-up details of his face.

Working progress animation

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I used many sculpting brushes and for fine details many alpha brushes in a separate layer. Then with morph brush, I can make softer skin details if somewhere too strong.

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The 3d character is available here:
http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/cambodian-old-man-head-3d-obj/856973?referral=Andor-Kollar
2014