Eriksholm - Cinematic Character Art

It’s finally time to share some of the work I did for Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream!
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For this post, I’m focusing on the Cinematic Character work I created for our cutscenes. I handled a full, end-to-end pipeline for several of the characters, from photogrammetry processing in Metashape (in parallel with a sculpting some assets from scratch in ZBrush) to low-poly creation in Maya/Blender, UVs, and final texturing.
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I wasn’t involved in the creation of Alva, but for Viktor Lindh, Mayor Jonas, and Sebastian, I handled everything from beginning to end.
The faces were first sculpted in ZBrush, then conformed to a MetaHuman topology and baked with custom normals to push the realism even further. In the last image, you can see a glimpse of the custom pipeline I built for blending veins and wrinkle maps with existing MetaHuman facial animations, adding subtle but powerful emotional depth when characters became angry, injured, or strained.
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A huge thanks to the amazing team I had the pleasure of working with from the River End team:
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Art Direction – Anders Hejdenberg
Cinematic Lighting and Environment – Theodor Waern
Cinematics Director – Gabriel Flamm
Environment Art and Additional Character work – Daniel Lundkvist
Environment Art and Additional Character work – Andreas Ezelius
Environment Art – Johanna Liw
Environment Art – Viktor Balushynskyy
Environment Art - Jan Krocak
Animations – Lukas Rubensson
Animations – Gabriel Flamm
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https://www.artstation.com/dlarth
https://www.artstation.com/andreasezelius
https://www.artstation.com/johannaliw
https://www.artstation.com/viktor-3d-art
https://www.artstation.com/honzakrocak
https://www.artstation.com/rubenlukasson
https://www.artstation.com/gabrielflamm