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“FOR THE LIGHTNING BOLT, I DYNAMESHED CYLINDERS TOGETHER THAT I EXTRUDED ALONG A CURVE„

ZEUS

CONCEPT BY GIANLUCA ROLLI (WWW.ARTSTATION.COM/ARTWORK/VDG3WN)

ARTIST Annina Weber

SOFTWARE ZBrush, Maya, Marvelous Designer, V-Ray, Substance 3D Painter, Photoshop, XGen, TexturingXYZ, R3DS ZWrap, Nuke

This project took me four months to create. The concept spoke to me because Zeus looked powerful, but in a very effortless, calm way. To get started I worked on a Jeff Bridges likeness sculpt to have a lot of reference images to choose from, then changed the face to match my interpretation of the concept. When creating the lightning bolt, I mostly used ZBrush, where I DynaMeshed cylinders together that I extruded along a curve. To get the distorted but natural-looking shapes of flashing electricity, I used the Inflate slider under the Deformation menu and brushes like SnakeHook and Move Topological.