ARTIST Youssef Lakssir SOFTWARE Maya, ZBrush, Arnold, Marvelous Designer, Substance Designer, Painter, Photoshop
What inspired me for this project was a model called Winnie Harlow – Iloved how her and other models turned their illness, vitiligo, into something positive. I think the pattern created on her face was really beautiful from a graphical point of view.
The message here is that what some would consider a defect can be turned into a force, that’s what gives her a confident stare and a powerful stance. I chose these types of clothes to reinforce that feeling of confidence.
I used a pretty common workflow. I made almost everything from scratch in ZBrush, using ZSphere for the face and basic shapes for the necklace, plus ZWrap to get a good topology. I made a part of her dress in Marvelous Designer and cleaned it up in ZBrush. I used XGen for her hair, textured with Adobe Painter and created the lace pattern in Designer, then rendered it in Arnold and some final adjustments in Photoshop.