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  • Likeness Portrait: Abe Lincoln
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  • Likeness Portrait: Abe Lincoln
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Kent Trammell

I'm working on a new thing all about the human face. Some of you know what I mean 😎

To dust off my rusty skills I'm going to sculpt a bunch of likeness busts. Here's an attempt at Honest Abe. The main challenge with this one was relying on old photos. All of which are a little out of focus, low resolution, and only from a few angles. This makes it tricky to get a lot of info for an accurate 3D representation.

Sculpted with Blender 2.8 and rendered with Eevee (including baked irradiance)

  • Status: Work in Progress
  • Metin Seven (metinseven)

    Great sculpture! Love the lighting too.
  • Sergey Vasilev (enzzomatrix)

    I want to learn that, too. That's cool. It's incredible
  • stevek

    Amazing, Its well made. am not yet well found of Eevee but this proves its some awesome realtime render engine.
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    Lionel Alvergnas (shkyo30)

    Wow! Superb piece of work!
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    John Sanderson (procyonlotor)

    williamatics It looks like he also put some grain and chromatic aberration in there, probably to create that "old photo" feel from his reference. That may be what you are noticing.
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    keenan18

    Excellent work.

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    Kent Trammell (theluthier)

    williamatics I think I know what you mean. Though I think it's less to do with the render resolution/quality (I actually rendered double res and scaled down) and more to do with the resolution of the sculpture. Being more of a 3D "sketch" I didn't polish the shapes as much as they could have been. I'm trying to keep these sculpts down to one-day / a couple hours to create and there's only so much polish that can happen in that time.

    Still it's a valid point you make! 👌
  • William Miller (williamatics)

    The sculpture is amazing! I feel that the renders are a bit blurry/low-resolution. I'd love to see a nice, crisp render so I can admire all the details.
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    winston1

    Incredible stuff! Inspiring and intimidating work at the same time!
  • Daniel Molina (chepetusa)

    You are awesome dude, nice sculpt