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Kent Trammell

This project served as research and development for a tutorial course I'm producing for CG Cookie. Everything was created with Blender: Sculpting (including stamp textures), texture painting, hair, clothing simulation, and rendering. The only non-Blender aspect is the HDRI's courtesy of hdrihaven.com.

Look for the course to be published here in the future!

  • Status: Final
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    yukino hatake (yukinoh1989)

    wow, this is really great work, al those details :D
    i do hope to see the course soon, looking at this work gets me exited about it :D. will it be a full course ? like start from scratch with sculpting, retopology, rigging , texturing etc ?

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    Kent Trammell (theluthier)

    coyohti That's a very encouraging comment! Rest assured, it will be a whopping huge course. So far I've recorded + edited 10 hrs worth of video. And I'm about halfway done.
  • coyo (coyohti)

    I keep coming back to look at this piece. It is really so amazing. Reeeeaaaally hoping this is going to be the basis of a whopping huge course. :D
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    lorenzoguida77

    Amazing Kent! Is there any course to approach similar techniques? Thanks
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    Kent Trammell (theluthier)

    shredde Thanks a lot for the encouraging feedback! Means a lot 😊
  • Martin Edlund (shredde)

    I wish I would have seen this when I just started out. Back then I used Blender only and when I saw art like this I thought it was so good because the artist used Zbrush, Arnold, Mari etc. This would've made me realize that it's not about expensive software (even though blender is great).
    Incredible work Kent!
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    grafiquero

    awesome!!!!
  • Hermes Trismegistus (ericjamesmiller1969)

    Absolutely amazing
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    Kent Trammell (theluthier)

    wardred Thanks for the positive feedback! I agree with you that the dramatic studio renders turned out more realistic than the blue bg / city versions. Not 100% sure why this is the case but something I'll certainly be analyzing between now and the next portrait.

    Cheers!
  • wardred

    This is spectacular work!

    I like that you can zoom in quite a bit, and the sculpt still looks great, and realistic.

    The lighting of the gray / spotlight scenes, in particular, really sell the realism. I particularly like the head on shot. The city scene looks good too.

    The bright blue background is so unusual it seems more like CGI than the other scenes, in my opinion. Similar highlights in the city scene look good though, so it may just be the bright blue background, and a brighter lighting overall, making it seem out of kilter to me.

    A minor quibble in a series of great renders!