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Practical tips and tutorials from pro artists to improve your CG ills
In my most recent work, I've had the great honour to serve as a lead cinematic character artist on Blizzard's Diablo IV. In that role, I worked on some of the game's highest fidelity and performance-heavy characters, such as the villainous antagonist Lilith.
In this tutorial, I'm going to run you through the process I followed for creating another demonic character, namely Helena, my award-winning personal project. She was created for Rafael Grassetti's underworld-themed character sculpting contest and chosen as one of the winners.
I'll go over each key step of the process it took to create Helena from start to finish. Beginning from an initial 3D sketch using block-in methods, and then refining the shapes and ideas in order to achieve a more realistic, dynamic character, we'll look at how you can take an early concept and begin developing it into a strong, believable character packed full of story and emotion.
You can follow along and try to replicate each step of the process, but in order to get the full benefit of the workshop I recommend coming up with your own spin or idea for a character or creature along the way, while keeping it aligned to a similar theme. This is because in order to truly become a stronger character artist, you must learn to actively think and
