Due to some free days I started to dive into a little blender project testing or rather getting accustomed with blenders new sculpting, texturing tools and also wanted to put myself to the test of doing a full retopo from my dynamic topology sculpt (I tend to neglect that since I basically work with stills personally – animations only at work). I started off with a dynamic topology sculpt, did a full retopo on that to paint wrinkles, pores with mulitres modifier.

All the textures are handpainted (except for the back of the nose – it just didn’t get it right by hand) with blenders new texturing tools. For the diffuse map I used an ambient occlusion bake as base, some colors over it and blended it together with a few different noise patterns. Then cycles hair and shading. The water is ocean sim modifier with ripples for head, seaweed and drop (e.g. from the fishes fin) from dynamic paint.