I was inspired a lot by all the great elf characters out there – like
in the Blizzard games or LOTR movies… They always had this sense of
refinement and majesty almost. I wanted to do a character like that and
also to use it as a means to improve my skills as an artist.



Started off just sketching the head in zbrush. Initially I didn’t know
this project would become something so big – it started as just a quick
sculpt. Once I had the head done – I saw the potential – so I did a
quick sketch of what I wanted the rest of his body to look like and
went from there. It was a very organic process.



Base mesh in XSI – zbrush for sculpt, textures handpainted in Photoshop and rendered in Maya.



I also rigged him up and did a little video of him for fun… Was going
for an old footage feel – kinda inspired by old amateur videos and such.



OLD ELF FOOTAGE – Right Click Save As…



*Please forgive the bad animation! Haha…
I’m a modeler, not an animator and it was hard getting someone else to
animate it in the time I had to complete things… Hope it’s not
terrible.



The background is some pictures of a nature reserve in Trinidad that I stitched together and composited in…



Here’s the WIP thread: http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=59571



ENJOY!!!