Tutorial: Realistic Portrait

Eugene (etr9j) · December 2, 2006

alt_ligury has posted a really nice tutorial on how to do a realistic portrait. Not only is the tutorial made really well, but the result is amazing (see inset).

The tutorial is in French, however you can find an English babelfish translation here. It covers everything from taking reference pictures, modeling the face, getting textures made up, and even using hair particles to add that extra realism. Definitely worth checking out.

Author Eugene (etr9j)

Just a guy really into 3D, especially where Blender is concerned.

22 responses

unreal

2 December 2006 at 10:15

Great tutorial!
Isn’t it creepy to live with a virtual alter ego?

grafixsuz

2 December 2006 at 12:03

very nice, thanks for sharing that with the community. great job

Bjellereven

2 December 2006 at 12:36

Very good tutorial. Someone who knows French and English should translate it, Babelfish translations are a little hard to understand.

Traligy

2 December 2006 at 12:58

Nice one gotta try this.

toontje

2 December 2006 at 14:02

Now there is this thing I don’t understand: Many times it is mentioned that Blender can’t handle multi UV maps. It was even mentioned somewhere that it is on the to do list of Brecht. And on the other hand, you see this fine example, heck, there is even a tut on how to accomplish multi UV maps at Blender Wiki. Am I missing something here??

Lekane

2 December 2006 at 14:10

i think multi uv maps stands for different uv coord…. here he is using the uvmapping for all textures..
I might be wrong though :p

Lekane

2 December 2006 at 14:10

here he is using the “SAME” uvmapping for all textures :p (one word change it all hehe)

broken_sword

2 December 2006 at 14:16

Nice!!!!!!!! Thanks for letting us know about this tutorial :D

Regards,
BS

MOXAB

2 December 2006 at 16:21

Holy cow! Holy Cow! That final product on the tutorial is unbelievable! The whole process of it is genius! It’s realy realistic.
Nice work alt_ligury!

elcazze

2 December 2006 at 17:15

Here is a human/non automatic translation:

http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/Portrait

have fun reading this :-D

quiss42

2 December 2006 at 20:07

@elcazze: Thank you very much!

Though I can make some sense out of the french text, this is _really_ helpful!

ROUBAL

3 December 2006 at 02:57

For my own, I enjoyed finding a good french tutorial !

It is not so usual.

Great tutorial,and really a great model.

The final result is amazing !

Javier Reyes GuzmÃ¡n - Puerto Rico

3 December 2006 at 05:32

The final rendered image looks more real than him. For me that 3D work is very close to Final Fantasy: Spirit Within.

claas

3 December 2006 at 06:34

great texturing.

and the modeling is simple and very effective.

all is left that we can finally create skin like shaders.
the rendering looks too much like a plaster sculpture.

claas

Bravad

3 December 2006 at 10:57

The result is amazing. I wish i could get to the english translation but strangely enough i am not able opening any alta vista page. Is there any server care?? It looks pretty strange to me for nobody else mentioned such a problem. Hopefully i’ll find a way for getting this tutorial. Can’t get this rendered image out of my head. Really astonishing what is able with Blender and a well skilled artist of course

Bravad