La'akea - Character & Environment made for real-time
Back in 2021 I drew a bunch of portraits of different women of different nationalities and one of these drawings were of this character, La'akea. She finally took shape of a 3D project now that I feel more comfortable making characters, environments and rendering them.
I'm a huge fan of water, oceans in particular, and white beaches with lots of greenery.
For this projects I made the character and all background assets, including textures. They were all modelled and textured to be able to run-real time, PBR shading.
Images rendered in Arnold.
Lowpoly assets. Clouds are drawn in Photoshop. All other textures were made with the highpoly->lowpoly pipeline and then textured in Substance Painter. Palmtree trunk texture were made in Substance Designer
PBR Materials made in Substance Designer.
Diffuse textures
Diffuse textures
The basic sketch as a reference for the main scene, the portrait from 2021 that spurred this idea to life and the tiling flower texture I drew for the bathing suit.
WIP gif of the main scene