3D: Character assignment!

In tandem with our cars, we had to make a character to drive that car. I present to you Penny Royal, punk cab driver possessed by the TV future ghost of Queen Elizabeth II! I wanted to stick to a very punk aesthetic to match my car, so sticking to a late 60s early 70s fashion and shape language was very important. The television set was a bit of a wildcard idea for me; originally she looked like this:

 But I thought a television would give me a chance to have fun with materials as well as get some hard surface modelling in.

Sculpted in zBrush, normals and diffuse painted in 3D coat, and a final handpainted topcoat done in Photoshop, Penny Royal is one of my more favourite projects of this semester. I'm always a huge fan of handpainting things, so this was a chance to really dig my teeth into it!

 Here's what the television set effect looks like:

and here's a warning to pay attention to your UV layout when you import...