Lavender Queen

3D Character Design

This is from a project where the design presented the opportunity to create a female African-American character. I jumped at the opportunity as there are many models and great reference to use, and it’s painfully under-covered in the industry to put it frankly. I was so excited and enthusiastic to be working on this project.

So you can imagine my disappointment when the client shied away from this direction and asked that the character be changed to be more Caucasian. This was a gut punch for many reasons, so I planned to re-visit the character and realize the original vision. This is that original character. I hope you like her.

I love styling hair with a hair shader and that is not for real-time application which requires rendering on flat planes. Modeling this jewelry was also a lot of fun. There is also a full costume and gown complete with scepter, but I am not able to show them. 

The model was created in Zbrush and rendered in VRay using 3ds Max. The renders were composited in Photoshop for final treatments.