I wanted to recreate original painting by william adolphe Bouguereau Thirst 1886 in 3D. Modeled in Maya, uved in maya & UV layout, rendered in mental ray and comped in Nuke. Hair was created with a mixture of cut & shave and modeled mass mapped with textures applied. Scene was lit with a dome light rig to create , no GI was used.

Zbrush sculpts high-res models.

Wireframe typegoly setup.

Diffuse texture painted at 4k down sampled to 2K, UV layout. Texture painted using zbrush projection, bodypaint and photoshop.




Pot diffuse texture fully painted



Render passes setup for comp