The Making Of Lulu

Textures

First step, making the texture coordinates. I used the usefull "pelt mapping" in 3dsmax. I love this tool, it's so easy to create the seams you need and the automatic UV stretshing is always fun to see.

I used photoreferences for the hairs, the skin, and the clothes. Zbrush helped me to place them correctly and quickly.

Then a lot of modifications were brought to those maps retouching colors, contrast stuff like this in order to step away from reality and get a stylised illustration.

Some maps:

Render settings

Now we have the diffuse maps , but before making the materials i must set the render parameters. I do it before because light is the most important part of the picture conception and materials will depend of those settings. I made an interior scene with 2 lights one for the global illumination, the other to simulate sun rays.

Render tests: