Client
ITV

Agency
ScreenScene

Role
CG Modelling, ZBrush Sculpting, Texturing

Date
2014

ScreenScene Post production house in Dublin, Ireland hired us for a ZBrush sculpting project, working on scanned 3D heads.

The scene we worked on required CG face replacement visual effects, swappign out a characters face for a CG model. The two actors in question were first cast in silicon and the resulting casts were sent to a traditional sculptor to add the necessary rotting and detailed skin work. The final sculpted heads were then scanned using a DSLR Camera, shooting from multiple angles and elevations, before being processed using Agisoft Photo scanning software to generate a 3d mesh.

To make sure the scans were of the highest possible quality and to reduce clean-up work, we sprayed them in a Matte grey finished with dusting of Matte white. This removed any reflection but exaggerated surface detail. We took these scans into ZBrush and decimated them down to a usable level, then we used  Maya to retopologize them and Headus UV layout to give them a set of UV co-ordinates.

We then took the clean mesh back into ZBrush and projected the high resolution detail back on. As there was no skin texture to capture we re-painted the texture by hand inside ZBrush. All of the rigging, compositing, and animation was done by the talented team at ScreenScene.