obama-portraitAnto Juričić (grapix) has created this great digital portrait of U.S. President Barack Obama using a wide variety of tools and techniques, and has written up the entire process in a new Making Of over at 3dm3.

With all my personal project I try to learn as much as I can so I often change pipeline and workflow as well. Don’t be afraid to try some new techniques and apps since technology is growing every day giving us opportunity to work more efficiently. In this project I will be switching between Maya, ZBrush, Silo, Uv layout and Photoshop.

First thing I did was building simple base mesh in Silo using smoothed cube primitive and extruding few faces from bottom to make neck volume and shoulders. You can see Silo base mesh in figure below

via Making of Mr.Obama Digital Portrait – Community for CG Artists.