FACS blendshapes preview (Warcraft fan art)

I don't get enough blendshapes freelance work, so I made some for myself. I sculpted eight favourite FACS blendshapes, ready for animation, based loosely on old man's face scan data to get proper basic wrinkles movement. Hopefully this brings me more face sculpting and blendshapes jobs!


FACS blendshapes preview (Warcraft fan art) from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

  FACS blendshapes preview (Warcraft fan art) from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

"Justice League" Movie

I've had a great pleasure to work for Scanline VFX to sculpt faces and create blendshapes of heroes for this movie, I can not wait !!!

Blur Studio: Middle-earth: Shadow of War

It was a genuine pleasure to work with Blur Studio on the announce trailer for Middle-earth: Shadow of War, especially that I got to sculpt the biggest, baddest of them all - Balrog  :)

Dagon

hi!
Recently I travel a lot so I do not have much time but hopefully it will change soon. This is another morphing face test.
Base model plus one blendshape, no skeletal animation. His name is Dagon. Enjoy!

Dagon from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

Machina

Hi, here is my new work, a case study of mixing morph animation and skeletal animation. I mainly focused on tongue and lips movement. Of course this is my first attempt so please excuse if its a bit rough. Enjoy!

machina from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

morph - next test :)

Hi guys, here's my new work - exercise in mixing morph and skeletal animation, Its a bit creepy as always, Enjoy!

morph_nex_test from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

Horse zombie

After many weeks alone in vancouver I got really bored after work (even learned to lie and read a book... never got to this level before), so I decided to do something useful with the time. I baked my laptop red hot and in a few days I was able to render this here zombie PONY hehe

Too bad my laptop is soo slow, tweaking animation takes too long so I am stopping here. Hope you like

Horse zombie from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

interview with me on 80 level :) !

"Izabela Zelmańska is a real hero for me. She bravely uses real-time rendering, she's not against 3d-capture tech, she works 10 jobs and still pushes out amazing results. Here she talks a little about her production and approach to character building."

кирилл токарев - Editor-in-chief on 80 Level

http://80.lv/articles/building-great-characters-for-games/

DIGITAL UP magazine

Me and my art are featured in latest issue of DIGITAL UP magazine! Plenty of interesting reading - all of it, not only bits about me ;)  http://joom.ag/DXxp

hand morph

My first morph of other body part than head :) I definitely want to push further in this direction!

reka_morph from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

Wow, someone tattooed his arm with my art!!! :) :)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCgNTfgmGuN/

Lately I've been really busy doing freelance jobs, but luckily I managed to find time for this little
monster, based on concept art by Julian Wicik:  http://gabahadatta.daportfolio.com/

FACS-based face animation

Hi! We have finally started working on FACS-based face animation. These are just humble beginings but I will share what we have so far anyway:)
We've scanned 23 aligned expressions. These are first RAW scans from newly tweaked/calibrated 24DSLR rig, without any cleanup, baked displacement etc. We are retargeting them in Zbrush now and will keep you posted when we move to next phase - animation tests:)

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Chimera morph

Hi, I've done another short morph animation in Unreal Engine 4. This is medium res mesh with three textures (resolutions 512, 2048 and 4096) and two morph targets. I realy need to start adding some head movement animation ;/

chimera from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

3d World

Hi, latest issue of "3D World" features interview with my huble self :)
Enjoy!

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d-world-magazine

Human Chimera

Hi, here's my new art "Human Chimera", sculpted in Zbrush, rendered in Vray, retouched in Photoshop

Fiona

Hi! I recently broke my arm but that only slowed me down for a little while :) I am now able to go back to my personal projects - this time I went for a bit of creepy fantasy, dead girl in a forest, nature taking over.

fiona_3 from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

Photogrammetry head

Hi, we have recently upgraded our rig with another eight cameras :) This is our first quick fun with all 24 of them to test the quality and also compare reconstruction quality between Photoscan and RealityCapture :) Rig is not perfectly calibrated yet, there's no decent white background and don't get me started on the cable-spaghetti, but we'll get there :) RAW scans below.

I merged all recent face scans (16 expressions) with full head geometry, aligned and put together in this little GIF. All pretty raw still.Next up, some more cleanup and creating morph targets!

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zombie Alice

Hi, my next little project is woman morphing into a zombie :) Sculpted in Zbrush, textured in Photoshop.

zombie Alice from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

Orc

Hi there! Here's my new art, unoriginally called 'Orc' :) Sculpted in about 5h in Zbrush,  overpaint in Photoshop

Dying Vampire

Hi, here's my next art piece:) A bit stylized - "Dying Vampire". Done in Zbrush with a touch of Photoshop overpaint

Skin deep

Hi, here's my latest work, titled 'Skin deep'. I found inspiration in Body Count's 'Born Dead'.

GrRrRrrr.....

hi! Here's my new art :) I used the face from my previous sculpt, and made two additional expressions for it

I took inspiration from this quote from Sucker Punch

We can deny our angels exist...

...convince ourselves they can't be real.

But they show up anyway.

At strange places.

And at strange times.

They can speak through any character

we can imagine.

They'll shout through demons

if they have to...

...daring us...

...challenging us to fight

Who honors those we love

with the very life we live?

Who sends monsters to kill us...

...and at the same time

sings that we'll never die?

Who teaches us what's real

and how to laugh at lies?

Who decides why we live

and what we'll die to defend?

Who chains us?

And who holds the key that can set us free?

It's you.

made in Zbrush

Lilith

Lately I have been doing a bit of design research for our new game and I 
promised myself that this time I would do something less dark and creepy, but thats just not working out, I should stop fooling myslef that I am capable of designing cute things hehe.
I took inspiration in many movies, animations and characters. One in particular that stuck in my head was 'Artificial Love 2' art made by Grzesiek Wróblewski. 
What moved me was the notion of machine/human hybrid getting rid of its own heart, deeming it irrelevant organ.

Grzegorz Wróblewski:
https://www.facebook.com/GrzesiekWroblewski/ 
https://www.behance.net/grzesiekwroblewski

What A Lovely Day!

What A Lovely Day! :) Our first realtime facial animation test in Unreal 4 based on photogrammetry data from our home rig. Design based loosely on Mad Max War Boys. Instead of doing what regular couples do, we went crazy and built our own photogrammetry rig at home. After capturing every facial expression known to man (and then some!), we are now researching ways of making it all work in realtime. Still long way ahead of us but we'll get there! Stay tuned

 

What A Lovely Day! from Izabela Zelmańska on Vimeo.

Ciri - my own version

Hello, as a new fan of "Witcher3" I decided to sculpt my own version of my favorite heroine - Ciri 

"You're making me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

Ciri

What a year for photogrammetry and what a year for us! We provided scanning services for two separate Bafta winners this year! First it was Bafta Best Innovation award for game The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter, and now Television Craft Award for BBC Winter Olympics spot!

Today I turned my latest scan into lowpoly animation-ready model. I added details to make it look more interesting

little devil:)

Here's my new art, based on scan of a 7 year old girl, done in zbrush, hair made in 3ds max and zbrush

photogrammetry rig

Finally! My own photogrammetry rig :D Lots of late night scanning and sculpting ahead, yuupiiii :)!

first raw results from our rig (our faces :D )

and a friend