Andrey Dobraeb channels the eerie atmospheres and intricate world-building of dark fantasy games like Dark Souls and Elden Ring to craft this mossy character

Andrey is a 3D artist from Russia, who created this remarkable render 'Old God in the Wood' using ZBrush, RizomUV and Substance Painter. Here we find out more about the artist's process.

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The style of this piece is reminiscent of my favorite dark fantasy games like Dark Souls and Elden Ring. I’d like to work on similar games in the future, so I decided to practice this style.

For 'Old God in the Wood' I also wanted to try something unusual, like creating the moss on the character. For the sculpt, I used ZBrush, and since my goal at the moment is visual effects, I created the character mesh with decimation. I used RizomUV to create UV maps and Substance 3D Painter for the textures and to achieve moss effect that I wanted.

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This content originally appeared in 3D World magazine.