Introduction

The following article isn't intended to be a tutorial as such but rather a focused ‘making of' during which I will attempt to explain a lot of my working practices and techniques. I'm going to illustrate this with Videos and images where appropriate. I've also included at the bottom of the article a link to the scene file, which includes a version of the scene with a frozen mesh and all the textures in JPG format at full resolution. I have no intention of discussing modeling or sculpting techniques, as there are already thousands of head modeling tutorials out there and I really don't think there is anything I can tell you that you wont find better demonstrated elsewhere. Instead I want to focus on the Texturing, Shading, Lighting, Rendering and grading of this image.