DYSTOPIAN RIDER
ARTIST
Paul Braddock
SOFTWARE
Maya, Hard Mesh (Maya plugin), Marvelous Designer, ZBrush, RealityCapture, Megascans, Substance Painter, Redshift, Photoshop
VFX artist Paul Braddock has over 15 years’ experience working for Animal Logic in Sydney, Australia. This mysterious image was completed in a few weeks’ worth of spare time, largely consisting of early mornings and weekends.
“All of the clothing was created with Marvelous Designer. I used photogrammetry, and scanned my own motorcycle boots and gloves. The midground rock formation is from my local beach. In Maya, I use a plugin called Hard Mesh for hard-surface work, and all texturing was done in Substance Painter,” explains Paul of his software choices throughout the process.
As a child of the Eighties much of Paul’s inspiration comes from that era’s plethora of…