Amethyst is a 3D character art project by Nils Wadensten based on the art of the famous Czech painter Alphonse Mucha. His work is amazingly detailed and he used a wide variety of products including Maya, Marvelous Designer, Substance Painter, Arnold, and others.
Amethyst: Interpretation of the art of Alphonse Mucha in 3D
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We started tackling these challenges at work where everyone on the art team is encouraged to create something around a specific topic. This time the theme was Alphonse Mucha and since, like most people, I adore his work, I really felt I had to attend. I usually prefer to create my own concepts, but by doing that I wanted to see if I could take one of his illustrations and translate it into 3D. So I set out to collect a lot of mucha art to decide which one to do.
Finally, I chose Amethyst from his Precious Stones series. I like the pose of the female figure, the colors and the combination of beautiful fabric and iris flowers.
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