THE SECOND COMING OF RYKARR

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This is kind of a long and complicated process so I'll try to simplify things to keep the response fairly succinct.

I wanna start out by saying that although there's certainly some overlap with genuine artistry in what I do, I don't really consider myself a "3D artist" since let's be honest here, I'm just really playing around with stuff that was already mostly made for me. It'd be a disservice to actual 3D artists to put myself into their corner too.

So with stuff like the player models, what I first do is export their model through WoWModelViewer (nowadays wow.export). I then clean up the model in Blender, add some geometry (mostly through subdividing specific areas), and then do morphs on the body to my liking. I also edit the textures and upscale them, and then add other features to the textures like specular highlights to simulate sweat.

The models are then posed and rendered out into a scene. I've been rendering out into 8K PSDs pretty much since I started this hobby since I wanted my images to be super duper future proof. I then very meticulously edit those PSDs to get rid of any obvious imperfections that I couldn't fix on the 3D side of things, and then do a lot of post-processing work to glam up the image.