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Legio Custodes - Warhammer fanart

The Emperor's superhuman bodyguards. Been sitting on this one for a while. This guy was mainly a test in how far I can get with just drawing normal map alpha details onto the mesh surface, without highpoly sculpting at all. Style-wise I sought to combine ideas from the Warhammer 40k tabletop miniatures with an older version of these characters seen in concept art pieces, as well as add some medieval/renaissance armor influences. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out. I don't deal with fabrics or hair that much though, so the cloak and plume are very simplistic.

Every piece of filigree was painted on, this was the base mesh. The sharp edges were given a fake bevel/roundness effect via the curvature map.

Every piece of filigree was painted on, this was the base mesh. The sharp edges were given a fake bevel/roundness effect via the curvature map.