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Concept
"Paper Circus" makes a broken doll into a ballet dancer, frozen in a perpetual dance on a stage inside an old, broken down theater.
While dancer and theater are 3D models, the stage is designed to look like 2D paper cut-outs.
The Paper Stage
I started with a concept sketch of the stage and design of the dancer.
I sketched out the seperate paper layers of the stage and got started on the setup inside Maya.
The Dancer
I posed a female base mesh and blocked her dress in Maya before importing it into Zbrush and sculpting the general shape. I textured the dancer in Substance Painter to give her the look of an abandoned, forgotten doll, complete with dirt and eroding paint.
Renders
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