For this project want to: make a realistic AAA level character, get familiar with Marvelous Designer, and push the project through into Unreal. I'm currently working on getting a cloak (not featured) and will be refining details and redoing the tunic as it was my first experiment with MD.
The character is my version of Cu Chulain a Irish demigod. I wanted to do a more subtle take on him and focus on what he could have looked like as a young man rather than the typical warrior depiction. This is quite the research project, as I am trying to be faithful to a ancient time period. My sources have been historical documents, museums, SCA websites and reading through the myths themselves. My original target time period was Pre Christian Ireland- but for the sake of makind something interesting, I've loosened that requirement a bit.
His prop is my best guess on what a Hurley may have looked like in pre Christain Ireland. Though it needs more tweaking.
My design themes for him are based around elements of his myth are: Hound, the Sun, craftsmanship, and athleticism.
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