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Nike Mercurial — Defender

Lauren James

A 3D defender mannequin created for a Nike Mercurial campaign featuring Lauren James, developed in collaboration with Abyss Digital. Working from a provided concept, I built the model from scratch in Plasticity and Blender, then refined it through detailed sculpting in ZBrush. I optimized it in ZBrush, UV-mapped it in Blender and textured it in Substance 3D Painter, then handed it over, ready for other artists on the production to simulate and animate. I also refined the main 3D character base to match Lauren James’s anatomy, sculpting the leg muscles to follow her proportions, and sculpted the Nike Mercurial socks and boot laces in ZBrush, with final texturing in Substance 3D Painter.

Client

Nike · with Abyss Digital

My role

Modeling · Sculpting · UVs · Texturing

Software

• Plasticity
• Blender
• ZBrush
• Substance 3D Painter