I wanted to create a feeling that this guy looks old not from age but from mental stress; that he has been waiting for something/someone for too long and has not gone outside for a while and not paying attention to his health. I also wanted to make his eyes still believe in a little hope.

This Project started in december of 2006. The whole project took about 6 weeks as I needed to learn about subsurface scattering shaders for the textures. It was also the first time I tried and complete a full image (lighting, posing, comp).

I used Maya, Mudbox, Zbrush, Photoshop, Mental Ray