Storytime
A portrait of Zoe during a more relaxed moment in an ornate study reading about someone else’s story.
Date Published:
July 19, 2021
Tools Utilized:
Poser 12, Photoshop CC, Lightroom Classic
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This is a portrait of Zoe Castillo from the amazingly awesome story-rich video game Dreamfall Chapters. (If you’ve never played it or its predecessors, do so immediately! They are some of the best stories ever told in video game history!) I’ve honestly worked, off and on, on this likeness of Zoe since 2014 but never got around to finishing it until now. I’m glad I waited as I wasn’t as good at hand-painting certain details onto textures like eyebrows back then since this character also includes custom made textures in addition to the face sculpt. The blue study textures are by one of my favorite digital artists since I started as both a fan and creator of digital art in the late 90s, Moyra. (Anyone else remember Moyra’s Web Jewels? I certainly do! Seeing the beautiful graphics on that site is what inspired me to start this madness!) The texture set was for D|S but I converted it to Poser 12 myself which was easy thanks to her texture map naming conventions and using the product promos as references. I’ll have to message her a copy of this so she can see how the conversion turned out!