A Really Sad Man
C4D - Vessel for render
Octane - Render engine
Zbrush - sculpting of head, eyes, tears, and firecap (used as emitter).
Substance Painter - Texturing
EmberGen - Volumetric explosion
After Effects - Color Correcting
Bed - my reward once this is posted
Tried to export the passes through EXR, but when importing into After Effects I didn't have the right plugin. I got real lazy and said screw it. I would love to keep using EmberGen in future stuff cause it's easy to use. I also wanna make sure I don't blow the shit out of the color inside of the explosion next time.
Final Version, rendered with Octane in C4d. Simple two light setup (orange/blue) with HDRI map.
High poly used to bake maps on low poly
low poly which could be lower, but just used default Z-remesher.
Can't see it in final one, but I made a pool of tears in his mouth. Didn't consider lighting as I was making this.
Textured in Substance Painter
Layers in substance painter minus one (skin color)
Extracted his scalp (ew) inside Zbrush so I had the head shape as an emitter inside EmberGen.