Character Shaders

A breakdown post for stylized skin, hair, and eye shaders I created using Unreal Engine. I took a step back from fully-fledged projects and crafted a few shaders that I could implement into my future stylized characters to heighten their appeal.

Beauty shots in UE4

General maps: base colour, normal, roughness, ambient occlusion, & metalness

Anisotropic hair breakdown: final result in UE4, anisotropy, flow, height to normal, & opacity mask

Anisotropic hair turntable in UE4

Skin breakdown: final result in UE4, subsurface profile, micro normal, vellus hair fresnel, & masks

Parallax occlusion eyes breakdown: final result in UE4, parallax occlusion on, height, & parallax occlusion off

Parallax occlusion eyes turntable in UE4

Wireframe render in ZBrush

High poly sculpt render in ZBrush

Beauty turntable in UE4