Finally, after many late nights of working my poor vertex-pulling, texture-painting fingers to the pain, I can show you all my in-game version of Sintel! (check out the Gallery for some more, in-game, shots.)

The model itself is a much-adjusted retopology of the actual movie model, and while I used a baked ambient occlusion map as a reference later on (to make sure the diffuse map would match a baked normal map, demanded by the mean project overlords), 99.99% of the diffuse texture is my own original work. The other other .01% is the tattoo, which we decided to shamelessly rip from the movie files (in fact, the file turned up just as I was about to hand-paint my own version using an old video on the Durian site as a reference. Yes, I am crazy.)

So anyway, the whole diffuse texture is original digital painting/photo-manipulation, using every available official Durian image (weren’t many helpful ones, at times!) as reference, and textures from CGTextures.com as a starting point. From there, I created a spec map, and painstakingly baked a normal map from the movie model, which ended up needing a lot of hand-painted fixes anyway…

As you see them here, the textures still need tweaking here and there, but I feel they are near enough to completion that it’s safe to finally show off my hard work. Hope you enjoy it!