--- title: How to Sculpt and Texture a 3D Fighter Character | daily.dev description: A character artist from Melbourne walks through his workflow for sculpting and texturing 'Iron Mitchell,' a fighting-game-inspired bust drawn from a concept by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-sculpt-and-texture-a-3d-fighter-character-exyfr5t1b twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Sculpt and Texture a 3D Fighter Character | daily.dev og:description: A character artist from Melbourne walks through his workflow for sculpting and texturing 'Iron Mitchell,' a fighting-game-inspired bust drawn from a concept by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-sculpt-and-texture-a-3d-fighter-character-exyfr5t1b og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/exYfr5t1b.png og:image:alt: How to Sculpt and Texture a 3D Fighter Character og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Sculpt and Texture a 3D Fighter Character **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A character artist from Melbourne walks through his workflow for sculpting and texturing 'Iron Mitchell,' a fighting-game-inspired bust drawn from a concept by artist Yao369, using Mike Tyson as a facial reference. He covers starting from a MetaHuman base in Unreal Engine 5, blockout with ZModeler, anatomy sculpting with Anatomy4Sculptors resources, retopology in Maya, texturing with TexturingXYZ and Substance 3D Painter, XGen grooming, posing with the MetaHuman rig and Transpose Master, and final rendering with Path Tracing in Unreal plus Photoshop color grading. The nine-month personal project emphasizes iteration, community feedback, and sustaining creative energy alongside a full-time industry job. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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