--- title: Recreating Almalexia from The Elder Scrolls as a... description: Junior 3D character artist Margarida Coelho breaks down her process recreating Almalexia from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as a realistic cinematic... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/recreating-almalexia-from-the-elder-scrolls-as-a-cinematic-character-psfhcrre4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Recreating Almalexia from The Elder Scrolls as a Cinematic Character | daily.dev og:description: Junior 3D character artist Margarida Coelho breaks down her process recreating Almalexia from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as a realistic cinematic... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/recreating-almalexia-from-the-elder-scrolls-as-a-cinematic-character-psfhcrre4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pSFhcrrE4.png og:image:alt: Recreating Almalexia from The Elder Scrolls as a Cinematic 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. # Recreating Almalexia from The Elder Scrolls as a Cinematic Character **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Junior 3D character artist Margarida Coelho breaks down her process recreating Almalexia from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as a realistic cinematic character. She details her workflow shift from Blender to Maya, learning XGen for hair and Arnold for rendering, sculpting the face and anatomy in ZBrush with custom skin pore brushes, building the armor and mask with alpha maps, using Dynamic Subdivision for chainmail, laying out UDIMs for texturing, and hand-painting tattoos and patina detail in Substance 3D Painter. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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