Had the great pleasure of translating this concept by Konsta Nikkilä (https://konstnik.tumblr.com/post/707803623676051456/gray-shores#notes) into 3D as a personal project! I've been chiseling away at it in between jobs in the past year and finally finished it in the last few days.
I really fell in love with the colors and the skin pattern in the original concept! Wanted to make sure to stay faithful to the overall vibe while also putting in my own touches.
Approaching this I set myself a very loose limit of 50k tris and ended up at around 40k tris, including the hair cards which are around 11k tris. The project is using 3 sets of 4k textures.
Due to me only being able to work on it in between jobs, I ended up re-doing a lot of this, most notably the texturing and clothing, multiple times to adjust it to new knowledge and insights, which was great learning-wise but really stretched this project longer than it would've taken me usually.
Thanks to everybody who encouraged me along the way and a BIG THANK YOU to Konsta for bearing with me and allowing me to work on his design! :)

original concept by Konsta Nikkilä
https://konstnik.tumblr.com/post/707803623676051456/gray-shores#notes