Edward Scissorhands | Real-Time Character

Edward Scissorhands | Real-Time Character
Personal Project | 3D Character Art | Game-Ready Character

A real-time character recreation of Edward Scissorhands, inspired by Tim Burton's iconic 1990 film.
The original costume was designed by Colleen Atwood, based on Tim Burton's sketches, with Johnny Depp portraying the character.
My goal for this project was to stay as faithful to the original design as possible while introducing a higher level of detail and translating Edward into a fully rigged, animated, game-ready character. Preserving his likeness, intricate mechanical construction, and emotional expression was particularly important to me.

The project involved a complete character production pipeline:

Character Sculpting: Facial likeness and body sculpted in ZBrush.
Costume: Clothing simulated in Marvelous Designer and further detailed in ZBrush.
Mechanical Hands: Blades and mechanical components modeled in ZBrush and Maya.
Retopology & UVs: Completed in Maya.
Texturing: Realistic PBR materials created in Substance 3D Painter and Substance 3D Designer.
Hair: Textures created using maya xgen, fibershop and photoshop, and haircards were placed using gs curve tools
Facial Expressions: Custom expressions developed using ZBrush and Character Creator.
Rigging: Character Creator, with additional custom joints in maya.
Animation: Motion capture and inverse kinematics (IK).
Look Development: Marmoset Toolbag.
Rendering: Unreal Engine 5.
Particular attention was given to maintaining Edward's recognizable facial anatomy, subtle asymmetry, scars, and emotional expression.
The costume and mechanical scissor hands were carefully recreated using references from the original film, including the steel blades, worn leather straps, buckles, and interconnected mechanical components.
The character was developed with animation in mind, featuring a fully rigged humanoid skeleton, facial morph targets, and custom helper joints for secondary mechanical movement.
I wanted to capture the contrast between the dangerous mechanical hands against his gentle and vulnerable personality.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Special thanks to my mentors Bruno Camara
https://www.artstation.com/brunocamara
and Oleh Bozhko
https://www.artstation.com/oleg_bozhko
for their continued guidance, feedback, and artistic support throughout my development as a character artist.

Edward Scissorhands is a character created by Tim Burton. This is an unofficial fan-art project created for artistic and portfolio purposes.

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