Armour of Henry II - [Realtime]

Here is a real time recreation of the Armour of Henry II made as part of a larger overarching project. This was created primarily in Zbrush using Photoshop for custom alphas, with Maya used for the retopology and UV unwrap and Substance Painter used for baking and texturing. This piece comes in at 78,167 tris and five texture sets and is rendered out in Unity HDRP & Marmoset Toolbag.

Description of the piece from The Met:

This is one of the most elaborate and complete French parade armors, and it retains much of its original coloring. The surfaces are covered by dense foliate scrolls inhabited by human figures and a variety of fabulous creatures that derive from the Italian grotesque. The decoration includes, at the center of the breast, a Roman warrior receiving tribute of arms from two kneeling females and, on the shoulders, Apollo chasing the nymph Daphne (front) and Apollo with the slain monster Python (back). The crescent moon, one of the badges of Henry II (reigned 1547–59), appears in several places.

Twenty original design drawings for this armor survive. One is by Jean Cousin the Elder; the rest are by either Étienne Delaunne or Baptiste Pellerin. All three were distinguished Parisian artists of the mid-sixteenth century.