Original HR object (6.8M tris) captured by Artec 3D ( on sketchfab - 200k tris).

Process

• The initial mesh was remeshed to an intermediate object with Meshlab (quadric edge collapse decimation) and mmgs (6.8M -> 950k tris)
• Details (ropes and sword) were splitted from the horse body (mark sharp edges -> edge split -> separate), and batch remeshed for better results.
• The resulting meshes (70k tris total) were then manually unwrapped (+manifold edges seams) and merged.

Material

The material was created from scratch on the high resolution object before being baked to 2K textures:

• Bronze patina on the top
• Mix of metals on the body
• Smoother metal on the edges

Cycles material layout

Blueprint