low poly mask modeled using Zbrush and 3dsmax 2020 UVed and textured with normal and displacment tif maps Samuria masks designed to both protect their wearer and to strike fear in the enemy.Today Japanese people commonly wear surgical masks to prevent the spread of germs, as a fashion statement, or even just for a little sense of privacy. But masks have a history almost as old as Japan itself. Originally they were used in prehistoric religious rituals beginning in the Jomon period (10,000 B.C. to 300 B.C.).