3D Artist Portfolio (first year)
My submission for the Rookie Awards 2024 consist in the best of what I have done as a student on PlaygroundSquad. Currently I'm on my first year and I had the fun of my life creating this and I'm incredibly happy to share it in the Rookie Awards!!!
3D Artist Portfolio (first year)
The Werebat
This is my first personal project as a first year student in PlaygroundSquad and I had 1 month to finish it.
The big challenges were in fact:
-Justin Gerard Complex and beautiful way of texturing and rendering materials. This could only be resolved in a good way by hand painting carefully after and while studying Justin Gerard's strokes and handwork.-Complexity of anatomy of the character, as well as the posing. This prove a very difficult yet gratifying test. I had to use a lot of imagining to understand the proportions, convert it into a 3D sculpture. As well, all of the hidden parts were made after understanding the ones that are on sight.
Original concept art by Justin Gerard
his Artstation -> https://www.artstation.com/justingerardillustration
I used a 1k texture for the hair system, this was my first time using hair cards, and it was a total blast, very fun to use and it gave me a lot of freedom.
For the feather I used a 524k texture, intelligently cutting the feather in half twice so I would save space. I have great fun in optimizing and making things efficient.
I decided to use 2 texture sets of 2k each as It gave me more detail to get the strokes right.
I Mirrored a lot of things like the ears, eyes, legs, claws in between others. I made sure to use plenty of space for the parts of the model meant to be showcased in the beauty shot. But I intentionally scaled down the shells in areas where viewers aren't supposed to look.
I hand painted in Substance 3d Painter, almost everything by hand, a process that I can do very fast and it gives me more control of where do I want the details. I needed that control to really catch the essence of the original concept art.
At the same time, I learned a lot of things while I was doing it. As I said before, this was my first time and It was a constant learning process on color theory, stroke placement and replication of the Original Justin's piece.
Crustacean decorated cannon
Bronze cannon I did in two weeks as a part of a student project, and inspired on a visit I did to the Vasa Museum.
I saw a lot of cool textures and materials displayed in a lot of old objects that were submerged in the sea for a long time.
In this project I wanted to do a Cannon that is decorated with different types of crustacean creatures
Breakdown
References board with pictures that I took in my visit to the Vasa Museum.
Taking my own pictures for referenced proved to be incredibly useful, motivating and fun!
Texture setup in substance painting. using a lot of useful techniques to make my high poly bake worth it.
process of high poly, first textures blockout, and final
Stylized Lion
This is the first sculpt that I did as a Student in PlaygroundSquad, It took me a day to finish it and it was a very important study that helped me when I had to do the Werebat.
original concept art by Hicham Habchi
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