3D & VFX Projects by Niclas Dreier

Nightcrawler in Freiburg

This is a project I worked on in my spare time.

I named the creature Nightcrawler. Even though it looks scary it's nature is very shy and kind. I got the Idea on my own by looking at some other creature concepts.

Red Wasp

Brown Bug

I created these Insects using ZBrush, Maya and Substance Painter.

I really like Insects since I where a little boy and I thought It would be cool to model some.

Stranger Things Creatures

You have to know, that I am a huge fan of the Netflix Original Series Stranger Things. This is the first project I created using ZBrush. I wanted to create all the three stages of the Demodog. The Texture of all three models is done with Substance Painter.

"Larry" one-day challenge

These are the Arrys. More Arrys are planed for the future.

The blue one is Larry and the yellow one is Barry.

Larry is based on a concept drawing that I did in school during a boring Physics class... I modeled, textured and rendered him in one day using Maya and RenderMan.

Santa Clause in the Winter Wonderland

In this project, I wanted to create a cartoonish look but also have details in Santa. Santa Claus is supposed to look like a garden gnome, to make him stand out. I chose two colors for the lights. The red light symbolizes all the warmth of Christmas and the blue light represents the cold temperatures outside.

Ancient weapons

This is a relatively old project and those weapons are also the very first hard surface models I created using ZBrush.