Samuel Lauro - Concept Art 2023
Hi everyone ! Here is a collection of pieces I made during my time at New3dge Concept Art. Share your thoughts if you have some ! I had a lot of fun working on all of this and I hope you'll enjoy it. Thanks for taking a look !
Samuel Lauro - Concept Art 2023
Graduation project
This project is an adaptation of the book Blindsight by Peter Watts. I wanted to adapt it as a cinematic video game or a Love, Death & Robot type of project. The objective was to create a ensemble cast with different roles and personalities.
A crew of astronauts is sent into outer space to investigate a potential unknown lifeform. But this crew is far from normal as all of its members have vampire genes mixed in them and their leader is an actual vampire.
The original book had a lot of different ideas and I knew it would be a challenge to balance them all. So as the project went on, I had to prioritize in order to make it more impactful.
Siri is the main character, but in the book he's also quite weird and creepy. So I wanted to avoid him looking too heroic or too likeable. He also reports everything to the government and the other characters don't really trust him because of it.
A lot of attitude exploration was necessary for this project, as the personalities of the characters was the focus. I wanted the pose and expression to reflect their roles and mindsets
For Sarasti, I really wanted to make him feel like a vampire. I tried to make his suit like classic vampire clothes but add a scifi twist to it.
I explored what the anatomy of the vampire could be. I wanted to make it look a bit more like an alien but also recognizable as vampire.
Huge thanks to Simon Tosovsky, Choro Choi and Nils Carstens who were giving feedback along the project.
VFX/Game Art project - TOWER 42
TOWER 42 is a group project made for the VFX/Game Art sections of the school. We had to create concepts for a game cinematic.
TOWER 42 is about a group of firefighters on a constantly burning planet, trying to fight back the flames and colonize it.
The following concept is accompanied by a 3D render (see slider) created by the VFX team at New3dge for their graduation project.
The idea for these character's outfits was to imagine they would be on stand by, safely in the tower. So I tried to create designs where you could see what their clothes looked like under the armor.
A lot of head exploration was required for this project. We wanted to see how to dark we could go with we world building, trying to give an apocalyptic feel to it with scars and tattoos.
The challenge with these early iterations was to create a scifi design while still keeping the idea of a firefighter clear.
Huge thanks to Jens Claessens and Timo Peter who were giving feedback along the project.
Portfolio
As you can imagine, I really enjoy designing characters ! I love creating faces and clothes that reflect their personalities. I'm also a big scifi nerd so here are some hard surface props and characters to finish it off !
Thank you for taking a look ! I feel an immense gratitude for being part of New3dge these last two years, I learned so much and had lots of fun along the way !
Special thanks to all of my countless and wonderful teachers for teaching us so much.
To Aurélien Fournier for managing this fantastic cursus and giving us this life changing opportunity.
To all the New3dge team.
And finally to my amazing classmates and friends who made these 2 years go by in the a flash.
Thanks again and I hope I get to work with you !
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