My DAE journey

HI! 

I am Matts Verkest, a 22-year old enthusiastic artist who recently graduated with magna cum laude in the major 3D Production and Visual Effects (DAE) from Howest University. And in late June 2019, I finished my internship at Dassault Systemes 3DExcite as a (General) 3D artist. As of September 2019 I aam a fulltime 3D artist at 3DExcite.

Below you can find an overview of my past projects during my 3D Production and Visual Effects major at DAE (2015-2019)

To know more about me, the projects below & more, please visit my website: https://www.matts-verkest.com/

1// Digital Arts and Entertainment (DAE)

“Digital Arts and Entertainment (DAE) is a three-year full-time Bachelor degree programme designed by and developed for creative, ambitious, passionate and exceptional individuals, ready to push the limits of tomorrow’s interactive or pre-rendered 3D.”

My DAE archive: https://www.matts-verkest.com/dae-highlights

First year DAE (2015-2016)

Mercedes-Benz 300SL // 3D Production - high poly sub-d car model

Mercedes: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Wxxgv

Reimagined 'Cars' scene: Flo's V8 // 3D Production - (re)creating a scene from a movie or tv series

'Cars': https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3xxao

Second & third year DAE (2016-2018)

Lannister Armor study // Character Creation - hard surface and upper human body study

Lannister: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/gdkrx

Windmill isle diorama // Digital scultping - sculpt based on a photobash

Windmill: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/PrRyy

Rémi - a little, classy robot // Film Projects: a robot for a short movie.

Model: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/V0xyP 

Movie: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/X0qNR

Marty McFly - Action figure // Character Creation - full character with props and clothes

Marty: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dBdGX

Tactical mask // Compositing - a tactical mask, inspired by Bane's mask from Batman

Mask: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/b1wmn

Mask movie (comp): https://www.artstation.com/artwork/20mlJ

WWII Low poly assets // Compositing - low poly WWII assets for a tracked drone shot

Drone shot WWII beach: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bExmg

Easter Egg's Adventures // Compositing - "Tiny Worlds" 3D + 2D movie

Movie: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/52gzO

Houdini Hair & Fur R&D // VFX Simulations - research a topic within Houdini and create a cool animation with this topic

Sim movie: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ywVZO

Fourth year DAE (2018-2019)

The Collective

As 1 of 3 universities worldwide, Howest was selected by Volkswagen to think about tomorrow's car. Howest created The Collective which represents the multidisciplinary project and team. I was a part of this team as a last year 3D/VFX student of DAE (2018-2019).

As a multidisciplinary team we worked on a project for Volkswagen about mobility of the future. In Wolfsburg we presented our findings to the Volkswagen Design Team. The Collective consisted of 12 students: 4 people of DAE (Digital Arts and Entertainment), 4 people of Devine (Digital Design Development) and 4 people of IPO (Industrial Product Design).

The Collective: https://www.matts-verkest.com/the-collective 

Personal projects (2017-2019)

My personal projects: https://www.matts-verkest.com/personal-projects