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Makoto Niijima – Persona 5
I finally got to finish making everyone’s favorite girl from Persona 5, Makoto Niijima. This one project was a dream project that I’m happy with how it came out looking in the end, and eventually, down the line, I hope to get around to making all the other Phantom Thieves.
Makoto Niijima – Persona 5
Work of Higinio Gonzalez
Stylized Demon Room
I based this amazing room by a digital artist, Anna Kharlamova. She gave me the opportunity to turn her 2D demon house into 3D. I had to tweak some things and I also wanted to exaggerated some objects, I love how it turned out. I had a lot of fun with it, its one of my favorite pieces.
Stylized Demon Room
Work of Kaycee Crosson
House in the Forest
This was another project I did for my Advanced Project Practicum Class at University. The hardest part about this project was lighting in Unreal. Especially the foliage. The foliage took most of my time and the way that it played with the lighting was terrible, so it took a lot of technical skill to get it to look better. My goal was to make this art to look as similar to the concept but to improve it in 3d as well. Obviously, for 3D I needed to tweak with a lot of things, and it was definitely a challenge, but I don’t hate my final result.
House in the Forest
Work of Hunter Haag
Oni Soul Eater
This is a character that I am revisiting and plan to improve the model, textures and rendering, by adding more detail throughout the model. I thought that this character could use some of the new techniques that I have learned since its previous version.
Oni Soul Eater
Work of Mark Anthony Salinas
Stylized Witch House
I based this amazing room by a digital artist, Marya Yartseva. She gave me the opportunity to turn her 2D witch house environment into 3D. I had to tweak some things and I also wanted to exaggerate some objects, I love how it turned out. This one was a challenge but it was also a lot of fun.
Stylized Witch House
Work of Kaycee Crosson
Zagreus – Hades
Let’s go, Zagreus. I wanted to pay tribute and model Zagreus from Hades for my final project in school, an awesome character from an awesome game. I was looking to create a much more game-ready model this time around, taking into consideration the polycount and topology. Texturing was a fun process; I did a lot of hand-painting for this, and I even rigged and then posed the model because I wanted to present it within Unreal. I got to play with a lot of lighting and understand Unreal’s material shaders, and as a result, I liked how my model turned out in the end. Only looking forward to using Unreal again in the future
Zagreus – Hades
Work of Higinio Gonzalez
Long Ride Home
This is based on New York City subways in the 80’s. The original concept was to model a subway and create an uncomfortable atmosphere, whether it be from another person, an object or the environment. After looking for reference I found that the 70’s and 80’s New York subways were the dirtiest, and it went with the concept!
Long Ride Home
Work of Abraham Lara
