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Minion!!

Posted by vsantos on

It’s been a while since my last animation work but I thought this is the best character to return to the great world of 3D animation, It was really funny to model a Minion from “Despicable me” but it’s going to be awesome to move it!

Modelled in 3DsMax (low poly model around 2000 tris), rigged with Autodesk CAT, I made in a couple of days with 2048×2048 texture maps and rendered with Nvidia Mental Ray.

You can see the 3D model in Sketchfab

Minion (click to view in 3D)Minion

Original concept of “Despicable me” by Illumination entertainment and Universal Pictures.

EXILED – First Screenshots

Posted by vsantos on

The last week was one of the happiest (and busiest) in my life, and I’d like to share it through my work. As you know I’m one of the co-founders of Knitted Pixels, the indie game studio behind Defenders of the Last Colony (PC /Xbox 360) and also Lead Environment Artist, we’re working really hard to make a stunning second game, it’s gonna be legendary for sure, EXILED it’s already announce and the last week we upload a few images to give you a very welcome to his magic world.

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EXILED logo

We’ve been published at structure gaming:

http://www.structuregaming.com/2013/04/25/first-screenshots-of-upcoming-game-exiled-by-knitted-pixels/

Cheers!!

March of War

Posted by vsantos on

Hi there! I’m going to show one of the projects that I’ve been working for the last months as environment artist. This time for ISOTX, creators of the Iron Grip strategy series.

March of War is a cross platform free-to-play turn-based strategy MMO, the game is in closed beta and will be released for PC, MAC, iOS and Android in Q2/Q3 of 2013.

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More info here:

https://marchofwar.isotx.com/

Beretta 92FS

Posted by vsantos on

Hi there!

Celebrating my first month as 3D art teacher I’m gonna post the first model of my Master class at Tooning 3D art school, this time it will be a Beretta 92FS gun, it’s been a really great practice for my students so far I’ve seen great potential in them.

I made this gun in 3DsMax (1500 tris), textures in Photoshop (2048×2048) and rendered with my brand new license of Marmoset Toolbag.

(Click to enlarge)

Beretta 92FS
Beretta 92FS


M1A1 Abrams tank

Posted by vsantos on

Hello!

Finally! I finished my M1A1 Abrams tank model, it’s been a hell of a work but it’s completely worthy, If I normaly enjoy my work this time was epic fun.

About the work, here’s a couple of renders from 3DsMax, 2048×2048 textures and It’s rigged. I’m gonna try sell it for Unity Engine at the Unity Asset Store.

M1A1 Abrams Tank - front Back_Beauty

I hope you like it!

Thorian

Posted by vsantos on

I want to continue with my study of the Art of Mass Effect Universe  art-book.

This time I wanted to make something different, something… alive!

So I had to make a “Thorian”, it’s  an egg hanging on the wall waiting for you to make contact to release an alien to attack you, It’s kind of creepy, huh? But still good Sci-Fi concept.

I made it in a few days in 3DsMax and Photoshop for the 2048×2048 textures.

Cheers!!

First Aid Station

Posted by vsantos on

Hi there!

A week ago I bought “The art of Mass Effect Universe” and I’m totally stunned with this art book, a “must-have” for an artist. I decided to make some props of the game based on the concept art of the book and I just finished the first one!

The first aid station it’s (obviously) a prop to cure yourself in the game, I made it in 3DsMax, textured in Photoshop and rendered in UDK,  370 polys in his low-poly version.

I hope you like it!

Cheers!

SciFi Corridor – WIP

Posted by vsantos on

Hi there!

It’s been a while since my last post, I’ve been kind of distracted and busy but I’m focused now in finishing this Sci-Fi Corridor. I’m making it modular so I’m just gonna use a single texture for the whole sheet, as always I’m gonna render and build it in UDK.

Cheers!

WIP

WIP #2

The worlds of Defenders of the last Colony

Posted by vsantos on

Hello there!

I’m very happy to show you the 12 worlds of Defenders of the last Colony, the indie game by Knitted Pixels ( website ), it’s been a nice challenge for me because I’ve never made high quality artworks but I think that the result is quite good so far.

I made 9 worlds and improved another 3 worlds made by my brother Sergio ( online portfolio ).

I hope you like it!

Click to full screen view