Game character did during the course at CGSociety held by Katon Callaway (God of war III) on creating high-end fantasy game characters. 10800 tris, 2x 2048 maps diffuse, spec, gloss, normal.

Based on a concept by Bjorn Hurri.

Software used: Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop, XNormal, Marmoset Toolbag.

Software used: Zbrush

Sculpt commissioned for an article on sculpting a Phoenix and focusing on the sculpting of fiery feathers.

The article has been published in the 3D Artist Magazine, issue#26 March 2011.

Watch it in HD!

Project done in collaboration with Drawlight Studio for a 3D Stereoscopic presentation.

I was in charge to recreate the 3d model of the famous painting “Autumn” by Arcimboldo; texturing, shading and stereo render done by Drawlight.

It was a great project, thanks to the whole team for the great result in a such tight deadline!

Software used: Maya, Zbrush.

Horse anatomy study, it’s part of a bigger personal project I’m working on.

Software used: Maya, Zbrush, Mental Ray.

Skilltest done for a character artist position at Naughty Dog. It’s a personal interpretation of their character Eddy Raja from Uncharted. I followed their spec about polycount and the end bust is around 16k tris because of a very detailed facial topology. I created one 2048 map for diffuse, specular, ambient occlusion and normal map. All the textures are hand painted with custom brushes, no photo source has been used. Rendered in realtime inside Marmoset Toolbag.

Software used: Maya, Zbrush, XNormal, Photoshop, Marmoset Toolbag.

Illustration done for an article on creature design and development for the November 2010 Issue #63 of the 3D Creative Magazine.
I was aked to design from scratch a monster given an habitat, the sewer in my case. I did a lot of researches about the environment and the features of the animals that live on this habitat and then I developed a belivable creature based on my studies.

I was lucky enough to get featured on the upcoming Digital Art Masters Vol.6 published by 3D Total Publishing with a full article on the making of for this monster; they just sent me a mail announcing they are producing a set of playing cards based on the book and the first 200 people to pre order the book will receive a pack of these cards for free, very cool! It’s a very nice surprise, honored to be part of this book!

Here is the official link to pre order the book:

http://shop.3dtotal.com/books/digital-art-masters/digital-art-masters-volume-6.html

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The image “Sewer Dwelling Monster” has been selected to be part of the upcoming “Exotique 6″ book published by Ballistic Publishing! It’s a big honor for me to be featured once again in one of the most important publication of the CG industry; here you have a book preview:

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Award:

CgHub.com Editor’s Pick

Daily Deviation on Deviantart.com

CG Gallery Picture Selection on itsartmag.com

Software used: Maya, Zbrush, Mental Ray, Photoshop.

Model done for a private client for rapid prototyping; the final model will be 30cm tall.

The project was very interesting since I had to reconstruct the princess’ bust with very few references collected in internet; the result is a mix of accurate research on different pictures, statues and paintings.

Software used: Zbrush, 3ds Max, Vray, Photoshop.

Software used: Zbrush, 3dsMax, Photoshop, Vray

I’ve been working on this creature for a contest of an italian forum (treddi.com) involving the sculpting of a fantasy creature.
I choose a creature from the “Monster Manual 3.5″ of Dangeons & Dragons, it’s called “Ethereal Filcher”.
You can find the original concept here. Because I didn’t like the leg I asked to Mike Corriero if he could help me out to find a better solution to the one legged creature. He was so kind to send me a rough sketch of his interpretation involving a split hip joint leading to one limb. I like so much his version that I finally choose his one for the final creature. I think that Mike’s solution give a better solidity to this poorly balanced creature.
I then start creating the base mesh in Silo and once finished I exported it to Zbrush and started sculpting.
The contest itself is just about sculpting so right now I’m done with it, but I like so much how this weird creature has come out that I want to texture it and do for it a still image. So in the next days I will be working on its textures.

Software used: Silo, Zbrush.

Digital double of Vin Diesel starring Riddick in the movie “The Chronicles of Riddick”.

Featured on the 3DCreative Magazine June 2010 issue Gallery.

Software used: 3Ds Max, Zbrush, Mental Ray, Photoshop.