Modern Lounge

OK I have been away for a while trying my hand in London, whiles I was there looking for work on the net and going from company to company I got to see the standards in quality of work that most of the 3D artists in the UK, I had come across a few fellow artists that did some work for Internal Decorators and I wanted to see if I could pull off something similar or better. In doing this side project I found quite refreshing from the usual character and media stuff that I normally work on.



Duration of Project: 1 And A Half Days

SteamPunk It

I'm a fan of Star Wars and a big fan of all things that are SteamPunk, so why not combine the two? I don't know if it has been done to a AT-ST Imperial Walker (for those of you who do not know what a walker is,well its the two legged mech that kind of resembles a chicken in the way it walks in Star Wars (Return Of The Jedi) and somewhere on youtube someone has done a video edit using the chicken song with these walkers). Anyways back to my model, so I firstly modelled the Walker to spec then went SteamPunk on it I don't knw if it was the right way to do it but hey it worked for me. This was also the first time I used Fluid Simulation for the smoke and so this was the out come.






Project Duration 4 Days with my own rig

The Valkyrie

Here Is a model that I have been so eager to do, since I was very young I wanted to design cars If I couldn't do that, I would have gone into animation and we all know how that turned out.

Anyways I had design a car that I thought looked Futuristic, Mind Blowing Fast, Slick and Gorgeous to look at. My inspiration for this design was the lambo LP640 and the Bugatti Veyron which in themselves are truly works of art and engineering And I only wish to reach such pure design and style.

So took my time on this one and its still going through changes as one can never be too happy with a design. You will see From the 1st design to the last one how much its change and yet stayed the same.

The word Valkyrie means "chooser of the slain", derived from Old Norse valr "the slain" and kyrja "chooser". In Norse myth the Valkyries were beautiful maidens who led heroes killed in battle to Valhalla, also known as the soldiers angel.
They themselves were fears warriors, Strong, Fast, and Beautiful hence why I have chosen the name Valkyrie for my concept car








Still a working progress....

My Demo Reel

Demo Reel 2010 from Dulcidio Soares on Vimeo.

Character design

I'm not just into modelling inanimate objects like cars and furniture, I also like making characters which is a whole new ball game when it comes down to it because you gotta think really well how and what your character is gonna do and that judges how you model it so here are a few that I have done. Note most biped (that's 2 legged) characters have a more or less the same structure.

Each character took approximately 2 Days with a full working rig thanks to setup machine.

Vespa Photograph

Ok so I modelled a Vespa since I think they are really cool. So for this little still I have one Area Light with shadow casting and two reflection boxes.

I also use a IBL system using a HDRI map. I rendered three passes: a Colour pass, a AO pass and, a Depth pass, its all then comped in Photoshop, where I did a few colour adjustments and extra details like the scratches on the photograph.




Project Duration: 3 Days

A loundge at sunset.

Here was a small project on lighting I set for myself. The aim of this was to light this lounge as if it were in sunset I started by modelling all the props for the set then texturing them and in the lighting it.

There are two area lights and one ambient light and then Globle Illum and Final Gather and for added reflections and lighting i also used a IBL using a random HDRI map for added effect :P.
I then took the imaged and did some post work on it just to get it to look just right.

Duration of Project: 4 Days