Dorothy Ballarini - Character Artist showreel

Dorothysb

Hello everyone, I have just updated my demoreel and uploaded it to my Vimeo channel.
I hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I enjoyed working on it.
If you want to contact me, please follow the links on my signature to my portfolio and my LinkedIn account.

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Any feedback, criticizm and compliments are very welcome, thanks

haikai

Nice stuff! I would have liked to have seen some texture flats just to get a sense of how you lay out your UVs and handle the different maps, but it's pretty obvious you know what you're doing with them.

lampekap

amazingly impressive works, u got. I love the dynamic pose of the satyr/goatgirl character, especially how u can see the bending of the belly muscles, following the path of the curve. Did you rig her and then pose sculpt the stretching and folds accordingly, or did you sculpt her from this pose right at the start?

catstyle

great work, I especially liked the dinosaur and the monkey thing.. they were stunning!

Dorothysb

Thanks guys!

* Haikai - I agree with youregarding the UvMaps. That's something I really think it's missing.... But I was about to do this reel for years, and I had to finish it at one point... Anyway, showing textures and Uvmaps will be my next step

*lampekap - Thanks for the compliments, and I regarding the the satyres' pose, I made a simple rig and then I exported to zbrush ( I made a few corrections using thanspose tool, as well ).

* Catstyle - Many thanks

BlvdNights

Really good stuff. One thing I'd like to see is a character in a game engine, and if you could, get it to be playable as well.

Arhurt

Wow I didn't see this coming!

It's always nice to see your work, and your new reel is definitely impressive! I especially like the big demon.

And I want an action figure of this: http://media.cmcdn.net/6934016/940x1241.jpeg

bern3d

i love the dinosaurs videos

Dorothysb

Thank you guys

*Arhurt, actually modeling the lady with the gun is my next project, I'll post it here when I have it done.

SimonT

Or better: post also WIP steps

Question: What did you do in the advert. scenes?

Dorothysb

Hi Simon,

Actually I should posted this video with a propper breakdown, but here it goes:

On the first ad I've modeled and textured the elephant.
On the second scene I made the model and texturing of the bufallos.
On the third scene I've modeled and textured the gecko.
And finally, on the last one I've modelled and textured de Dinos for BBC.

Thanks for he cimpliments, and btw, I'll provide some more images of the wireframes and wip as well

Cheers

Arac

Very nice work and presentation.

Quick off-topic question: what's the title of the song in your reel?

Dorothysb

Yes, It's a beautiful music The title is Miss you ( Trentemoller ). Here goes the youtube link, if tou want to listen to the whole sound: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DUCKGyojpE&feature=artist[/ame]

Cheers

Spitfire

Amazing work, truly inspiring!

Jungsik

WoW! your work is very inspiring! I hope to be as good as you one day and be a character artist <_<

Dorothysb

Many thanks Jungsick! I bet you will be a great character artist, and if you need some tips, please feel free to ask, I'll be glad to help you.
Cheers

JasonLavoie

I love how you put so much "action" into each of your pieces, ther always seems to be movement even when its just a still.

Awesome work

Mark Dygert

Awesome, awesome, amazing work... just wow...

JasonLavoie wrote: »

I love how you put so much "action" into each of your pieces, ther always seems to be movement even when its just a still.

Awesome work

Yep I agree, I love the snap shot of motion, very inspirational. I hope you do that just for dramatic effect it would drive animators and character riggers nuts.

bounchfx

really great stuff, thanks for sharing. I agree with Jason too, having posed characters vs just a T pose really adds a lot of life to them. Great music too.

Minos

Great work Dorothy

Dorothysb

Vig wrote: »

Awesome, awesome, amazing work... just wow...

Yep I agree, I love the snap shot of motion, very inspirational. I hope you do that just for dramatic effect it would drive animators and character riggers nuts.

Sure, it's just for the "dramatic effect" (I think that the T pose id tooo boring). Despite the fact I work on the games industries, I made this reel based on how it is made for films, and I think that the characters look way better like that

fabio brasilien

Great work! You have a lot of good stuff.
If you don´t mind some extra crits...:\
I just fell your demo reel is too long. There are a lot of great stuff on there but I think it should be shorter. At the end you have some concept that are great, but I didn´t see at the first time I watched your video...I´ve seen them on your portfolio though.
Also some text or anything that explains what you have done on them. Now looks like you did everything (environment, animation, modeling...)
BTW great stuff! :thumbup:

Dorothysb

fabio brasilien wrote: »

Great work! You have a lot of good stuff.
If you don´t mind some extra crits...:\
I just fell your demo reel is too long. There are a lot of great stuff on there but I think it should be shorter. At the end you have some concept that are great, but I didn´t see at the first time I watched your video...I´ve seen them on your portfolio though.
Also some text or anything that explains what you have done on them. Now looks like you did everything (environment, animation, modeling...)
BTW great stuff! :thumbup:

Hello Fabio!

Critics are very wellcome as well . I agree with you, I think that my demo is too long. I'm considering taking off some unnecessary stuff, like parts of some films and such...
Regarding the explanation about what I've done in each part, I've made a separated breakdown which I think it's the common procedure for this kind of reel. But, just in case I'll take a look on more reels to find if there is a better way to do that without making the reel even longer and boring...
Maybe I should keep the 3 first models, adding some texturing, lights and a better rendering.
Many thanks for your inputs!

Cheers

afisher

Great work, the details on the dinosaur is amazing.

cholden

Love this portfolio. Lovely demo reel. Great work, Dorothy, thanks for sharing.

Mezz

Wow wow wow!!! Really amazing stuff!!
I love each piece, they're all incredibly impressive!! Thanks for posting, it was very inspirational to see!!

Jungsik

yay !! <_<