[Portfolio] Januarius Laygo, 3D artist

alphajayel

Hi!

I just graduated with BA in Multimedia Arts. I'm currently building up a portfolio of new works for future employment, and for art's sake. hehe

I just want to share my works with you guys, contribute to the community, and at least,try to get some feedback regarding on things I could still improve on, the stuff that I might be doing right or wrong or what not.

I hope to get a lot of CC's for my works, so I can improve further.

That's it. Thanks Guys!

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I don't have a website yet cause I still don't have that much to show. I will set-up one when I have enough works as contents for my folio.


here is something that I just recently finished:












here is a character I did during my internship:






and some stuff I did in Zbrush just for practice and fun:











That's all for now!

nathanbarrett

Holy hell those heads are incredible! Especially the 2nd to last one. What renderer did you use?

alphajayel

nathanbarrett wrote: »

Holy hell those heads are incredible! Especially the 2nd to last one. What renderer did you use?

Thanks man! The heads are rendered in Zbrush 4 with BPR. I used the traditional multi-pass method and comped them in Photoshop.

Grimmstrom

You've got a nice solid start to your portfolio, especially since your straight out of uni.

Two things that I would say are:

Eight images of your first character seems a little overkill. I'd much prefer 1 or 2 well presented boards containing a couple of shots rather than one

[LIST=2]I'd either remove the image below or change it too none coloured materials so that its more obvious that its the high poly model[/LIST]



Best of luck with the job searching

barnesy

I like what you have got so far, one thing that I did notice was the distortion on both of your character rigs :O , especially the 5th pic of the Acina character. The elbow is really tiny because of a imbalance of vertex weights.

Other than that , its a pretty sweet portfolio , really digging the head sculpts ,I am planning on doing something similar myself

alphajayel

Grimmstrom wrote: »

You've got a nice solid start to your portfolio, especially since your straight out of uni.

Two things that I would say are:

Eight images of your first character seems a little overkill. I'd much prefer 1 or 2 well presented boards containing a couple of shots rather than one

[LIST=2]I'd either remove the image below or change it too none coloured materials so that its more obvious that its the high poly model[/LIST]

Best of luck with the job searching

Thanks a lot Grimmstorm!

I apologize for going overkill, I just thought I needed to show more angles for the character I made. Think I got a little vain. I removed some of the images and the hi poly model as well like you suggested!

Thanks again!

alphajayel

barnesy wrote: »

I like what you have got so far, one thing that I did notice was the distortion on both of your character rigs :O , especially the 5th pic of the Acina character. The elbow is really tiny because of a imbalance of vertex weights.

Other than that , its a pretty sweet portfolio , really digging the head sculpts ,I am planning on doing something similar myself

Thank you for appreciating my work Barnesy!

Oh yeah, about that-- The rig that I used for my characters was pretty basic, and I really did not bother weighting them very well. I just wanted to be able to pose them. Because someone else will be assigned to do the animation rigs. But now that you mentioned it, I think I really should polish the rigging/ skinning too when I'm doing a character.

Thanks for noticing man!

I'd like to see your head sculpts too! good luck on that!

alphajayel

hi guys! just a little *bump* here. I kinda really need to hear some feedback so that I can improve more. I really want to improve on creating characters so I wanna know where my strengths and weaknesses are... Maybe I should post more works, but as of the moment, these are all I am able to show.

ambershee

I really like the design of the hard-surface head sculpt. It's definitely different.

BARDLER

My main gripe are the character poses. They lack movement and interest.

alphajayel

Jason526 wrote: »

Thanks for your post.

err.. sorry but I dint get it. XD thanks for what, exactly?

alphajayel

Ocie1 wrote: »

thanks a lot

I don't get it too.. why are you thanking me? sorry XD

alphajayel

ambershee wrote: »

I really like the design of the hard-surface head sculpt. It's definitely different.

Thank you. I kind of got different ideas from many pegs/ references. They are always useful.

alphajayel

BARDLER wrote: »

My main gripe are the character poses. They lack movement and interest.

Yeah, I think so too. I realized how hard it is to get interesting and dynamic poses for characters. Posing female characters is the hardest.

I'll keep that in mind next time I pose my characters. Thank you!