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Principal 3D Character Artist at @elodie_games . Former Riot, Blizzard, Nival. Personal art blog.

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6 days
Former blizzard employee starter pack: ✅ sword ✅ diablo figurine ✅ book of revelations
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3 years
"squatmarine" 🙃😆 Texturing in progress, generators only, hand pass later #warhammer40k #substancepainter #marmosettoolbag #phatmarine
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🔴⚫ É𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕔𝕙é 𝕤𝕥𝕪𝕝𝕚𝕤é ⚫🔴 Finished the thing, check out artstation drop👇 also lots of videos and timelapses
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2 years
More lunchtime Sokolova sculpting, did some cleanup
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2 years
Soboleva update, almost done, mostly small stuff left #WarhammerCommunity #warhammer40000 #marmoset #zbrush
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3 years
Some bakeporn for you all. Whitebake pass (no texturing done yet) #warhammer40k #phatmarine #marmosettoolbag
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1 year
First somewhat real attempt at @nomadsculpt , almost zero prior experience. Suprisingly easy and smooth transition over from #Zbrush , everything makes sense, things are where they should be, very intuitive. Love the long forgotten feeling of not fighting with software. This
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2 years
Jelly legs, 3D-concept from today’s stream
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2 years
Thinking of making a drop with this guy as free DL model, made it last year but never got to use it for real, just sits on my HDD collecting dust. Realtime-ready mesh, unrigged, with bake files and template texture. Any animators interested?
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19 days
@2xyoshiexploshi ngl my best purchase this month
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Vadim B
1 year
Hi #PortfolioDay , here's some @playseekers character renders of I made for @elodie_games Meet Zuraya, Lily, Kumu and Joon! Original designs by @foxcrusade and Ky Bui
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2 years
RizomUV been around few years now and people still unaware of its existence. Pretty much anything you can think of UV related : it has it, and also lightning fast with GPU support for precise packing. Will unwrap your 500k zremeshed mom in 2 seconds
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Corey Thomas
2 years
Ok, can we get PLEASE get AI to do this part? 😖
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2 years
Happy Friday 💀
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1 year
Some fun with #capcut while in flight Thanks to @aladosha for help with rigging, advanced skeleton is fantastic
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7 months
Walkcycle from maya advanced skeleton, 60 fps animation test #SoulCalibur
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1 year
#Tzeench sorceress. Doing small increments to this project once in a while. Now updated with new proportions, used to look chunky and awkward, this works much better #warhammer40k #WarhammerArt #zbrush OC by @Khantian
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2 years
Commissar Soboleva based on @khantian fanart of @Flick06484765 character, work in progress, #marmoset lookdev. #warhammer40k #WarhammerCommunity
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3 years
#phatmarine final highpoly before baking, zbrush
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8 months
Stylized anisotropic hair breakdown, thought I'd share here as I don't have time to make a video atm. Here's short version: Anisotropic reflection, vertical overlapping UV's, simple noise texture with faded edges, generated normalmap, opacity gradient to make tips fade.
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1 year
Posable hand with instanced fingers, with local symmetry and custom pivots. Idk what to call this workflow, but it's been a treat so far #nomadsculpt
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8 months
That moment when ZWrap works perfectly with 200 match points. Love this software, saved me hundreds of hours on retopology, absolute must for any 3D character artist
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2 years
working on gun design, blockout sort of done showing lever-action reload here missing extra bits inside to fill the gaps, also case needs some vent holes #hypernova
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3 years
@PBarnev
Pavel Barnev
3 years
Run&Gun #Animation .Collab with @slipgatecentral Used scripts: - basic OverRig scripts - advanced Animation Layer tool - walk animation tutorial #warhammer40k #warhammer #squatmarine
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Vadim B
1 year
Realistic skin study in #nomadsculpt , with polypaint and layers, feels great to be able to do this in one app. #abolishUVs
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Vadim B
21 days
long promised stylized PBR hair breakdown! Not touching on how I modeled it, can be done in million different ways, but what's more important is how scene is lit and how material reacts to lights.
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Vadim B
7 months
old friend Polymesh3D
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Vadim B
2 years
Building pores with new warp projection in #Substancepainter . Holy shit what a game changer, I absolutely hated photobashing these and using crazy workarounds with Zwrap. Now feels like a breeze
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2 years
Jacket mostly done, face and hair next.
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Vadim B
2 years
OMG 😱 Look at this mini Blood Angel painted by Ivan, also custom base 😍 siiiiiick Ivan's IG, check his builds: #bloodangels #warhammer40k #3Dprinting #spacemarine
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Vadim B
8 months
Why would I ever give up 3D to gAI 🫥
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Vadim B
3 years
hair FX prototype, works for now but going to randomize animation rate later. ewqwq ewq qwe qwe #m1nt #marmosettoolbag #rtj
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Vadim B
2 years
Figured I’d rather make an ongoing thread of this WIP instead of cluttering my feed with single tweets. Here’s small update, didn’t do much today, face will take forever before I start liking it. #girlhammer
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2 years
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7 months
Updating hair for Taki, WIP, trying to get a blend of PBR/stylized look in marmoset. Hard but fun, have to juggle 4 things at once: mesh, material, textures, lights to get the desired effect Similar workflow I used for witch:
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Vadim B
8 months
Stylized anisotropic hair breakdown, thought I'd share here as I don't have time to make a video atm. Here's short version: Anisotropic reflection, vertical overlapping UV's, simple noise texture with faded edges, generated normalmap, opacity gradient to make tips fade.
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Vadim B
2 years
QRT with art faces Wish I had more
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@rikard86
Riccardo Morgia
2 years
Yeah I'll bite QRT with your art faces ppls
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Vadim B
1 year
fuck this dude
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The Fat Four
1 year
early rig tests with rough proxy model!
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Vadim B
6 months
my crude animation attempt little bro loves his derpy gun🤡
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Vadim B
2 years
Proto-FatFuck mega-drop!!! 💿 📀🍾 OG Fatmarine bundle available on Gumroad, free to use. Go get the files and make some cool shit with him :D Textures should be very easy to modify in Substance. Download link below, please share and RT!
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Vadim B
2 years
Thinking of making a drop with this guy as free DL model, made it last year but never got to use it for real, just sits on my HDD collecting dust. Realtime-ready mesh, unrigged, with bake files and template texture. Any animators interested?
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Vadim B
1 year
#PortfolioDay keeps delivering every time, so many awesome artists I haven't seen Here's my stuff, sharing some of the recent character work I did for @elodie_games Designs by @foxcrusade and Ky Bui Animations by Lorenzo Colaiori and Warren Goff
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1 year
I don’t usually retweet UVs but damn boiii
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小川
1 year
わかる人にはわかる私のスマホのロック画面
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26 days
Update!
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29 days
Some work done on Hesperax model today, making friends with GS Curve tools, interactive curve rebuild is _the_ shit
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2 years
Quick portrait lighting study. Can't wait to add textures, will make it so much better
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Vadim B
1 year
WIP, new OC, done from scratch in #nomadsculpt Using all the tricks I learned so far Refraction materials 💕
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Vadim B
5 months
Hesperax, messing around in Nomad
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Vadim B
2 years
Hypernova , inspired by Starcraft's Nova and many other futuristic sniper women that all look the same, so here's another one Character design study in 3D, trying to get these done quicker, #Zbrush sculpt ~10 hours so far. Needs some gun
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1 year
@kepler_kat @Beami_12 Things you do for 7.3 million views…
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1 year
rate my new setup 🦧 #nomadsculpt #MetaQuest
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8 months
Started Taki for #SculptJamFighting challenge 6-7 hours blockout from basemesh, everything is an early WIP #SOULCALIBUR
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Vadim B
2 years
Chunkmarine just got real! Few more things to polish for better fit. Original #McFarlane marine next to him for comparison, happy with this size #3dprinting #warhammer40k #anycubic
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17 days
use 50mm for everything, never wrong
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Dustin Hollywood
19 days
Learning time.. many don’t know or are not yet using lenses and camera’s in their work. Don’t worry you will, that’ll be the difference at some point, so this is a great representation of what lenses do to your field of view and subject based on its focal length. It’s dramatic,
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10 months
My character rendering and lighting studies done in last 4-5 years. Mostly in #marmosettoolbag , some in #nomad Biggest quality jump happened around introduction of #RTX , realtime PBR rendering came long way.
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Vadim B
2 years
Back to this guy after a long break, 3d print prep, did some cleanup and initial posing, gonna do some test prints and then decide how to cut it for easier printing.
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Vadim B
3 years
check out run cycle @PBarnev did for our squatboi, holy shit lol #warhammer40k #warhammer #ultramarines #phatmarine
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Pavel Barnev
3 years
Run cycle #animation test, collaboration with @slipgatecentral - animation process timelaps #warhammer40k #warhammer #squatmarine
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Vadim B
3 months
Anatomy study WIP; started working on this styized female ekorche few days ago, following @KRRK_JP anatomy breakdowns. Check their media tab, lots of useful renders that helped me with less obvious things.
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Vadim B
3 months
latest update of my ecorche study project based on @KRRK_JP research Still doing some work on the skin and face, should probably wrap it up and pose. hair borrowed from Marceleen, hope not permanently 😬
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Vadim B
11 months
This is the first time I constrained IK hands to a weapon prop, after somebody told me. 10/10
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The Fat Four
11 months
Testing blockout wepos fit and proportions, kinda fun process with functional rig. Using Maya Advanced Skeleton plugin. Trying to cover most common guns here, melee wepos next
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Vadim B
2 years
What’s happening
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Vadim B
2 years
So, apparently Twitter will penalize engagement for posting direct urls, and will boost for any media attachments, so here's another turntable and link to my Twitch below, I'm wrapping this up tonight #hypernova
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Vadim B
8 months
In motion Hair done in Nomadinio❤️using curve tubes
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Vadim B
2 years
Whatever came out of substance just didn't click with maya Arnold, instead tried building procedural copper following Arvid's videos, looks nice
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2 years
Turntable with little bling. 🎧🎶Chester - Yokai
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2 years
Getting used to #marmoset surfacing workflow, very powerful thing, Bye-bye substance, raytraced PBR in the house, all I want now is 4090 and 4k cintiq to fit more UI panels
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Vadim B
7 months
My submission to ‘Sculpt Jam - Fighting’ challenge, Taki from #soulcalibur series Will post more to Artstation later, stay tuned 😈
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Vadim B
8 months
here's THE pro tip If you struggling with hand anatomy like myself
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Vadim B
6 months
Platonic solid appretiation post wtf I hate spheres now
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2 years
Rough pose in Nbrush, took forever didn't need to, but legs.
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Added secondary and tertiary hair strands (flyaways) This worked really well tbh, surprisingly. Breakdown soon, but VOD of me working with this model available on my twitch page
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Vadim B
2 years
For those who asked for an STL! Get it here for free, share it with your printing buddies, print, take pics and tag @CollectFatFucks 🤣😂
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The Fat Four
2 years
here we fucking go get your first ever 3d-printable fatfuck here:
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Vadim B
8 months
This Sora is awesome! The other one is not 🙃
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MRS
8 months
✍🏻 Sora!! From #KingdomHearts 👑🖤 #Sora #Zbrush we have in mind to make a print test.. sometime
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Vadim B
1 year
@Khantian Throwing model to Nomad to block in the face, find it much easier with some basic lights and proper camera
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Vadim B
6 months
Some of these advanced painting techniques translate really well into stylized texturing. Figure painters were always a huge inspiration and source of knowledge. I mean, just look at this:
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akaihoshi2004
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足(肌)の塗装法のポストが結構伸びてフォロワーさんも若干増えました。この塗装法は過去何度かTwitter(当時)で公開してるし、リアル展示会などでも紙に印刷したものを配っていますが、私の力不足のためまだ見てもらってない方も多いと思うので塗装法を再掲します。どうぞご覧ください。
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Vadim B
2 years
hide-the-pain Andariel retouching old D1 fanart
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Vadim B
1 year
So this time gave SD a better prepared zbrush render, stylized for better readability, with clean lineart and higher res depth map. Different combinations of img2img, inpaint, Dreamshaper+PornMerge models. Last 15% polish in Marmoset tests next.
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Vadim B
9 months
Kicking off first #PortfolioDay of 2024 with some older HoTS characters I worked on at Blizzard Team 1. I think we had really nice synergy going with @raspbearyart and @MrJackArt before whole thing went sideways. Good times.
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10 days
Glove update, looking better but still not there Untextured render from marmoset
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5 months
Sick character work! wonder who's behind all that
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Vadim B
2 years
Got a face for Yoon-Ji sort of locked, hair is WIP, costume obviously too, plan to work on it tomorrow. More I dig into PBR, less I understand what the fuck am I doing at the sculpting stage, no matcap will do justice, 2 totally different looking faces. Even in Marmoset each
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1 year
new #iPadPro working setup, now with active cooling 🥵
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3 months
@TaskandPurpose Generation Kill is an iconic piece, never forget, RIP Evan
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2 years
Technically still a turnaround… #hypernova
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2 years
Modular shoulderpads 💕refining the build step by step
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Vadim B
2 years
Tests from 2022, rigged and animated by @PBarnev
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1 year
New shoes
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7 months
Some stuff is unfinished, I'll keep iterating, but holy shit the fact that it's all working together and not falling apart is a breakthrough for me. Gonna pair up with pro animator so she can kick and cut #soulcalibur
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1 year
Love this pose, gonna keep it
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The Fat Four
1 year
Fencer stance
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Vadim B
10 months
W40K: #RogueTrader is finally out! Happy to share renders of collectors edition statue I made last year for @OwlcatGames . This is navigator Cassia Orsellio. More renders and behind the scenes on Artstation, link below
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Vadim B
4 years
Here is another work in progress I’d like to share.This Assassin based off Warhammer 40k fan-art concept done by @Khantian : the very talented fx artist who does concepting as a hobby. Music by @woodmoodmusic on Instagram #assassin #warhammer40k #toolbagmarmoset
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Vadim B
29 days
Some work done on Hesperax model today, making friends with GS Curve tools, interactive curve rebuild is _the_ shit
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Vadim B
3 years
UVs next
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Vadim B
24 days
Trying something new for eyebrows Drukhari eyes 👁️👀👁️
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Vadim B
1 year
“Your portfolio is mostly gals, you should diversify, make some dudes” Me:
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Vadim B
2 years
Finally done with first FatFuck kit, now available on my Patreon: Direct purchase will be available later through Gumroad and Artstation. Planned more content for next few months, stay tuned!
@the_Fat4
The Fat Four
2 years
Ok, finally here! Patreon page is up. Currently only one $10 sub tier, planning to add more tiers and content later. First official FatFuck #0001 is up for grabs, go get it now!
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Vadim B
1 year
Ravenna Obscura, character portrait I started on sunday stream. Supposed to be short design and presentation study, early WIP, just done messing with cloth.
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Vadim B
4 years
Here is a wip of hard-surface version of Zem - an undead race from Allods online mmorpg. Mask or no mask? 🤔 Also got new fancy logo by @baatrdesign on Instagram . . . #zem #allods #undead #zbrush #maya #characterdesign #3dart #3d #hardsurface
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