Hello everyone! I'm Ricardo Jost and I work as a character animator and CG artists. I live in Brazil, where I was born, and I'd like to share the creation pr...
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Making of Junk Tree Paradise
Hi all! For this tutorial I used a Wacom Intuous 2 tablet, Photoshop CS4 and Painter IX. Join me as I take you through a quick demonstration of my painting p...
Making of Garage
I decided to take a model from a short I was developing and use it to study lighting and shading with a cartoony look. I wanted to create an ambient, alien l...
Making of Refueling at OrMorFour
The first important thing I considered in my scene was the atmosphere. I started with a plain, fair weather spectral atmosphere with radiosity. Then I change...
Making of The Antagonist
The goal for this picture was to create a piece called 'The Antagonist', with a horror and science-fiction setting. I already knew I wanted to create a femal...
Making of Nightmate Stalker
After seeing this concept online, I decided to have a go at re-creating it in 3D. I usually do hard surface objects and not character/organic objects so I fa...
Making of F-14 Tomcat
This project is the largest I've ever attempted. It's been in development for around six months now, with me working constantly on it for a couple of hours e...
Making of Union Light and Power
I started this project with a very clear idea of what I wanted to produce: a scene with an old power station. I had a look for some nice reference on the int...
Making of Xing Tain
I'm glad to share the creation process of Xing Tain here. The original concept was based on a Chinese mythical character who I read about in a book: a brave ...
Making of Alien Baby
This alien baby was an old idea, which I first sculpted with clay five years ago. The clay sculpture was now a good reference for this 3D project ' in fact, ...
Making of Ornaments
I saw an illustration on purerender.com -The Chesterfield Project- and I was blown away by the level of detail! When I looked closer at the details, I saw so...
Making of Where the Music meets Fine Art
As I am a great music lover and I love lots of different musical styles, I decided to create a musical instrument. At first, I didn't know which one I was go...
Making of 1964 Peugeot 404
When modeling a car I generally try to find something different to build, something I haven't seen before (in 3D). I enjoy modeling older cars because I find...
Making of Play
The main inspiration behind Play was our living room wallpaper. I have a very similar bear sitting on top of a CD rack in front of the wallpaper, so I though...
Making of Asteroid N351
My primary goal was to make a picture and animation for a website. The concept for the characters wasn't mine, because the client had 2D sketches already...