It really depends on how stylized the model is. How do you decide which look you are going to achieve in your personal work, and are what the challenges for each of them? You manage to jump from a handpainting texturing style to realistic rendering work. It won’t always look perfect as-is and may very well break some stuff, but it will also highlight the areas where I have been too shy and could have pushed a little more.īut overall, the key is to not lose focus on what makes a character interesting. It will exaggerate the modifications I made. When I’m done and feel satisfied with the result, I set this layer’s influence to 150%. For instance, when I make a correction in a sculpting program, whether it’s fixing some proportions, emphasizing an expression, or just modifying the shape of a nose, I make that modification on a layer. Then there are other tricks, like “taking it to 11”. When I pick one I really like, I ask myself, “Ok, what makes this one so special, what is it that I like so much about it?” Once I have spotted that shape, that particular face, or a dynamic pose, I really try to focus on it and make sure I don’t lose it during the many iterations of the modeling process. There are tons of great concepts I’d love to make in 3D but there are only 24 hours in a day, so I have to be very selective. Most of my personal work is based on other artists’ concepts.
Do you follow any rules or guidelines to bring this emotional level to your art? When we look at your characters, we can almost feel their personalities through their look and their pose. Since then, I have been working in several studios in France and Belgium, doing all sorts of modeling and lately I have been taking shading more seriously.And that’s how I got into Substance Painter. I kept doing some freelance work and in 2010, I was hired by nWave Digital in Brussels to work as a character modeler on animated features. That’s when I realized I could actually make a living from something I enjoyed more than my current job at the time. In 2007 I was approached by Blur Studio to do some freelance work. I studied computer science and worked as a software developer for four years while I kept doing 3D stuff for fun, still in 3ds Max. I had no idea of what I was doing: there were no tutorials back then. I was introduced to 3D modeling back in high school, in the late 90s, with 3ds Max 2.0. I’m 34 years old, from France but have been living in Belgium for the past six or so years. First things first: can you introduce yourself to the Allegorithmic community?
Hi Olivier, thanks for taking the time to answer our questions.
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