Andre Castel

New portfolio

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 13 May 2014 20:09:00 +0000

I finally managed to set up a new portfolio/blog. I'm in the process of transfering the material from this blog as well. Go check it out.

www.andrecastelart.com

Spacious

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:04:00 +0000

As I'm trying to develop my own games (for fun and experience) I decided to participate on One Game a Month and for the month of January I worked on this little game using Unity 4.3 new 2D tools.

I finish the game in one month, but later used a couple of more days for some tweaks and bug fixes. The game is very simple but helped me develop my javascript skills as well as helped me understand some new things on Unity 3D.

The game can be played at http://www.kongregate.com/games/andrecastel/spacious or here (kongregate is blocked in some places).

I'm planning on doing a little tutorial and making the game open source. It will be coming soon... I might start doing another blog just for my game developing adventures.

Some screenshots:

Carlinhos Character Rig

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:15:00 +0000

I decided to prepare a little video showing a bit of the rig for the Carlinhos character.

Lowpoly and Sketchfab

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:27:00 +0000

Giving Sketchfab a try bringing back an old 3D model.

I kind of brought back to life an old project as part of my studies of low poly modelling and workflow for game characters. I'm working on taking him to Unity 3D, but for now I uploaded him to Sketchfab and liked the result, I'll try to use Sketchfab more often for my coming projects.

Dia de Carlinhos

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:49:00 +0000

Short movie produced by my friend Alex Simões where I modeled and rigged the main character called "Carlinhos".

The video was made on behalf of "Casa Hope" (a brazilian institution that helps children in cancer treatment) and you can find more info here: https://www.facebook.com/diadecarlinhos (portuguese).

Concept

Zbrush - highpoly

Rigging

And you can watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EO5d3khi_LQ&hd=1

Some "recent" work

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:08:00 +0000

Not really "recent" work, only if compared to the rest of the work I've posted here. These are just a few of the art that I've done last year (2012) at Inertia Game Studios.

Right now we're working on some mobile games and I will soon post some of my work on them.

New job at Inertia

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:53:00 +0000

A quick post to register my new job.
I've just started working at Inertia game studios (http://www.inertiasoftware.com/) as a 3D artist. I'll be doing mostly modelling, texturing and rendering. And a few bits of animation.
I'm excited about the job... and I'll finally have some more time for side projects.

p.s. Don't forget to check my online portfolio as well at andrecastel.eu.pn

Some concepts and sketches

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:09:00 +0000

I was asked to make some drawings as a test and since it didn't work out I'm posting them here.

Personal Project - Cowboy WIP 2 (texturing)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:37:00 +0000

Continuing this project... I don't have much to talk about but have some images to show the work progress.

I've done all the texturing in Zbrush and there's no way to not fall in love with the software, it's amazing and I learned a lot working on this character, I've learned some new techniques (new to me) and had a blast, every time I have to do something in Zbrush I learn something new that amazes me.

Click in any of the images to enlarge them

Here he's still very new and clean.

I used a lot of real textures applying them with Spotlight and painted over to fit the character and the desired style. Then I made a lot of alphas to make the seams and some other little details.

With the "clean" textures done I started to make them dirty and "used".

Added the seams and some details of the shirt.

Detail of the new belt buckle. Wyoming style!

Now the textures are pretty much the way I wanted so I did the unwrap with a good combination of the wonderful UV master (in Zbrush) and fixing some of them in 3ds max as well.

His right boot.

A new look with a "beautiful" scar.

A render of the legs with the textures done.

He's still missing the hair, eyebrows and a fancy mustache.

I guess the texture is done!

It's time to export the meshes and all the textures back to 3ds max (or Maya, I'm not sure yet) so the fun can start... rigging time! (in the next post)

Personal Project - Cowboy WIP 1

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:16:00 +0000

I've started working on a personal project to improve my portfolio and try some techniques. I'm working with my friend who is an animator (yes... once in a while animators stop complaining about rigs and have some friends... jk) and we're planning a short story (maybe) or something else to do with this model.
It's a work in progress but I would like to show some of my steps so far.

Concept
We decided to go for a cowboy after watching Rango too much (not really, but it's a great movie) and as I had almost started modeling one for a couple of times.
And we chose to have a clean model with not so many details but work a bit more on the textures.
So after a few sketches, here's the chosen concept.

Concept Art / Character sheet

Modelling
So I started modelling in 3dsmax, started with a box then divided a couple of times and gave the basic form following the character sheet. I didn't worry too much about the loops at this stage, specially for the head. With the base mesh done I sent it to zbrush to set the proportions right and smooth some parts. Back to 3dsmax (thank goZ) I played as Jack the ripper and separated him in a few parts (to make the clothes and accessories).

The Modelling steps

Again in Zbrush was time to go into more details, sculpting time! It's a fun process...

Zbrush is awesome! Click to enlarge

The head

It wasn't yet sculpted in full details, it was time to work in the topology.
So I exported from Zbrush a higher mesh (not the highest because I would not be able to work in 3dsmax) and used a great free script called Max_Retopo which made this job much easier.
Since it's gonna be used for a video I didn't have to worry too much about poly counting, but I tried to keep it not too high.

Head Retopology - I uesd some lines for a start then transformed them in polys.

It still need some tweaks (specially in the arms) but it's getting there

This is all for now, I'll try to post more in one or two weeks.

A few problems...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:50:00 +0000

Well, I was preparing a new show reel (the one I have is outdated) then my Hard Drive decides to "quit its job"... it´s not working anymore. I´ve tried to recover the data but it´s gonna get too expensive and it has too little chances to work.
So I lost all my past and ongoing works... Unfortunately I won´t have a new show reel too soon.
I have to start my work life all over again, but I see as a great opportunity to have a fresh start, to get new ideas and new projects!

New site/portfolio!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:28:00 +0000

A lot of changes in my life, so I decided to finish the design of my new site/portfolio.
Check it out at:
www.andrecastel.eu.pn
I'm still preparing and adding some more recent material, but this one I'll be always updating, as well as the blog.

Água na Oca

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:18:00 +0000

For about 6 months (last year) we worked on some of the videos for the exposition "Agua na Oca".
I was in charge of the creation of most of the animals (3D models). The highlight of the exposition is a video shown in a 40 meter projection on the building´s ceiling where the visitors watch a the trajectory of a coin going down the ocean until the depths of the seas.

Cheack out at the "3D modelling" area of my site to see more details about my work on this project.

Museu das Minas e do Metal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:33:00 +0000

At Archimidia we´ve just finished a job for the "Museu das Minas e do Metal"(Museum of mining and metal) in Belo Horizonte - MG (Brazil). I´ve worked in this project creating (concept, model, texture, rig) over 10 characters (and animating some of them) for the animations shown in different areas of the Museum´s permanent exhibition.

I´ll soon post a link showing some of the animations and a quick "Making of".

Intro

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:08:00 +0000

My name is André Victor Geuer Castel, 25 years-old, I´ve been working with digital art since 2004. Coming from a family of artists I´ve always had a great passion for drawing and painting.
I´ve been learning 3D for about 5 years. I´ve never had the chance to study 3D or any other kind of computer graphics because of the lack of this sort of school in Brazil, but that made me develop some skills which help me till today, as self education, motivation and the thirsty for knowledge. I learned to work and develop my criativity to overcome some limitations, so I can easily adapt myself to the circumstances, changes and limitations.
I´ve been working with 3dsMax since 2005 and I´ve already worked on pretty much every production area on it. Modelling, texturing, lighting, rigging, animation and render. But for now I´m trying to specialize on characters´ designer.
And this´s my new space to share and publish my work and studies.
I guess this will be the easiest way to do so and keep it updated.

I hope you like it.