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30 Character in 30 Days | Let the fun begin!

Omar_Ramirez — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:35:56 +0000

So, I just found out about this awesome challenge called the 30 Character Challenge (slowpoke) In which, all through November, you make 30 brand new characters along with many other creatives (both illustrators and writers).

My themes for this year are really simple: “Pin-up” and “Urban Subcultures”.

I have an ever growing list of subcultures I find visually interesting, I’ll take one entry from this list every day of November and turn them into something appealing, sexy and visually pleasing.

Once the challenge is finished (and, hopefully, I have 30 new designs) the ones I like the most I’ll turn into fully rendered illustrations, free to download wallpaper and prints that will be available in my Society6 Shop.

This is what you’ll see from me (hopefully) every day of November:

In order to keep myself sane and since I already have a ton of stuff on my plate, I’ll be designing everything but the color palette for the challenge, Not only so I can actually make it, but also because the color schemes might dramatically change when I take the characters for production purposes.

I’m really excited about this challenge, Who else is going to participate?

A little note
The image above in something for another project I’ll be working on (probably near the holidays). A re-imagining of the cast of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic as humans (Yes, I am a Brony) Starting with my very favourite Rarity. More on that later.

Cubes | Prints Available

Omar_Ramirez — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:21:23 +0000

You had already seen this piece in this other post. But, as I stated there, this piece is the only finished one, so I figured it deserved a spot in the Artwork category.

Also, This piece can be purchased as a print in my new Society 6 Shop, have a look!

3D for 2D

Omar_Ramirez — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:46:54 +0000

Lately, I’ve been working a lot on my notebook (the paper one) and not so much on the computer.

Since I have a new, not yet disclosed, project, I’ve come to the need of making several character illustrations, some of them with rather difficult to achieve perspectives.

So I figured, since I’m a 3D artist and all, that I’d give myself a little help usig Blender.

Now, while I do feel as though I’m cheating, I have to keep in mind that, ultimately, I need to acomplish a goal, and this method does make for a great time saver (Plus, I think, I makes the pose look way better than what I was getting).

And, after all, if David Revoy does it, who am I to not do it?

WiP | Re-working old Character Designs

Omar_Ramirez — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:40:22 +0000

After the birth of my daughter I’ve had little to no time to even attempt to write something here. So I apologize for the lack of updates.

What I’ve had lots of, however, is inspiration and motivation. With that in mind, I started thinking about an old comic project for web publication.

Here’s one of the character designs, the old one on the left (made about 6 or so years ago) and, to the right, the new concept I’m working with:

I’m not really trying to deviate too much from the original, but to refine and better it.

This one, specially, is one of my favorite character designs for my personal projects. What do you think?

WIP | Lots’a cubes and Vectors

Omar_Ramirez — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:20:44 +0000

So yeah, long time, huh?

.Playing With Cubes

I’ve been working a concept for a few days “Complexity from simplicity” the first two images are just experimentation with this concept, the third one, which is the only one I consider a finished piece, I put quite a lot more time and effort on.

.Hip Poster

Then there’s this. My first 2D work in quite a while, it’ll end up being a poster soon, More details on it later.

Demo Reel for 2011

Omar_Ramirez — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:47:00 +0000

Here’s my Demo reel for 2011 (or at least the first half, hopefully I’ll make a new one later this year).

Here you can see what it is that I can do. or at least part of it.

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Attribution:

Music is: Hot Core (Down Below) by snowflake

So Hip! | Kat Low-poly model

Omar_Ramirez — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:14:57 +0000

I had tons of fun working on this girl here, with her I really got to know blender inside out. looking for everything I could find in the software in order to get results.

This is the concept for her, I think I got her quite right.

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Attribution:

Music is Time to head north by urmymuse

Reflexiones – Autocensura

Omar_Ramirez — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:29:11 +0000

La Autocensura es una ma#!’/$”

Reflexiones – Inspiración y Plajio

Omar_Ramirez — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 07:11:15 +0000

Cuando eres buen artista, tu trabajo está inspirado por de otros.
Cuando eres mal artista, tu trabajo es una puta copia del de otros.

WiP | Finishing, Editing and Compositing

Omar_Ramirez — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:29:42 +0000

Pues sí, esta ultima semana o dos me la he pasado trabajando en materiales para mi Demo Reel, re-renderizando y haciendo algunos ajustes para sacar mis muestras para este año.

So – Stylized Anatomy

Aunque realmente llevo el cuerpo casi completo, decidí mostrar un busto de este personaje el cual he postergado ya por un buen rato.

Kat- Low Poly Model n’ Rig

También me dediqué a dejar presentable este rig de personaje. Ya está lista para render y animación, pero aún le faltan algunos detalles antes de que la libere como CC.