.art by danfs.

Hunter's Island

2011-12-08T16:19:00.000-02:00

Hunter's Island is a game project i'm working on with Dark Territory Studios, it's a dino themed shooter with lots of action. It might be great! :)

A girl and her cat

2011-11-30T14:49:00.001-02:00

That's life!

Watercolours and some photoshop for color correction.

TCC stuff

2011-11-27T16:13:00.001-02:00

Some artwork and designs for my final college project.

Antique store final design

rejected designs

Store's objects

Machines and Magic

2011-10-24T01:02:00.000-02:00

After long time being made, containing some of my work and making me happy; Machines and Magic is out! :)
You can check it at Amazon.

Watercolours 4TW

2011-09-30T21:19:00.008-03:00

I've started to study watercolours this month with Zuri, he's such a wonderful person and professional. This is gonna be awesome!

Here's my first attempt on illustration using my brand new watercolour set.

It was kind of a life drawing session :P

Bonus:

Video process

Girl in the cafe from Danilo Ferreira on Vimeo.

Girl sketch

2011-08-31T22:38:00.001-03:00

Dusting off this place! :)

Girl in the cafe

2011-07-16T22:55:00.005-03:00

Maybe the first of a series of cute girls doing cute things.

This one was heavily inspired by Garret Hanna's work, he's such a nice guy by the way. :)

Temple duel

2011-07-12T21:03:00.007-03:00

Having some lonely days lately, yet I'm still working at full steam.

The good thing is that some freelance work are starting to pop here and there. Hoping for the best! :)

Check out this mad cool rejected designs for Shadow of the Colossus; old but gold!

Explorer

2011-06-25T03:28:00.005-03:00

I'm having some good times lately trying new approachs and getting out of my confort zone, i really hope to keep getting better at my craft. :)

And from now on, since i do have a proper portfolio already, i'll start using this space a little more as a blog actually. So you can expect more thoughts, photos, links and stuff :P

So let's get started:

Have you seen this?
Have you read this?

And don't you think these guys are cute?

Some animation stuff

2011-06-23T18:13:00.002-03:00

It's been a while that i don't post anything animation related so here it is. :)

SOTC tribute

2011-06-16T20:03:00.002-03:00

Just a trivial study piece that evolved into a Shadow of the Colossus tribute. I had a hell of a good time playing this game few years back. :)

Zbrush monster

2011-05-31T23:27:00.009-03:00

One of my projects for 3d classes. It's been kinda fun to unveil this software. Big thanks to my friend Gil for the help with Zbrush texture issues.

Original concept by: Jordu Schell

Turntable

Book cover

2011-05-19T23:33:00.005-03:00

I had to design a book cover lately, and that's the result. :)
I tried to explore some storytelling and a more deep texture work too.

Wastelands

2011-05-16T22:30:00.006-03:00

A shape oriented painting, another class assignment... just because it's too much fun! :P

Digital painting classes

2011-05-09T21:15:00.006-03:00

In the past few weeks I've attended on FuturePoly classes and i want to share some of the course assignments, it's lectures covers a lot in between digital painting, concept art, techniques and a few more cool things. It's been so much fun and so much learning and i hope to post more soon! :)

Artists Arena

2011-04-03T22:06:00.002-03:00

I'd like to proudly say that from now on will be a moderator at Artists Arena, hope to work well on this new jorney and maybe learn a lot during the process.

Feel free to start to compete at the arena. Have fun! :)

Link:

(Artwork by Xia Taptara)

Life drawing sessions

2011-03-25T16:13:00.004-03:00

Just a few drawings i did in life drawing sessions along this month. Was kinda cool to experiment on crayons.

Alguns desenhos que fiz em sessões de modelo vivo ao longo desse mês. Foi bacana experimentar trabalhar com pastéis.

Bonus :)

The cave

2011-03-11T23:20:00.004-03:00

Just trying to evolve some concept while studying composition, story telling and stuff. Hope y'a dig! :)

Gesture

2011-03-03T20:44:00.003-03:00

Just dusting off the blog. 5 minutes gesture drawing.

Animation is killing me :P

2011-02-06T13:27:00.007-02:00

It's been quite crazy to study animation, because it's definally something hard to me but i'll keep trying to push it foward. ;)
Those are some exercises i've been doing at Melies.

Tem sido uma doidera estudar animação, porque pra mim é algo difícil e que não fluí naturalmente mas vou continuar me esforçando. ;)
Estes são alguns exercícios que tenho feito na Melies.

2011 has been intense

2011-01-28T20:27:00.005-02:00

This year i'll be studying at Melies, so there's a lot of new things to learn in animation and modeling, i'm also trying to manage my time the best i can to keep studying drawing and painting regularly.

This is my first modeling study, it was based on a dagger of Prince of Persia The Two Thrones.

Happy holidays! Boas festas!

2010-12-23T13:55:00.003-02:00

I don't really get into end of year celebrations, but i wish everyone a happy X-mas and a happy new year anyway! =)
Character design inspired by someone especial.

Environment study

2010-12-19T02:03:00.005-02:00

Another environment study, i'm trying to fix my perspective and composition problems.

Outro estudo de ambiente, tentando melhorar minha perspectiva e composição.

Environment study, again =P

2010-12-15T01:26:00.004-02:00

Another speedie one, took me something like two and a half hour. I'm quite frustrated with my lack of progress in composition fundament. But gotta keep going... training and studying even more...

Outro speedie, levei cerca de 2 horas e meia. Estou um pouco insatisfeito com minha falta de progresso no fundamento composição. Mas tenho que continuar em frente... treinando e estudando ainda mais...

Environment study 002

2010-12-14T01:23:00.003-02:00

Just training a bit more of composition and value control.

Praticando um pouco de composiçao e controle tonal.