http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/ jramauri's gallery of images en-us 120 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/620409

Oh yes, I did! I managed to finish my participation on DW III, and here are my results. Her name is Ms. Van Nadmor, a little girl who can use a magical brush to sketch and summon magical creatures, coming from her imagination. To help her, his frog mount, able to jump giant distances, and make they both safe from danger in seconds.

85% of work done in Zbrush, and the participation of Maya, Photoshop and Painter. The two models together have 8997 tris, and diffuse, normal and specular maps, 2k each.

Although is finished, I'd love to hear good crits about how to improve the quality of my low poly models. More shots (winning pose, construction shot, concepts) are in my CGportfolio.]]> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:48:39 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/620406

Winning pose of my chars for DW III]]> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:37:47 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/620405

The low poly version of my models, with normal maps.]]> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:35:17 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/620404

The concept of Ms Van, the char of my DW entry.]]> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:32:53 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/620403

This is the concept of the frog, the pet of Ms Van on my DW entry.]]> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:30:13 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/526322

After some time without painting, I decided to make one portrait of one of my favorite chars on Street Fighter series. She's Rainbow Mika, from SFZ3. She has a dream, and fight for it!

Made using Photoshop CS2 ad Painter IX.5

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This is my homage to this old anime series. Made using tons of images of CLAMP and cosplayers as reference. Click here for the wip thread.

Comments and crits are welcome.]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:36:16 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/514272

This is a portrait of the indian actress/singer Vasundhara Das. I started using PS, but decided to use Painter Artists' oils to finish the work. Maybe I could refine more the painting, but I was after a more rough look, like a traditional oil painting.

There go some steps of this portrait.













You could see some images of Vasundhara on this link: http://www.geocities.com/ganesh91569/vas.html]]> Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:42:33 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/459794

I made this model for a challenge in a brazilian CG portal - [urlhttp://www.3dall.org[/url]. The idea was to make a redesign of an old game char. I chose my dear Tesse, from the arcade game Waku Waku 7 (1996). This was my first low poly model, and I'm pretty happy with the results. Now I intent to join on Dominance War, on CGTalk team. Let's see what I can do in this war
Model was done on Maya, and Photoshop. Girl + weapon has 7502 tris, with 2 x 1k color maps, and 2 x 1k specular maps. I could have used normal maps, but I prefer let her without them, for the nature of my model, an anime girl.
Crits and comments are still welcome, for use on next works.

My wip thread is here, for those who want to see more images, wires, etc.:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=4081004]]> Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:33:30 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/440793

This is one more attempt to make a semi-realistic manga character. As I received some good crits about the body on the last works, I made this one, trying to concentrate on how volumes should behave in a real body.
Please let me know what do you guys think.]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:24:48 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/436118

This is a representation of the Hindu god Shiva. He's my favorite god among all. He's being depicted here as Nataraja, the Lord of Dancers. In this representation, he steps on a little demon, that represents the human ignorance.
Sketch done on paper with a pencil. Scanned and painted on Photoshop. Crits and comments for improvement on next works are welcome.
The wip thread is here:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=407842]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:56:17 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/435141

This is a fanart of one of my favorites characters ever, Mizuno Ami, the Sailor Mercury of old and good Sailor Moon series. I adapted her to my drawing style and tryed to make a more belivable shading on skin, clothes and hair, without losing the manga/anime feeling.
Hope you like it.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:19:10 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/428281

I made this piece to help me with my project of modeling Morrigan and Lilith in 3D (WIP thread is here: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=411736). It was born as a simple sketch but as I liked my drawing, I decided to finish it. Comments and critics about drawing/style/colors are welcome.
I used a lot of reference of cosplayers, garage kits and arts of the game Darkstalkers while I was drawing.]]> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:45:42 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/428280

There's some time I made this image, but I don't know why I havent' uploaded to my CGportifolio yet... Well, now I did. It was made using cosplayers pictures and original artworks from the game "The king of fighters" as reference. Drawn and painted with Photoshop. Comments are still useful to improve my next works.
A detailed step by step of this picture can be found on http://www.amauriilustra.com.br/making_of.html]]> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:42:03 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/381289

This piece was a gift for a friend. I made keeping in mind her personality, and trying to make something realistic, but relatively fast to do. Photoshop was used here from start to end. And I had some photos of her to look and see if I was going in the right direction.
Although i consider this piece done, crits about anything will be useful for future works.Thanks in advance!]]> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:10:26 +0000 http://jramauri.cgsociety.org/gallery/341158

This is my first attempt of doing a realistic model. I'm a long time fan of Bjork, then I chose her face for the task. Her face is inspiring and challenging. If you look at diferent pictures of Bjork, she never looks the same! And this made more motivated yet to achieve her correct shapes.
I used Maya & ZBrush for modeling and ZBrush & Photoshop CS to make textures and maps.
The whole process is in http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=311475
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This is one of my attempts of doing anime characters using a realistic approach. I used an original image of anime as base, and then worked in the characters, trying to add things like shadows, hair textures, wrinckles on clothes, facial expressions, and many other things to give some realism for the characters.
My goal here is to know what people thinks about this kind of approach for anime chars. So any crits in this sense are welcome.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop.
WIP Thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=304618
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