Once again, Updating the rest of the 3dĀ character projects for 2022. The second half of 2022 wasn't a prolific one. I couldn't produce a project in July and August for work reasons .Ā Also I faced some technical problemsĀ in the way with two of these projects .
Inspired by the old illustrations of old Mexican and those that I had back when I was an elementary school student school books, just wanted to get a 1970s look with fantastic elements, A boy who Flies with aĀ kite by a strong wind.
A simple one, only to practice Texture UV painting for blender (not my first use of uv texture painting, my first project with texture painting are the birds of the previous one). It is not a complex one, is inspired by the papier mache with cardboard kraft dolls from Guanajuato Mexico, and the burning Judas demons of the same material of the central part of Mexico. as well as their painting and decorative motives.
This girl is a 3d reinterpretation of a previous illustration I made years ago as a thank card for Behance painted in watercolor. It was planned to be published in September as a commemoration of Mexican independence day and patriot month. I couldn't finish on time for work reasons and changed the festive theme for one inspired by the traditional woodcraft Mexican toys, this time a trompo or Mexican Top,Ā I try to recreate a backyard similar to those of the illustrations of the Mexican school textbooks of the '90s, I put a little more effort and work in this piece making textures and materials in substance painter for her clothes and scenery like the wall and window.
One of my failed projects of 2022, and one I suffer more to work, I couldn't render it properly, or at least my Pc canĀ“t handle to render it with all its elements leaving me with no option that improvises some solution with the pre-rendered view to manage to have the work at a time. It is supposed to represent a ghost who leaves in the cemetery and comes to see her family happy.Ā Its a common practice in Mexico to visit the cementeries, adorn the tombs and pass the night there in the eve of Day of the Dead.Ā Even now can't open the archives of thiis projects to show more deatals and closer looks to the scenary like the tobs and its materials done in substance painter.Ā SoĀ Ā ill put here onlyĀ the visual materials I capture back then.
I wanted to make something inspired by Sumerian mythology and the same time thinkingĀ about the concept of a child god, I take a free approach,Ā I took the visual elements that symbols divinity in Mesopotamian religions like the horns, and make a cute cartoon character with those characteristics. No specific godĀ I represent here, but I note that shares similarities with the Sumerian god Enki, whom I nicknamed Genki. Its worth mentioning how to represent theĀ Day and night in an abstract way and in the same time reference the Sumerian gods, in one scene the day is represented by the symbols or seals of Shamash the Sumerian god of Suna and justice, and the star of innana the goddess of love, war, and justice, the night is represented simply by stars and the moon symbol of the god Sin, the moon god.
A some kind of controversial matter, IĀ am noT ChristianĀ since 2008Ā sinceĀ some years agoĀ I don't have a point in celebrating xmas (aside from the criticism of capitalism part of it ). So do not feel excluded of the celebrations of the end year, I decided to celebrate myself in some way that part of the year I recover the ancient Roman celebration of the winter solstice and the birth of the Sol Invictus in December 24th . Not in a literal one, just an allegoric one. I based this on one old Inktober of 2021 a challengeĀ Ā I can't finish even now. It is a 3d adaptation of that Inktober but with some changes I make some changes to be more accurate to representations of the III century of the god and emperor Aurelius (214-275) who impulse the cult of the sol invictus in the roman empire and ending the Imperial political and military crisis of that century.
