Hi guys!

Here's some WIPs of character I'm working on.

Her name is Lily, she lives in a future where all life on our planet has gone extinct due to pollution, deforestation and climate changes. Survivors are fleeing to another planet carrying with them some spheres contaning plants' seeds and bacteria necessary to bring life to the new planet.

But Lily decides to stay back. She steals one of the "life spheres" and plans on planting it again on Earth to give our home another chance!

Me thinking about the future when it's not even halfway done... :D

The "final" high-poly model:

Probably the final pose but with still thing to fix...

  And some expression fun! (with still things to fix)

Hi mates!

Here's another video of Oliver, this time showing the lights....

Hi people!

I did this video for a contest showing the sculpting and polypainting progress of little Oliver, and since it's fun seeing him asslembing I'm posting it also here... Hope you like it!

Hi folks!

I'm finally back at working on the sculpt of my grandma... trying to refine the shapes better and adding wrinkles and stuff like that, but it's harder than I expected... but being my first time making a realistic detailed face I guess I can't really complain!

And one with a different material:

Bye,

Alice.
  

Hi everybody!

I'm finally back with an HDRi on the Artstation MarketPlace. I wanted to post it before but a thing or another I didn't... so happy I finally did!

Here it is.

This one I took it at the end of August in a group of very ruined rural buildings. The room I chose  was my favourite as both the upper floor and the roof had collapsed and even two trees had been able to grow as well as a lot of ivy, also I liked the machinery on the wall. It surely was a stable, probably for cattle.

Anyway it was dusk and the walls covered almost all the last rays of light, I didn't thought the result was going to be so awesome. I did some test renders in Marmoset using my Oliver model trying some different brightness for the HDRi and I really loved it!

Here's the link to the interactive pano.

Hope you'll like it and it'll help you in your fantastic projects!

May the creativity be with you.

Bye,

Alice.

Hi all!

Just wanted to try to capture some likeness, so here's my grandma. It's just a quick sculpt, far from finished, but still I''m happy with it for it really is her! I honestly thought it would be more difficult to make it look alike but I guess the hard part still has to come...

Any tips welcome! :)

  

Hi all!

Today's a big day! It's been a while that I've been thinking to upload some of my 360°x180° HDR Panoramas on the ArtStation Marketplace and today I finally did! So the first one is available here and more are coming (very soon, I hope!)

Lately I'm becoming quite obsessed with abandoned places, they just have something special... some strange force frozen in time. And of course they're also the best locations ever and the light is always great so I just couldn't take some spherical HDRIs for lighting my models! But they were just too nice and well done not to share them!  So here's one that I took in an ex sugar factory in Italy, it's probably one of my favorite places I've explored so far. I really loved the high windows, typical of industrial buildings, the broken ceiling, and the vegetation growing outside and on the floor that gave a nice greenish light opposed to the red of the bricks and rusty metal.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a way of uploading it interactively here on the blog so you can see it here instead. ;)

Since it's the first one (and you read my blog post) here's a 30% off launch bonus (sorry but not valid for lunch!) discount code valid till the 18th september: LAUNCHNOTLUNCH30

Hope you like it and helps you out on your projects!

May the creativity be with you.

Bye,

Alice Di Francesco Maesa

PS: if you need a custom HDRI please contact me at alicedfm.99@gmail.com I'll be very happy to do it for you if possible.

Hi there! First time writing a blog post on artstation! :)

Just tought it would be cool to share my very first two materials made in Substance Alchemist. The second one (bricks and stones wall) is made using the AI-powered image to materials as a base to which I then added some moss and dust.

They're rendered in Marmoset Toolbag using an HDR image I took some days ago near my house.

Any feedback welcome!