PAULO ÍTALO'S ART BLOG

Engineer_ Level 20_ XP-5

2012-02-05T08:00:00.000-02:00

Hi, I'm huge fan of Jake Parker. My personal project, XP-5, has a great influence of his work.
This is a concept art for the Level 20 Engineer Class. The Engineer is one classes of worker from he XP-5 universe.

This was made using a Pentel GFKP brush pen and other stuff.
Thank you for the inspiration, Mr. Jake Parker.

Soon I'll be bringing more and more XP-5 news.
See ya!

Some Faery Characters

2012-02-01T23:51:00.001-02:00

I'm back!

These are some faery characters:

I think they need more thinking about the materials they use to make their clothes and objects. I'll put more detailing on the my next faery characters.

Some Character Designs from 2008

2011-12-22T23:54:00.000-02:00

Hi,
I found these Sci-Fi characters I made in 2008. Hope you like it.

Dragonette sketches

2011-12-15T23:32:00.000-02:00

This week I bring some dragonette sketches made for another game idea.
The story of this game is placed in a medieval fantasy world called Pécida and I'll make some other posts about this fictional world in the future.

Zombuffet

2011-12-05T01:46:00.000-02:00

Hi,
Today I bring some cartoon zombies. It's for a game project about being a zombie leader and eating people.
It was really funny to think about this game, I hope to get back to this project in the future.

The French waiter zombie makes the zombie hordes eat the victims like gentlemen.

Zombiesques studies. Some stunned victims.

Fantasy Pirate

2011-12-01T07:38:00.001-02:00

Long time without updates... But I was challenged by my friend Arthur, @suco_suco, and I'll bring weekly updates from now on.

The first of this new and brightful age of updates is this character I designed some time ago for one of the many mobile game projects I'm trying to develop with some friends.
This character is a kind of fantasy pirate who scaped from a prison and now is a runaway.
Here are some sketches:

Early studies for the same character:

More updates soon...

Pixel Art Backgrounds.

2011-06-18T22:37:00.000-03:00

Some time ago Virtue Studio produced a TV commercial in 8-bit style and I was responsible for the backgrounds. It was based on the old beat'em ups, something like the Scott Pilgrim's game.
Take a look:

And this is the TV commercial itself:

You can read more about this production and the other artists that worked on it in Virtue Studio's Blog.

Character Designs.

2011-03-27T00:54:00.002-03:00

Hi,
I'm back with some character designs for an unannouced @Sulistas's game project.
I'll tell something about this game in the future.
The main intention was to create warriors equiped with special itens.
Hope you like it.

Link for a bigger version of this image on Deviantart

eXPerience-5_ Wallpapers / Fundos de Tela

2011-01-14T10:05:00.003-02:00

In the first post of 2011, I bring a little gift.

Here we have a XP-5 wallpaper in three different sizes. Hope you like it.

No primeiro post de 2011, trago um presentinho.

Temos aqui um fundo de tela do XP-5 em três tamanhos diferentes. Espero que gostem.

1440x900

800x600 1024x768

eXPerience-5_ Color Studies / Estudos de Cor

2010-12-18T20:42:00.000-02:00

Hi! These are some character studies from XP-5.
The five main characters are portraied in this image.
At top-left we have two sketches of what could be the shape of the eXPerience-5.1 scholar spaceship.
The logo in the center is just a placeholder.

Oi! Estes são alguns estudos de personagens do XP-5.
Os cinco personagens principais estão retratados nessa imagem.
No topo, à esquerda, temos dois esboços do que por vir a ser a nave espacial escolar eXPerience-5.1.
A logo ao centro é provisória.

eXPerience-5

2010-12-15T23:42:00.001-02:00

This is the first illustration I show relative to my new personal project, eXPerience-5, or just XP-5.
The target audience is 7 to 12 years old children and any one who wants to know some new sci-fi stuff.
This project will be about space adventures, technical details of futuristic machinery, sustainability, puzzles, team work, aliens and asteroids!
My inspirations to this project are: Star Wars, Jake Parker, Professor Layton series, Cybercops, Changeman, Jaspion, Jiban, Ironman, Megaman and videogame culture.
Soon I'll bring some news.

Essa é a primeira ilustração que mostro do meu novo projeto pessoal, eXPerience-5, ou apenas XP-5.
O público alvo são crianças de 7 a 12 anos de idade e qualquer um que queira conhecer um novo material de ficção científica.
Esse projeto tratará de aventuras espaciais, detalhes técnicos sobre maquinário futurista, sustentabilidade, charadas, trabalho em equipe, alienígenas e asteróides!
Minhas inspirações para esse projeto são: Star Wars, Jake Parker, Professor Layton series, Cybercops, Changeman, Jaspion, Jiban, Ironman, Megaman e a cultura dos videogames.
Novidades em breve.

Michael Jackson The Experience for Nintendo DS Official Trailer.

2010-11-13T22:51:00.000-02:00

Finnaly the official trailer for Nintendo DS version is revealed:

As I said before I modeled, rigged and animated the dancing Michael, and I worked together with Will Murai on texturing the character.

Interview.

2010-10-15T15:23:00.000-03:00

I was interviewed by a newspaper from Fortaleza-CE, Brazil, about my carrer as Game Artist.

In Portuguese:

http://diariodonordeste.globo.com/materia.asp?codigo=860643

Michael Jackson The Experience for Nintendo DS.

2010-09-20T00:52:00.000-03:00

I'm so proud to announce that the most recent project I contributed: Michael Jackson The Experience for Nintendo DS.

This is the link to Destructoid site, where you can see a video of somebody playing on Billie Jean stage direct form Tokyo Game Show:
http://www.destructoid.com/tgs-michael-jackson-ds-is-the-new-elite-beat-agents-184232.phtml

I modeled, rigged and animated the dancing Michael, and I worked together with Will Murai on texturing the character.
I'm a MJ's fan since Bad, so working on a game that brings his name is a great thing for me.
The launches in november. Hope you all like it!

Elephant And Macal Banner on Rede TV.

2010-09-13T17:37:00.000-03:00

Elephant And Macal Banner on brazilian news show Leitura Dinâmica, Rede TV.
The images show lots of my artworks, and from other artists too, made for Christopher Kastensmidt's short-stories series.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE

Comicon Challenge 2010

2010-08-30T14:46:00.000-03:00

Nice news! :)
Comicon Challenge 2010 has finaly begun and my Batman Black & White, 9th place from the first edition of the challenge, is in the oficial banner. XD

Thi time the challenge has a sugestion of theme, but it isn't mandatory. It's about representing a comic character with a diferent age of that it normaly is. Interesting!

Hope I can finish my entry in time this year.

See you there!

African Dragon_ Colored.

2010-05-19T00:13:00.001-03:00

Colored version of African Dragon. Photoshop.

Thanks to Will Murai (twitter: @willmurai) for the painting hints! :)

African Dragon_ Pencil.

2010-05-17T11:44:00.001-03:00

Finnaly a new post after a long time. :)

African Dragon from the short stories series called The Elephant and Macaw Banner (twitter: @elephantmacaw) by Christopher Kastensmidt.

I've made this illustration in about 3 hours.

Maxwella, the Shescribblenaut.

2009-09-21T00:12:00.000-03:00

Scribblenauts is a fantastic game, really impressive and captivating.

It inspired me to make this sketch. Hope you like it. :)

Ghost Rider 2099_ Comicon Challenge 2009_ W.I.P.

2009-09-11T23:30:00.000-03:00

Hi,

Some W.I.P. images from my Comicon Challenge 2009 entry.

The challenge is over, but I'm still working on it because I wasn't satisfied with the submitted final result.

I improved the shader and soon I'll improve the rigging in order to make a short animation video.

3dsMax viewport screen shots using Xoliul shader:

Rendered using Mentalray on 3dsMax:

Even Dragons Dance _ Color.

2009-07-10T19:35:00.000-03:00

Hi. This one was made to illustrate a friend's short story. Even Dragons Dance.

RPG Illustrations_ Contra Arsenal.

2009-06-21T21:37:00.000-03:00

Illustrations for a RPG book: "Contra Arsenal".

Imagine: Detective.

2009-06-02T11:38:00.000-03:00

First News about Imagine: Detective, for Nintendo DS, first game from Ubisoft São Paulo and my first console title.

http://ds.ign.com/objects/143/14354662.html#aboutThisGame http://media.ds.ign.com/media/143/14354662/imgs_1.html

I worked as 3d artist and designed many indoors environments and helped on some other things.

Kitty Girl _ Character Design.

2009-05-20T22:48:00.000-03:00

Just practicing character design.
I begun on the idea of creating a Catwoman redesign to be mate for my Batman Black & White and I added a Le Parkour look and moviment style. But I'll keep working to try to change it into an original character.

Dominance War IV

2009-05-19T03:00:00.000-03:00

After months away... I'm back.
These are my final submitions for Dominance War IV, the Olimpic Games of Character Design.
Hope you like it.

Taikodom_Costume Designs_Part.1

2008-10-09T17:04:00.000-03:00

Hi,
There is some costume designs I made for Taikodom:

Male Bomber and Female Bomber. Two diferent meshes using the same texture maps, diffuse color, normals map and specular level.

Screenshot from 3DS Max Viewport.

Bomber Pilot

Fighter Pilot

Freighter Pilot

Comicon Challenge Result.

2008-10-07T16:47:00.000-03:00

Hi.

This post is a little late, but now I'm showing the result of GameArtisans' Comicon Challenge.
I got 9th place with my Batman Black & White.

One of the judges said:
"1st place - PauloItalo Batman Black & WhiteThis is an absolutely stunning and evocative interpretation of Batman Black and White! The stylized proportions, the chiseled mature features in the face, and the dynamic blend of the classic Batman outfit with ultramodern gadgetry push the design of this classic character to new heights. Congrats Paulo on a job well done!"

Ben [kongni] Ridgway.

3D graphics, game art, and concept development teacher.

Detroit College forCreative Studies.

And I got a highlight from 3d4all.org:

See ya.

LowPoly Studies_003.

2008-09-18T00:45:00.000-03:00

Finnaly some animation on this blog:

I hope I can bring more and more animations.

See ya.

Low Poly Studies_002.

2008-09-16T01:01:00.000-03:00

This time a non-humanoid character:

Low Poly Studies_001.

2008-09-15T00:15:00.000-03:00

Some Low Poly studies:

Batman Black & White_ Finished.

2008-08-15T08:23:00.000-03:00

Finally I finished my entry for Comicon Challenge:

Link to the thread:

http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=4668

Batman Black & White_ Pose and Lighting Test (cont.)

2008-08-12T15:37:00.000-03:00

Some updates. Soon I'll post the final images.

Comicon Challenge_ Batman Black & White_ W.I.P. (cont.)

2008-08-05T13:41:00.000-03:00

This are some sketches I made as concept for my Batman:

And this is the silhouette of the lowpoly mesh:

Comicon Challenge_ Batman Black & White_ W.I.P.

2008-08-05T13:28:00.000-03:00

Hi,
This is my entry in progress for Game Artisan's Comicon Challenge.
I chose to create a Batman as if he came from Black & White series.

Coridrian Colossus.

2008-07-22T13:37:00.001-03:00

Illustration for a RPG book. It's about the construction of a Iron Colossus.

Old Illustration.

2008-07-22T10:12:00.000-03:00

This one is very old. I used photoshop to paint it, pencil by Fábio "Birous."

Taikodom_Paleo-artfacts.

2008-06-29T22:41:00.000-03:00

Hi, these are ruins of ancient alien tecnology of Taikodom Universe.

I made concept, modeling, mapping, texture and animated texture for the organic parts.

Taikodom_Hypergate Concept.

2008-06-29T22:34:00.000-03:00

Taikodom_Hypergate.

2008-06-15T00:25:00.000-03:00

Hi again,

Now I bring the Hypergate a huge construction on Taikodom universe that makes the spaceship run great distances between the system almost instantly, but they have to pay.
For this asset I made concept, with an aid of Manuhell, modeling, mapping and texture. The glowing parts have animated texture.

See you.

Taikodom_Hurricane.

2008-06-15T00:13:00.000-03:00

Hi,
This is another spaceship from Taikodom, a bomber called Hurricane. It isn't so fast as Gale, but it is much bigger and is optimized to use missels, rockets, torpedos and mines. It has a turret on the downside. I'll show the turret on other post.
For this model I made the conept, modeling, mapping and the animated part of the texture.
See ya.

Taikodom_Gale_WireFrame.

2008-06-04T14:53:00.000-03:00

Hi,

This an update showing Gale's wireframe and polycount.

The softwares used was 3DSMax and Photoshop.

Taikodom_Gale.

2008-06-03T17:10:00.000-03:00

Hi there,

Another piece of my work on Taikodom. This is my favorite asset. A fighter called Gale, made by people from earth who have just awakened in the futuristic universe of Taikodom.

I made concept, modeling, mapping and texture.

This is my girl! Hope you like it.

Taikodom_Oni.

2008-05-25T16:27:00.000-03:00

Hi, finnally I'm post a bit of my work on Hoplon's Taikodom, http://www.taikodom.com/.

This Oni, a character that represents a kind of Articial Conscience. I made concept, texture, rigging and animation.

Hope you like it.

Tebra_W.I.P.

2008-04-23T09:17:00.000-03:00

Hi,

I'm late for another contest :/
I didn't get in time to finish my entry for Dominance War III, but I'll keep working on Tebra in my spare time. Hope you like what I have for now.

See ya.

Cammy - W.I.P.

2008-04-01T14:07:00.000-03:00

Hi, I started this piece for the Street Fighter book, but I haven't met the deadline. Slowly I'll finish it.

For who didn't recognized the character, she a Cammy in the middle of a secret mission using a more military uniform. She has just killed the target and now is running from the scene.

Thanks for the comments, buddies.

Dominance War III - Tebra.

2008-03-09T14:52:00.000-03:00

I'm on a inter-forums contest called Dominance War III.

This is my 3d thread:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=234&t=597849&page=1&pp=15

This is my 3d character:

Name: Tebra.

Class: Warlord.

Race: Cursed Human.

Artifact: Wind Star - air/lightning.

Tebra was a leader who drove his brave people to a terrible battle against Zarack, a powerful invoker. Only Tebra survived. Zarack cursed him for his inconsequet act. Tebra was turned into a monster to never lead any army again. So Tebra decided to be his own army and fight to honor his people and die fighting to meet them again, he climbed the highest mountain and shouted for the the gods... and someone heard. Waspen, a celestial fey, was sent to give him an artifact, the Wind Star. Now Tebra has the power to fight!

I'll show more in the next post.

Alien Races Concepts.

2008-02-11T21:48:00.000-02:00

These are some sketches of alien races for a friend's Science Fiction RPG book.

Elf lady.

2008-02-10T14:30:00.000-02:00

These are studies for a friend's tatoo. He had something in mind and I tryied to find this something... well, he sad number 7 was perfect... I prefer 4, 5 and 6.

See ya.

Ninj-O

2008-02-10T14:22:00.000-02:00

I'm back! After some months away I'm posting again.

This character is Ninj-O, a mix between Naruto and Robin. He will help me to teach character modeling, texturing. skining, rigging, animation, etc. The classes begins next month, so I better run with this project.

See ya.

Crocodile - Final.

2007-09-04T10:45:00.000-03:00

This is my final entry for the stylized animal challenge of august.

These are some pieces of 3DCreative Magazine with my article and profile:

Tutorial pages: (Right click & 'Save as') : www.3dcreativemag.com/artists/issue025_sep07/challenge.pdf

This months Cover & Contributors Pages:
www.3dcreativemag.com/artists/issue025_sep07/cover.pdf

Crocodile (W.I.P.)

2007-08-17T14:09:00.000-03:00

This is my work in progress entry for the Stylized Animal Challenge of August.

This is my first work on Painter. Painter Classic version.

I will model it in 3d also.

Sniper and gunslingers.

2007-08-12T22:16:00.000-03:00

Hi,

These are sketches about snipers and gunslingers.

They use guns but they are from a medieval fantasy scenery. I thing it's very interesting when medieval tecnology try to emulate modern equipment. I love Steampunk.

See ya.

Stylized Monkey Challenge - 3dCreative Magazine result.

2007-07-30T09:38:00.000-03:00

Hi,
This is the link to the piece of 3dCreative Magazine showing the result of the Stylized Monkey Challenge.
http://www.3dcreativemag.com/artists/issue024_aug07/challenge.pdf
And this is the link to the piece of 2dArtist Magazine showing the result of the Stylized Monkey Challenge.
http://www.2dartistmag.com/artists/issue020_aug07/challenge.pdf
Well, I don't know how to count the times this link is clicked, so if you are about to click it please write a post just to register, thanks!

See ya!

Old man and donkey.

2007-07-16T17:04:00.000-03:00

These are concepts for a friend's short film.

Stylized Monkey Challenge.

2007-07-16T14:46:00.000-03:00

I'm proud to announce that I am the 2nd place in both 3d and 2d category of the Stylized Monkey Challenge.

Now I'll produce the Making Ofs to the two images to be published in August on 3dCreative and 2dArtist Magazines.

Well... See ya!

Monkey.

2007-06-20T23:08:00.000-03:00

Hi,

This is my stylized monkey for a 3D challenge. It's running on http://www.threedy.com/ and the winners will be shown on 3D Creative magazine.

Well, I hope you like it.

Leprechaun model.

2007-06-11T13:07:00.000-03:00

This is the first 3d render of Leprechaun, the star of Soon Project. It's yet a W.I.P., I'll work and experiment more on the texture and I'll use a filter to bring a interesting visual effect to the short.

See ya.

"Área de Tormenta"

2007-05-25T16:54:00.000-03:00

These are illustrations I made for a Brazilian RPG book, "Área de Tormenta".

See ya.

Kraken studies

2007-05-14T12:08:00.000-03:00

In this "PCless" weekend I "daydreamed" about my secondary project, The Kraken, and I made same sketches and color studies.
I also thought some more about the screenplay and now it has a new character the baby Krakorilla and there is a moment when the gorilla opens his eyes.

RPG illustration

2007-05-11T10:14:00.000-03:00

This is an illustration I made for Dragão Brasil, a brazilian RPG Magazine.
I used Adobe Photoshop for painting and 3DSMax to generate the door.

"Something is going to happen soon..."

2007-05-10T15:40:00.000-03:00

While I work on Leprechaun's 3d model I decided the soundtrack of the short. It's "Soon" by Squirrel Nut Zippers, my favorite band... Have I ever talk about that?

Well, I'll use just a small part of the music:

"I was walking down the street
A stranger said to me
Be careful what you do
Then when waiting for a train
I heard a strange refrain
Id watch out if I were you, boy
Is something going to happen soon
Somethings going to happen soon"

The screenplay will be based on the lyric.

Earth Elemental

2007-05-08T10:01:00.000-03:00

I was working on this model at Mudbox before start Leprechaun, but I think I started without enough references and I stopped to return later.
One day I'll finish it.
See ya.

The Kraken

2007-05-07T15:34:00.000-03:00

Well, I was trying to write the screenplay for the Leprechaun when this images came to my mind.

That would be the Leprechaun's house, and this two "pets" would be a non-sense touch, but I thought again and decided to keep the thing simple. This scene will be another project.

The soundtrack for this project is already decided: "The Kraken", by Squirrel Nut Zippers, my favorite band.

"Tonight I will dream

Far below the fading light

My dream is for you

My arms were made to hold you tight

Now the time has come

The time has come"

Hmmm... maybe too dramatic for the cartoon stile, but you have to listen the full music. Hehehe!

See ya!

Leprechaun

2007-05-02T12:49:00.000-03:00

Hi, this is concept of my next animation, Leprechaun.

I don't have a story to tell, but I think that the character is strong enough to bring one to my mind easily.

Well... the next step is modeling, see ya!

Hi!

2007-04-18T14:21:00.000-03:00

My name is Paulo Ítalo, a.k.a. Arrhenius, I am a CG Artist. My focus are on concept art and animation.

I made this blog to show some of my artworks. This is an old one, but soon I'll bring new images.

Hope you like it.

See ya!

Paulo "Arrhenius" Ítalo.