One of my new years resolution is to practice and learn more 3D. I've been playing with Cinema 4D for quite some time now but never went into much depth. I know it's going to take some time until I reach the level of the images I'm about show you here, but I'm going to do my best to make the learning process as fun as possible.
Mark Verhaagen is an illustrator from Bovensmilde, Holland with a beautfil portfolio full of character designs and other colorful illustration. You have probably seen his work before, he has designed covers for popular design magazines such as Computer Arts and Computer Arts Projects.
Crazy Enough is the brand name of Sam, a Hong Kong based artist and illustrator with a very colorful portfolio. We were surfing on the web when we found some of Sam's character designs and we simply loved them. So in this post we will show you a little bit more of his super cool character designs.
For more information visit Crazy Enough's website at http://www.crazy-enough.com/
Adrian Van Delzel is a graphic designer and illustrator from Barcelona, Spain. His work is most vector illustrations with an incredible amount of details and elements. Some characters are simply amazing, especially the Monster ones.
Most things are based on vectors in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop is a faithful friend, but not the center of it all.
I always try to find some sort of equilibrium, which counteract my "artistic imbalance" that is present on everything I do...
Stamatis Lasko is a visual artist from Volos Greece. We can seen in his portfolio some incredible paintings and street art graffitis. The portraits are very detailed and with a interesting movement and expressions. I really like his skills on character design, and I highly recommend that you check out his portfolio at http://www.behance.net/siveone
I have been researching for a personal project I am working on in characted design. While I was surfing on Behance I stumbled on the Johnathan Ball's profile, a digital artists from Newport, UK. I was really impressed by the quality of Jonathan's work. The 3D characters are very funny and well done. Also he has done work for big clients such as MTV, BBC, Sony, BBC and others.
I was surfing on Behance when I found one incredible image of a monster. It was quite creepy but really well done, so I decided to check out the author's portfolio. Aja Jones is a digital artists from France with a incredible set of monsters and macabre creatures design. All of them are creative photo manipulations, mixed with paintings and illustration. I would love to see his design process on them.
For more information visit Aja Jones Behance page at http://www.behance.net/aJonesa or his DeviantArt at http://ajonesa.deviantart.com/gallery/
I've been working on some Flash projects that got some character designs. It's incredible how creative some designers and digital artists can get when they design these little creatures. Because of that, I decided to extend my research and share with you 21 masters of this craft and their amazing creations. If you know or has designed a character, share it with, us leaving a comment.
Over here at Abduzeedo, we love to feature the work of designers and digital artists from all over the world. We really want to help designers and the design community promote their work, share ideas and creativity with everyone. That's the case with Mathias Townsend; an illustrator and designer from Porto Alegre. Yep, he's from my town in Brazil. He has some very cool illustrations and character designs. Its definitely worth checking them out.
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