Inspiration

I take inspiration for my art from everywhere. People, nature, emotions, feelings. I don’t have a distinct style for my 3D art yet, it’s mostly very general since I’m still trying to learn to master it. So to get to the point where I can proudly say I’ve got a style of my own, I’ll keep getting inspired by professionals and try to see what kind of choices they have made during the modelling process. The 3D artists who inspire me the most are Kevin Muljadi, Baran Sarper, Yuuki Morita and WLOP, who has just recently started converting their beautiful 2D work into 3D form.

All of these artists have a very personal style to model and make art, and each of them has different sides to them that I really like.

Yuuki Morita is a Japanese 3D artist, who combines nature and myth in her work. She creates beautiful 3D visualisations with minimal moving elements, which is something I really like to try myself too. She also uses a 3D printer to print out some of her work to be displayed as a real sculpture and this is one of the main reasons my program of study is related to this.

Kevin Muljadi is a character modeller whose work resembles a lot of Disney. His style is very cartoony, but with a hint of realism in the way his models are very anatomically correct. He also has a way to pose the characters very dynamically, which I’d like to master myself as well. The texturing and rendering of his final outcomes are extremely smooth and pleasing to the eye.

WLOP is a Chinese artist I have been following on social media for a very long time. He has a very unique style to his art and the way a single image is able to tell a story has always fascinated me. WLOP is able to add so much detail with very loose and abstract brush strokes, so every piece they make feels light and airy. WLOP has just recently dipped into 3D modelling as well, first by creating the base sets of his paintings in 3D and later on creating the entire scene in Blender. Even after switching to an entirely different medium, he’s able to keep to his style of art.

Baran Sarper is a 3D artist who I stumbled across a few years ago on Instagram. I instantly was impressed by the sheer amount of detail his pieces include and how rich the story of each of them seems to be. Baran’s work was the one that introduced me to NFTs and made me start looking into more environmentally friendly ways to present 3D work. Even though I can’t completely stand by the decision to sell one’s work as NFT, I’m still very impressed by his work and can’t help but admire his skills and talent. Baran’s talent at world-building is something I’d love to be able to do myself too.

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