Sign In
Sign in
English

TopBanners19031101.jpg      

March 11, 2019, 09:00 AM

by Editor in Chief

It's interesting to hear about what background some of the best Blender artists are coming from, as was the case for this week's winner.

How, then, can you too qualify for this award? Please have in mind that this award is reserved for those that are on par with or that excel top-notch works published by artists and studios. If such work does not appear during a given week, this award is not being given to anyone. So please submit your best work to www.blenderartist.org or to the Member's Gallery of this site, or Contact Us to show where your work is available on the internet. It doesn't have to be a Blender render, internal or Cycles. Any other render engine is fine as long as Blender was used as a part of your workflow.

So, it is with great pleasure that www.BlenderNews.org introduces to you the winner of the Render of the Week Award for the week of March 11, 2019: Juan Hernández
.

Title: "
Uruk Hai Soldier
"
Character Design
Renderer: Cycles

Final Render
ROTWA190311.jpg

Making-of
ROTWA190311MO1.jpg ROTWA190311MO2.jpg

Artist's Comments
About Me: 
My name is Juan Hernández, I was born in Venezuela but I am currently living in the Czech Republic. I worked with motion graphics in After Effects for 2 years
and in 2018 switched to Blender, where I got interested in the 3D world. I am now working as a CG generalist in Prague.

About "Uruk Hai Soldier:"
This is one of the personal projects I make to push myself forward in Blender. Even though it was inspired by LOTR characters, I didn´t stick 100% to the original designs, the biggest difference would be the reptile-like skin, which I just personally liked and took as an artistic choice. I like giving my illustrations some ¨story¨ in the details, in this case, I wanted to show this character has seen a lot of fights. I sculpted the model in Blender and made some hand painted textures for the color variation of the skin, also for the side-burn in the right side (from his view) of the jaw.

In one of the images you can see the various renders I did even when I knew it was not finished, it is usually something I do so I can focus on details and
point out what things I can improve.

Related LInks:

1. https://blenderartists.org/t/uruk-hai-soldier/1146297

2. https://www.artstation.com/donchuan3d

List of Articles
Subject Datesort Views
Blender Retrospectives 2020 Blender Retrospective Feb 20, 2021 312757
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 Worthy of Your Note - for Animation & VFX file Jan 25, 2020 665054
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 Worthy of Your Note - for CG, Games & Viz file Jan 25, 2020 528350
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 file Jan 25, 2020 535359
Tutorials Top 15 Highest-Rated Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 file Jan 25, 2020 478538
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 for Blender 2.8 file Jan 23, 2019 450352
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 Worthy of Your Note - for CG, Games & Viz file Jan 23, 2019 793519
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 Worthy of Your Note - for Animation & VFX file Jan 23, 2019 513258
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 file Jan 23, 2019 447540
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2018: Winners Annouced file Jan 02, 2019 485155
Blender Retrospectives 2018 Blender Retrospective file Jan 02, 2019 477788
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2017 file Jan 09, 2018 1074337
Blender Retrospectives 2017 Blender Retrospective file Jan 01, 2018 799554
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2017: Winners Annouced file Dec 26, 2017 652763
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials (Videos) Released in 2016 file Jan 16, 2017 869254
Blender Retrospectives 2016 Blender Retrospective file Dec 29, 2016 1163313
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2015: Seven Winners Annouced file Jan 20, 2016 890914
Blender Retrospectives 2015 Blender Retrospective file Jan 12, 2016 862883
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2015 file Jun 26, 2015 906523
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2014: Five Winners Annouced file Jan 02, 2015 919925
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2014 file Dec 11, 2014 964016
Render of the Week 'Fantasy Ambient' by Cristian Enache - Winner for the Week of October 8, 2012 file Oct 09, 2012 49047
Render of the Week 'Fire Flower' by Alexey Lugovoy - Winner for the Week of October 1, 2012 file Oct 01, 2012 56423
Render of the Week 'Island' by Agustin Benavidez - Winner for the Week of September 24, 2012 file Sep 25, 2012 57937
Render of the Week 'Forest Path' by Igor Kozyrev - Winner for the Week of September 17, 2012 file Sep 17, 2012 49983
Render of the Week 'Snail' by Maciej Stokowiec - Winner for the Week of September 10, 2012 file Sep 10, 2012 46805
Render of the Week 'Who's Shoe' by Max Radons - Winner for the Week of September 3, 2012 file Sep 03, 2012 47258
Render of the Week 'Lost in Stereo' by Reynante Martinez - Winner for the Week of August 27, 2012 file Aug 28, 2012 46421
Render of the Week 'Sexy Character: Redux' by Joseph Cooke - Winner for the Week of August 20, 2012 file Aug 21, 2012 69310
Render of the Week 'Rainy' by Matej Hudak - Winner for the Week of August 13, 2012 file Aug 13, 2012 50768
Render of the Week 'HMS Ajax' by Radoslaw Marcin Kurczewski - Winner for the Week of August 6, 2012 file Aug 06, 2012 57217
Render of the Week 'Simple Interior' by Eduardo Câmara - Winner for the Week of July 30, 2012 Jul 30, 2012 64585
Render of the Week 'Green Woods' by Jason Reynolds - Winner for the Week of July 23, 2012 file Jul 23, 2012 52582
Render of the Week 'Mischief in the Subway' by Richard Hoatland - Winner of the Week of July 16, 2012 file Jul 16, 2012 63629
Render of the Week 'Come Hell or High Water' by Julian Fischer - Winner of the Week of July 9, 2012 file Jul 09, 2012 59778
Render of the Week 'The Doppelganger' by Eric Basiletti - Winner of the Week of July 2, 2012 file Jul 02, 2012 54398
Render of the Week Why Some of the Renders Fell Short of Being a Winner ... file Jun 25, 2012 50154
Render of the Week 'Gargoyle' by Michalis Zissiou - Winner of the Week of June 18, 2012 file Jun 18, 2012 93290
Render of the Week 'Urban Apartment' by Enrico Cerica - Winner of the Week of June 11, 2012 file Jun 11, 2012 63079
Render of the Week 'Pripyat, 1987' by Anuraag - the Winner of the Week of June 4, 2002 file Jun 04, 2012 62042
Render of the Week 'Minotaurus' by Tamas Torok - the Winner of the Week of May 28, 2002 file May 28, 2012 64863