Professional Info
My artwork is inspired by my scientific knowledge and by several artists, including Alex Drummond, Peter McClory, Gleb Alexanderov (Creative Shrimp), Reynante Martinez, James Paick, Julius Horsthuis, Alphonso Dunn and many others.
I like to do art for both concept art as well as scientific illustration. My favourite themes are fantasy, sci-fi and nature. I am trying to develop skills for both character and environment/level concepts, and through the journey, discover which one I do better. I have skills in both traditional and digital art and I usually like to mix them to achieve results quicker.
I fell in love with 3D CG while performing my PhD research - I had to use it to come with new ways to study insects anatomy. I use Blender for every step of the 3D workflow: low poly modeling, sculpting, texturing, animation, simulations and movie editing. I learnt a lot from online tutorials and blogs, applied everything to my research and now I am branching into new adventures in the 3D world (character and dungeon designs).
I am also interested in some great tools of 3D CG: physically based simulations and their applications to study or animate animal biomechanics and physiology; 3D morphing as a means to represent animal development and evolution
Languages
Portuguese (Native)
English
Skills
Digital Painting
3D Modeling (Low Poly)
Digital Sculpting
Fractal Art
Watercolour
Pen and Ink
Oil Painting
Education
B.A. in Fine Arts (discontinued)
2006-2008
Escola Guignard - Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2010 - present
2010 - present
PhD student
National University of Singapore
​2011 - present
I am currently doing a PhD in Biological Sciences. I am applying 3D computer graphics to model and animate the anatomy of insects - specifically "Black Scavenger Flies" (family Sepsidae). The objectives of my research are to introduce new tools to create virtual anatomical parts of insects to study them in the virtual world. I am also performing computer graphics physically-based simulations (fluid simulations) to perform virtual experiments on the physiology of the flies.
Professional Experience
Research Assistant
Department of Biological Sciences
National University of Singapore
​2008 - 2011
I was involved in a research project to study the physics of colouration in insects and spiders. The research involved understanding the nano-scale shape of special hairs that some animals have and how that structure interacts with light to create shinning and metallic colours in nature. Examples included the scales on butterflies wings.