José C. Montero Dávila

Here’s my Portfolio class project: IU-70 Mecha, a Hard Surface study. This was a very challenging project for me throughout the whole pipeline. I had to revisit some important concepts and learn some new ones as well. Overall, I really loved the experience, and I did learn a lot—from optimizing my models to understanding the importance of texel density (I’m still working on this) and definitely choosing the correct and optimal pipeline for my models.

Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce that I won 1st place in the 3D Weapons Design Challenge at Atlantic University. I had one week to create a long-range weapon and a melee weapon. I came up with the idea of creating a portable particle accelerator that shoots micro-black holes (don't mind me breaking every law of physics for this one) called "The Singularity." For the melee weapon, I created a particle deconstructor sledgehammer called the Sledge-Heimer. Overall, I loved this experience for everything that I learned and the feedback I received. The sleepless nights paid off, and I'm happy to show the results.

Here’s my latest project, my Corsair Hunter Table! I am very grateful for all the challenges I faced for this one and all the things I learned. I worked on improving my high-poly to low-poly workflow, retopology, and texturing skills and achieved a great result that I’m very proud of! I also got to work with some new things like niagara particles and got deeper into UE camera and post-processing settings and some modeling tools. Overall I’m happy with how the project came out, and I’m also very excited for my next projects and the new things I will learn. Thank you all for reading through, and I hope you like this project.

Quick sculpts I made to test out the rendering capabilities of Nomad Sculpt.

Here are the props I made for my team at Global Game Jam 2023. Amazing experience and a lot of learning, forever grateful for this opportunity.

[Composition Practice] Not really my style but I've been attempting something different for the sake of practice. Did this trying to portray an old abandoned hideout dungeon and ended up putting a lot of effort into it. Note: Props used for this environment where downloaded from UE Marketplace.