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My name is Diana Ontiveros. I'm from Mexico. Recently I graduated from Animation and VFX engineering and I'm starting my career as a freelancer. My art is focused on characters and creatures for concept and production like video games or animations. I've been doing 3D for two and a half years.

The project I made was the Paler Girl by Anna Kharitonova. I spent almost three days on Art Station and Pinterest, looking for a concept until I found her profile and I liked her style and the characters she made. I choose it because it has interesting shapes and also because the pose of the character is so dynamic and it has so many items that would challenge me.

The anatomy of the character was the main milestone for me, the interpretation of the body shape. The body in general was the biggest challenge, because it was so difficult to get the right proportions, the length of the arms, the size of the hands and also the size of the head.

But fortunately when you are following the program, you get very useful tools to understand how to keep proportions and some fundamentals to verify that your proportions are correct. Thanks to the feedback the instructors gave me, I started to notice my mistakes.

At the time I was in my last year of college, and I didn't have a lot of time to continue with the program. I was working from my laptop which isn't powerful.

I struggled using the different programs. I already used them, but for me it was confusing and sometimes it didn't work. I spent like 2 or more months trying to fix my UVs.

Fortunately, the instructors gave me advice and helped me, especially Alfredo, he's amazing. At the end I noticed the problem with my UVs and the correct method to export them. When it worked and I did my render, and the textures finally worked!

It was one of the best moments because finally I appreciated my character 100% finished. I was so happy.

I learned a lot, mostly how to use different softwares for a better result and a professional pipeline and how to present my characters with appeal and looking epic.

I want to remake this character in the future. This was my first full character sculpt and I think it would be amazing to see how much I've grown.

One of my favorite things about characters is when you can see them moving so I want to animate her.

And thanks to this project my networking has been increasing and I've been invited to participate in some projects and started a 3D sculpting internship.