We're going to open some Senior Environment Artists roles at Cliffhanger Games, if you're interested send me a DM here or message on Linkedin

Cheers !

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerycedia/

https://www.ea.com/ea-studios/cliffhanger-games

It is my honor to share with you that my "3D African Art" talk at the Birmingham Design Festival 2022 will be Sat 11th Jun - 12:00Pm ! 

Pretty excited !  

https://birminghamdesignfestival.org.uk/whats-on/events/jeryce-dianingana-talk/

store link : https://www.artstation.com/a/13210212

• 12 HighPoly, Decimated rocks
• Zbrush Tool FIle
• No UV's
• Marmoset Renders not provided

Rocks made during "TheClub" community discord server yearly challenge 

project here : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4XaJVL

Renders made in Marmoset 4 using RayTracing with the decimated FBX (no Uv's / Textures)

Justin Kasereka hosted a session in a Goma, RD Congo about visual art exposing my 3D Afro-art.

I can't even describe the feeling of sharing my work with my people.

Very proud to announce that I'm a member of this year Future Class.
Thanks to The Game Awards it's a big honor !

https://thegameawards.com/future-class

"Who represents the future of our incredible video game industry?
Today we are introducing #TheGameAwards
Future Class 2021, 50 inspiring individuals from across gaming.

Meet all 50 of them and hear their stories now!"

"Good" Black Hair in games appreciation blog

Bad examples and disscusions for Context :

- How hard is it to make Spider-Man's hair? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MWfWwiedOg&ab_channel=Polygon

- Black Representation in video games : Hairstyles : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEo6lqHObxs&ab_channel=JoshSTATiX

- Reddit : You cannot make a convincing black person in cyberpunk 2077:https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/kaph49/you_cannot_make_a_convincing_black_person_in/

- Dear Video Game Character Creators: You Still Need Work : https://jrous001.medium.com/dear-video-games-character-creators-you-still-need-work-1ac27ffa2820

- The Natural: The Trouble Portraying Blackness in Video Games : https://kotaku.com/the-natural-the-trouble-portraying-blackness-in-video-1736504384

- Why are black Hair options still so limited in Video Games : https://www.popdust.com/black-hair-in-video-games-2646210119.html

- (Comic video) How Character Customization be for Black People on Video Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeY8Xn8vSTI&t=2s&ab_channel=RDCworld1

- Creating Myself (Not me, Jeryce)  In Monster Hunter World Rise : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_3me-VVzU&ab_channel=TheOuterhaven

We Need To Fix Black Hair in Video Games - The Blessing Show

Barber/websites for references :

• https://www.instagram.com/ibeenafrican/

• https://www.instagram.com/trinaydidit/

• Traditional African hair styles (Facebook)

• 52 Beautiful Traditional African Hairstyles 2023

• 36 Gorgeous Traditional African Hairstyles for the Trendy Black Woman

Tutorials

Cornrow/Braids - Realtime hair breakdown/tutorial by Hazel Brown

How To Create A Fade Hairstyle - Game Art by TriGon

"Good" Black Hair in Games :

Music : Ludwig Göransson ft. Baaba Maal - Wakanda

This song is in pulaar language (Fuuta, North of Senegal). Baaba Maal is calling the name of the ancestor Sidi (son of) Gañsiri (mother) and grandson of Demba (grandfather) from the tooroodo leading class (the noble) and the whole country (saare) to inform them about the passing away of a great person -one of them. Ñiiwa (Elephant), Ngaari (Bull) or Mbaroodi (Lion) is used to name those great persons.   

The death of an elephant, a metaphor for a fallen monarch.

Music : Ludwig Göransson ft. Baaba Maal - Wakanda

Scenes used: 

• Wakongo Hotel: https://artstation.com/artwork/QrrxwL

• Efelo: https://artstation.com/artwork/0wWwe

• Chokwe: https://artstation.com/artwork/qAw9Xe

• Savanah :https://www.artstation.com/artwork/q9eQDz

Rest in power 

https://www.instagram.com/jeryce

https://twitter.com/JeryceDia

Hey everyone !

 it's been a while that I didn't make an environment and I'm very excited to get back into it. 

 Before starting this one I wanted to be more comfortable with Zbrush, I love statues and masks, not being able to make them properly always troubled me.

Ndebele  , Mwana Pwo and Enhle

After my Wakongo River, I had this idea of an interior scene keeping the same style that I'm calling now Afro-Deco which is the fusion of Traditional art and Modern architecture.

Very smalls Sci-Fi elements will be added, I want to keep certain credibility as it could really exist in the near future.

A lot of iterations have been made, 

The blockout is almost done and the mood/Lighting is there. The next big step will be about asset production

Current WIP screenshot in Unity HDRP 2019.3 with RTX GI / reflections

Thank you for reading !