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)

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 :

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 !
  

Hi Everyone!

I'm going to talk about my latest project with Substance live on youtube at 11 AM PST.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lVBXJe 

https://magazine.substance3d.com/ndebele-a-3d-hommage-to-esther-mahlangu/ 

Hi Everyone!

I'm happy to present to you my new logo from now on!

It's something that I really wanted to have, it took me a while.

Cheers !

Twitter : https://twitter.com/JeryceDia 

Insta : https://www.instagram.com/Jeryce/ 

Hi people!

I wanted today to talk to you about a really important subject for me.

Since my first participation in the Beyond Human Artstation Challenge in 2017, I never had the idea to make an Environment based on my culture. 

At first  I just wanted to make regular moderns houses, sci-fi,  and realistic grungy scenes, I found them beautiful, it's really inspiring to look the details that some artists can put on their scenes, I tried to do it but, I was forcing myself, the motivation wasn't there when 3DS max and other software were opened.

I was searching for something who inspired me, something that I could be very proud to create and show to my family that's why in every one of my scenes, by doing this I feel like they are blessing my scenes.

My parents are born the Republic of Congo, My dad, a Lari (Ethnicity) descendant, and my Mom both Mbochi and Kuyu. So yeah haha, in addition to my dad stories I have a lot of research to do since I'm Lari/Mbochi and Kuyu descendant.

Most of my creations are tributes, that is why I'm heavily studying everything that touches the African Art, for example, masks, symbols, places, different tradition, and languages to avoid mistakes. My goal is to create my own style and to properly create art with deep meaning. And I want to have a lot of fun too!

I'm deeply in love with Africa, everything from this continent are touching my soul and makes me smile.

I did a lot of different things in 3D and my heart is not doing the same sound when I'm working on that kind of scenes, that is why I'm going to practice and learn more on this subject.

Wakongo River

first African scene that I made in 2017, took me 2 months to find the idea for the Artstation challenge ( 80lvl Interview ) 

Golden Adinkras Mask: Each Adinkra Symbols on their forehead represents the values that my dad taught me

Third wooden Mask: Represent my GrandMa who passed away, I wanted to give her hommage in this scene

I printed the scene for mother's Birthday that year 

Teranga

First fully playable environment based on an actual place in Senegal, I discover the meaning of Teranga by growing up with a lot of Senegalese neighbors back in France. They quickly became like my family after many years so I dedicated this scene to them.

You're going to call me crazy but I made ALL those patterns by hand in Substance designer haha

 

I will continue those littles stories meanwhile you can check my other works in this album!

Thank you ! Merci !

Twitter / Instagram

Hi everyone 

I will be at the   MIGS - Montreal International Game Summit to give a portfolio reviews with Artstation

5PM TO 8PM on Monday, November 12 at the MIGS18 Mentors’ Lounge. 

See you there!

https://magazine.artstation.com/2018/11/migs18-artstation-portfolio-reviews-demos/?fbclid=IwAR3ZH3KssUE8WWkemWINB4jorLPuzel9S7NBEpqQDt_bThUba2dfloH9itY