Mauricio Ruiz Design - Concept Art, Character & Creatures

[Mauricio Ruiz Design]

Hi Everyone!

Check out this Flying Motorcycle Drone concept I've been working on. I had started it a while back and am finally getting back to it. I'll be flushing out the rest of the vehicle design, then throwing a pilot on it. I actually already designed the pilot standing and is the Black Suit Character I designed and posted previously here, so I just gotta bring the two files together.

Post more soon! Thanks for checking it out!!

[Will Gibbons]

Cool! Are you using Zbrush for the modeling?

[Mauricio Ruiz Design]

Thank you!!

Yea, only ZBrush on this design.

[Mauricio Ruiz Design]

Rendered out a turntable animation for the bike!

I'm just figuring out the best animation export settings. I believe the ticks are caused by exporting a video into Premiere, as Premiere does something with how the frames interact, causing some of the ticks.

I'll render out a turntable with the individual Frames and stitch them together, as I've read some of the Keyshot Admins here have suggested for several reasons. I'll try that next and upload the difference.

https://vimeo.com/282351067

[Mauricio Ruiz Design]

Here's another turntable!

This was the intended pilot for the flying vehicle.

https://vimeo.com/282518003

[Mauricio Ruiz Design]

Hi everyone!

I flushed out the legs. This is the foot extended position. The foot appendages are designed to clamp onto the side of buildings and can retract and expose a wheel while on the ground. There is also a more compact position when flying, tucking the legs up on it's side like a bird to make room for the flying gear.

[Josh3D]

I'll take one! A little dark in some shots, but the concept looks great. Look forward to seeing where you take this.

[Mauricio Ruiz Design]

Thanks Josh!

Here are some more progress shots! This time the retracted appendages and extended wheel. Some influence from Ghost In The Shell Tachikoma's feet having wheels, but also functioning as feet, depending on the terrain. I also showed what the legs looked like tucked up on the sides while flying.

[Mauricio Ruiz Design]

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to share something new I just created. It's an original concept / personal project:

To The Spawning Grounds Of The Grand Basin

The migratory challenges of the Mobulas, a genus of ray in the family Mobulidae found worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas, as they travel to the spawning grounds of the Grand Basin; a massive Caldera surrounded by subterranean rivers, aquifers and lakes. The Mobulas can only mate once while they are young and small enough to navigate the meandering caves, often falling prey to predators. Reaching the spawning grounds is only half their journey, as they travel back out to sea, where they'll reach monumental proportions.

(Credit to BadKing for his ZBrush IMM Water Brushes that I used to create the water droplets / splashing water of the rays. Check them out here: https://www.badking.com.au/site/shop/organic-custom-brushes/splash-brush-set/ )


https://vimeo.com/295726346
https://vimeo.com/295726417
https://vimeo.com/295726376

[Mauricio Ruiz Design]

continuing my previous post:

[rembem]

I like the models but the render quality need a bit more attention

[Will Gibbons]

Lots of imaginative images here! Would be cool to see these brought to life in a film.

[Mauricio Ruiz Design]

rembem Thank you for the feedback. I'm still learning much about my render settings, so I appreciate the motivation toward that end. I'm blurring the edges of each frame possibly some other features in the Image Styles. Is there something specific you think I can improve or just generally everything? Haha

Will Gibbons Thank you! I would love to see some of my concepts animated, even just a cool idle animation. So much more to learn! Haha

[Mauricio Ruiz Design]

Hi Everyone!

I created this concept to showcase my new CREATURE KITS: Mandrill Teeth Kitbash Set! Still feeling my way through my render settings for stills and turntables. Any comments, critiques or tips are appreciated.

I started with the original Mandrill teeth (See Turntable), then segued into the creature you see here. Inspired by Japanese folklore creatures. (Yokai, Oni) I created these teeth sets to help other creature enthusiasts get more mileage from the time they have. Since these are existing animal teeth, altering them to create new teeth is a great foundation to start from.

Check out my Artstation store for more CREATURE KITS to come!

Turntables:

https://vimeo.com/307339293
https://vimeo.com/307339224
https://vimeo.com/306931662
https://vimeo.com/308116630

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In Her Clutches

"Europa's inner ocean may be capable of supporting simple lifeforms. A proposed lander may go and look for them in the 2030's." - NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center

Finished a series of images inspired from Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa. The ocean floor integration fell really flat in these renders, as I've not usually had the opportunity to build out larger scenes, so that's something I'm addressing in future concepts. I used Megascan assets for the rock and a custom texture I made using the Quixel Mixer, but I'm still learning how to integrate textures appropriately in the Material Graph in Keyshot.

Any comments, critiques or suggestions are welcomed!

Thank you!!