Tucho online portfolio

tower_defense_wars

2011-11-30T10:41:00.000-08:00

Low poly models for a tower defense game for Android

3dart_f3ar_gallery

2011-07-07T09:07:00.000-07:00

Hard surface assets that I made for F3ar game, it was an honour for me to take part in this awesome project.

3dart_scream_ios_gallery

2011-07-06T08:15:00.000-07:00

Ultra low poly characters (less than 500 tris) for Scream 4 iOS game.

about_me_new

2011-06-28T10:24:00.000-07:00

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Tucho Fernández Calo

Personal information

Tucho Fernández Calo
Porto do Son, A Coruña, Spain
E-mail: tucho at artbytucho.com
Date of birth: 21th June 1981

Summary

Games worked on:

As freelancer:

Fear 3 from Day 1 Studios (XBOX360, PS3 and PC).
Risen 2 from Piranha bytes (XBOX360, PS3 and PC, not released yet).
The adventures of Tin Tin from Ubisoft (3DS).
Gangstar Rio: City of Saints from Gameloft (iPhone, iPad and Android)
The Pit from Freedom Factory (PS3, not released yet).
Scream 4 iOS from Codeglue and The Weinstein Company (iPhone and iPad)
The Last Mage from Summer Time Studio (Android).
Exiled Heroes from Nerlaska Studio (PC, not released yet).

As employee:

Wanted: Weapons of Fate from Grin (XBOX360, PS3 and PC).
Motion Sports from Ubisoft. (XBOX360).
Unannounced AAA project from Grin.
2 Unannounced XboxLive projects from Grin.
The Scourge Project from Tragnarion Studios (Released on PC. XBOX360 and PS3 not released yet).

Personal projects:

Glest (freeware RTS game, PC).

Artistic and technical skills

Highly detailed realtime prop and character creation, using several software to model, texture and generate normals, mainly: 3ds max, Zbrush, Topogun, Photoshop and Xnormal.
I Also have experience working with several game engines: Unreal engine3, Diesel engine, Torque, Nebula and Glest engine.

Professional experience

2010/2012 Work as freelance prop and character artist for several companies (Barcelona)

2009/2010 Prop creation for Motion Sports, a project from Ubisoft (Barcelona)

2009 Prop creation for an unannounced AAA project and two XboxLive projects from Grin (Barcelona).

2008 Worked as freelance character artist for the game Exiled Heroes from Nerlaska studios (Castellón).

2007/2008 Prop creation for "Wanted", a project from Grin (Barcelona).

2007 Awarded 10th place in the 2007 Dominance War international character creation challenge.

2005/2007 Environment and character creation for "Scourge", a project from Tragnarion Studios (Palma de Mallorca).

2004/2005 Background and concept art creation for the film “Bieito Dubidoso” from Deboura Cultural (Vigo).

2003/2005 Creation of the whole graphic content in Glest, the free real-time strategy game, that won the 1st prize at Art Futura 2004 (Barcelona) and Mundos Digitales 2005 (A Coruña). This project was released by several game magazines like Bravo Screenfun (250.000 copies) and has more than 1.300.000 downloads from the official site.

2002 Illustrations for the book "O Reino de Galicia" and "O memorial do infortunio" published by A Nosa Terra (Vigo).

2002 Illustrations for the "e-negociogalicia" magazine published by the Centro de Competencias en Comercio Electrónico (Santiago).

2002 While on the illustration course, worked as intern at the CESGA (Supercomputing Center of Galicia) in Santiago.

Education

2002/2003 3ds max course
PC Carrier school (Santiago).

2000/2002 Formative cycle of top degree in illustration
Pablo Picasso Art School (A Coruña).

1997/1999 Secondary Education
I.E.S. Fraga de Novio (Porto do Son, A Coruña).

3dart_dino_gallery

2011-06-28T08:06:00.000-07:00

Models for a cancelled project from Grin Studios.

Snow Teaser from David Llopis on Vimeo.

3dart_tower_gallery

2011-06-28T08:01:00.000-07:00

Some artwork for a cancelled project from Grin Studios.

3dart_vegetation_gallery

2011-06-28T07:56:00.000-07:00

Some trees and plants (also fungus ;)).

3dart_sport_bag_gallery

2011-06-28T07:27:00.000-07:00

Promotional artwork for a fitness game.

3dart_triceratops_gallery

2011-06-23T10:42:00.000-07:00

My small tribute to Charles R. Knight.

3dart_ios_project_gallery

2011-06-23T10:03:00.000-07:00

A cartoon soldier for a personal iOS project, I hope keep posting pictures of more characters soon.

3dart_koi_fish_gallery

2011-06-23T09:57:00.000-07:00

Just a koi fish and a turtle pond.

2011-06-23T09:24:00.000-07:00

Final low poly model, about 800 tris and 512 diffuse map.

High poly models with diffuse texture applied.

3dart_new_galleries

2011-06-23T08:28:00.000-07:00

3dart_diesel_gallery

2011-01-25T10:30:00.000-08:00

Diesel clothing items for PS3 avatars.

3dart_warlock_gallery

2010-09-30T09:40:00.000-07:00

Just a powerful warlock.

3dart_miscellaneous_gallery

2009-11-28T15:19:00.000-08:00

3dart_exiled_heroes_gallery

2009-11-28T15:18:00.000-08:00

Characters for Exiled Heroes from Nerlaska Studio.

3dart_wanted_gallery

2009-11-28T15:17:00.000-08:00

Props, tilesets and backdrops for Wanted Weapons of Fate.

Bullet for loading screen:
I made the model and textures using 3ds max, photoshop and Zbrush and my good friend Tommy made the render in V-ray

illustration_misc

2007-10-03T12:01:00.000-07:00

illustration_misfortune_memorial

2007-08-19T18:13:00.000-07:00

illustration_galician_mythical_beings

2007-08-19T18:05:00.001-07:00

illustration_the_kings_of_galicia

2007-08-19T17:55:00.000-07:00

illustration

2007-08-19T17:05:00.002-07:00

concept_characters

2007-08-19T17:05:00.001-07:00

concept_environments&objects

2007-08-19T16:28:00.001-07:00

about_me

2007-08-04T07:12:00.000-07:00

Download my CV

Tucho Fernández Calo
Porto do Son, A Coruña, Spain
E-mail: tucho at artbytucho.com
Date of birth: 21th June 1981

Games worked on:

As freelancer:

Fear 3 from Day 1 Studios (XBOX360, PS3 and PC, not released yet).
Risen 2 from Piranha bytes (XBOX360, PS3 and PC, not released yet).
The Pit from Freedom Factory (PS3), not released yet).
Scream 4 iOS from Codeglue and The Weinstein Company (iPhone and iPad)
Exiled Heroes from Nerlaska Studio (PC, not released yet).

As employee:

Wanted: Weapons of Fate from Grin (XBOX360, PS3 and PC).
Motion Sports from Ubisoft. (XBOX360).
Unannounced AAA project from Grin.
2 Unannounced XboxLive projects from Grin.
The Scourge Project from Tragnarion Studios (Released on PC. XBOX360 and PS3 not released yet).

Personal projects:

Glest (freeware RTS game, PC).

Highly detailed realtime prop and character creation, using several software to model, texture and generate normals, mainly: 3ds max, Zbrush, Photoshop, crazy bump and Xnormal.
I Also have experience working with several game engines: Unreal engine3, Diesel engine, Torque, Nebula and Glest engine.

2010/2011 Work as freelance prop and character artist for several companies (Barcelona)

2009/2010 Prop creation for Motion Sports, a project from Ubisoft (Barcelona)

2009 Prop creation for an unannounced AAA project and two XboxLive projects from Grin (Barcelona).

2008 Worked as freelance character artist for the game Exiled Heroes from Nerlaska studios (Castellón).

2007/2008 Prop creation for "Wanted", a project from Grin (Barcelona).

2007 Awarded 10th place in the 2007 Dominance War international character creation challenge.

2005/2007 Environment and character creation for "Scourge", a project from Tragnarion Studios (Palma de Mallorca).

2004/2005 Background and concept art creation for the film “Bieito Dubidoso” from Deboura Cultural (Vigo).

2003/2005 Creation of the whole graphic content in Glest, the free real-time strategy game, that won the 1st prize at Art Futura 2004 (Barcelona) and Mundos Digitales 2005 (A Coruña). This project was released by several game magazines like Bravo Screenfun (250.000 copies) and has more than 1.300.000 downloads from the official site.

2002 Illustrations for the book "O Reino de Galicia" and "O memorial do infortunio" published by A Nosa Terra (Vigo).

2002 Illustrations for the "e-negociogalicia" magazine published by the Centro de Competencias en Comercio Electrónico (Santiago).

2002 While on the illustration course, worked as intern at the CESGA (Supercomputing Center of Galicia) in Santiago.

2002/2003 3ds max course
PC Carrier school (Santiago).

2000/2002 Formative cycle of top degree in illustration
Pablo Picasso Art School (A Coruña).

1997/1999 Secondary Education
I.E.S. Fraga de Novio (Porto do Son, A Coruña).

3dart_glest_gallery

2007-08-03T09:13:00.000-07:00

Glest is a free real-time strategy game, that won the 1st prize at Art Futura 2004 (Barcelona) and Mundos Digitales 2005 (A Coruña). This project was released by several game magazines like Bravo Screenfun (250.000 copies) and has more than 1.300.000 downloads from the official site.

concept

2007-08-01T17:06:00.001-07:00

3dart_cartoonsoldier_gallery

2007-07-31T16:43:00.000-07:00

Cartoon Soldier.

3dart_forklift_gallery

2007-07-31T16:37:00.000-07:00

High tech forklift.

3dart_T.Rex_gallery

2007-07-31T16:23:00.000-07:00

Retro Tyrannosaurus Rex.

WIP

2007-07-30T14:17:00.000-07:00

This site is under construction

3dart_heavy_infantry_gallery

2007-07-30T14:09:00.000-07:00

10th Dominance War II champion.

3dart

2007-07-23T18:34:00.000-07:00

11

2007-07-19T16:59:00.001-07:00

9

2007-07-19T16:56:00.001-07:00

7

2007-07-19T16:54:00.005-07:00

Forklift

2007-07-19T16:54:00.003-07:00

5

2007-07-19T16:54:00.001-07:00

Low_poly_cartoon_soldier

2007-07-19T16:53:00.005-07:00

3

2007-07-19T16:53:00.003-07:00

Glest

2007-07-19T16:53:00.001-07:00

1

2007-07-19T16:49:00.001-07:00