3D Art — Selected Renders

Characters, creatures, robots, props and environments — the modelling, texturing and rendering underneath everything else.

A selection from the work that predates the rooms: personal pieces, class projects and internship work from Başkent University onward, modelled and rendered in Blender, textured in Substance Painter, with ZBrush, Marvelous Designer and Quixel Mixer where they earned their place.

Most of it is about one thing at a time — a rusted robot, a mouse, a television with a face — pushed until the material reads. That discipline is what the installations run on now: a five-surface room is only as convincing as the rock at the base of the wall.

By: Özgür Kahraman — 3D & Immersive Artist
Year: 2021–2023
Role: 3D Artist
Tools: Blender
Substance 3D Painter
ZBrush
Marvelous Designer
Quixel Mixer

Characters & creatures

Something with a face

A photoreal mouse hanging from a wire in a forest — The Mouse, 2022 — Blender and Substance Painter

The Mouse — animation

The mouse on a white studio floor, whiskers catching the light — The Mouse — studio pass

The mouse from the side, tail curled — The Mouse — fur and tail

Elanor the Seaperson, 2021 — ZBrush, Blender, Substance

A pink three-eyed creature with a skull on its snail shell, on a bare branch in a forest — Death Slug, 2021

Death Slug — animation

A stylised low-poly basketball player in a red-and-white jersey dribbling — Low Poly Basketball Player, 2023 — game-ready, 4k polygons

Low Poly Basketball Player — turntable

A low-poly character in a yellow winter jacket and blue hair, three-quarter view — Low Poly Winter Character, 2023 — 3,337 polygons

Low Poly Winter Character — in scene

The winter character shown as render, base colour, normal map and roughness — Low Poly Winter Character — texture breakdown

Erina full length: white ponytail, a black cropped jacket over a gold top, black shorts and a chrome prosthetic leg, against near-black — Erina, 2021

Erina — turntable

A lone figure on a ridge in a pale wasteland, a round craft on the horizon — Wasteland, 2021

Robots & hard-surface

Metal that has been somewhere

Funky Bot close on a grey stage, round black eyes, chipped yellow paint — Funky Bot, 2022 — a robot that loves to dance

Funky Bot — turntable

Funky Bot head-on, paint chipped, one eye slightly higher than the other — Funky Bot — head

Funky Bot in three-quarter view showing the arm joints — Funky Bot — joints

Close on Funky Bot's hand and forearm cylinders — Funky Bot — hand

TeleviHead — night walk

TeleviHead: a thin robot whose head is an old television showing a yellow shouting face — TeleviHead, 2021 — a character from our old television

TeleviHead full figure, one hand raised to its screen — TeleviHead — full figure

TeleviHead — runway

A robot holding a human head under a floodlight, blurred city behind — Mobile Head, 2021

Mobile Head — sequence

Environments

Places

A dense cyberpunk city of stacked buildings and neon signs at night — Cyberpunkish City Design, 2021 — one procedural building, scattered, then signed

A neon noodle-bar sign on a stacked cyberpunk building — Cyberpunkish City — signage

A pet-shop sign and balconies in the cyberpunk city — Cyberpunkish City — street level

A hazy cyberpunk city of stacked towers, neon shop signs on their faces: Dusters, PC hunters, Dragon's Noodle

Dragon's Noodle — noodle, sushi, sake — a magenta neon sign on a tower corner

Dusters — pasta, burger, drinks — a lit sign with a burger on the roof of a tower

A virtual news studio

Props & product

Objects

Sony WF-C500, 2022 — a mockup for an advertising class, with sound

Black earbuds tumbling against a matching background — Sony earbuds — black

Pink earbuds tumbling against a matching background — Sony earbuds — pink

A Viking axe with a wrapped haft on a grey stage — Axe, 2021

Axe — throw

A retro Polaroid camera on a wooden table, a photograph falling from it — Haunted Polaroid, 2023 — cloth simulation for the falling picture

Haunted Polaroid — animation

A two-slot toaster on a wooden counter, a Christmas tree behind — Some Props, 2021 — toaster

A stainless-steel kettle on a grey stage — Some Props — kettle

Houdini

Things that behave

Houdini studies from 2022: particles and dynamics — the kind of motion that has to be simulated rather than keyed, and that later turned into the particle and fluid systems in the rooms.

Houdini — particle head

Houdini — particle figure

Houdini — snail