zen castle

this is a zen sand castle i worked on a while back.

everything is real except the sand castle and the rocks... ( i know they suck =P)

horus

horus
this one is preety cool. i made it for a friend of mine ( Andres del Valle) he had the concept art and asked me if i could make it 3d.

i think i have a shaded version somewhere.. if i can't find it . i'll probably come back to it one day and  version it up :P

coin

just a coinin 3d

kma plant life

this one is old... very old.... i made it back in 2000 or 2001 i was learning pfx and had a sketch made by a friend of mine... ( Dave Baer) when were taking a microbiology class.
this is what turned  out... i call it k.m.a. plant life

ah1 shotdown.

this is a still and video of a vfx project i made for myself.
i think the final result was pretty cool. took like 2 or 3 weeks to complete on my spare time..

it made part of a presentation i made at evolve. ( intro to vfx)

ah1 shotdown from alex duque on Vimeo.

Poporo quimbaya

this one is preety old. i think i made it in 2003
it is called a poporo quimbaya its a precolombian artifact thingy.
it was part of an ad back in Colombia.

Archaeoranina

this one is preety cool
its called  Archaeoranina. one of my best friends who is a paleontologist discovered it and asked me to do a 3d recreation of it... maybe one day i'll come back to it. for color and animation.
thanks to my contribution i am now a co author for a scientific journal =D

achitectural

this is a series of architectural renders for a yogurt shop franchise..

Empy room

This was a project i just thought it be cool to do.
took a weekend i think

candle Light

Candle light

I had to do a zbrush workshop and thought that this project would suit well for the content of the workshop..
here is what i made for the presentation.

Marble ball

Marble Ball
I was explaning a process in DLT class and this came out

WAter and pill

Water and pill

this is also for DLT... thi one took three hours with render included ...

Toy Rocket

Toy rocket

This is my recreation of one of the homework assignments i give to the students.

Golf Ball

Golf ball

I know its cliche.. but had to do it!..

secretary
This is a character made for the Modeling 1 class i teach. 

its getting shape

With some fiddling and some photoshop work to blur out part of the bg so the text is more readable i think i'm making progress

1 hour later...

Ok.
I've beeing, playing with the setting for about an hour now.
 its a little back and forth. but so far. im getting the idea of this...

this is how it was looking like a little ago... and i guess that just by looking at it now you know how it has changed. =P

ok. after 30 minutes I'm finally beginning to customize my blog...

Hi everyone.

this is my first post!!
hope it turns out all right