Tiago Rios’ Character Art Takes Old Favorites and Brings them to New Life
He has a flair for dramatic and dynamic character portraits and a clear grasp of amazing lighting.
The Artist of the Week today is a character artist with one of the most cinematic eyes I have personally seen. Each of his characters are posed, lit and shot in a way that absolutely captures the characters core essence in every image.
Tiago takes a lot of old favorites and kicks them into the modern era, usually with a fair bit of badassery included. He has a good eye for bestial, monstrous characters but that does not seem to have effected his ability to develop realistic (if stylized) and believable human characters. I am especially a fan of his Megaman/Zero work that melds some awesome hard surface modeling with organics.
He is currently a character artist over at Santa Monica Studio. With a fantastic portfolio like his, I am pretty excited for what he can bring to an already amazing art team with such a great display of awesome art in their own portfolio.
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All art via Artstation.
