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@locus7.bsky.social
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Multidisciplinary artist. Currently freelancing and open to new projects, primarily in concept art, illustration, hand-painted textures, and real-time 3D assets.

(they/them or he/him)

🎨 https://cara.app/locus7

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Got the tongue, teeth, and mouth interior integrated. Still need to tweak the size and angle of the overall dentition slightly. These tests are all a Rigify rig in Blender, with quick vertex weight assignment to fix teeth/eyelids, and no actual weight painting. Surprisingly functional! #b3d #gameart
Four portraits of a 3D character making different facial expressions.
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I'm fine with human mouths IRL, but making a semi-realistic mouth for a 3D character is the weirdest/grossest part for sure.

#zbrush
A ZBrush sculpt of a set of upper and lower teeth and gums. There is also a tongue resting between them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Update: Retopology is done, and I'm testing out poses and range of motion with a skeleton in Blender. The suit's texturing is a placeholder, and the face and hair are a work in progress, but it feels great to have gotten to this stage!

Lots of test poses next, then refining.

#b3d #zbrush #gameart
A render of a sci-fi character wearing a form-fitting vacuum suit. They're handling their gloved hand with their bare hand while looking off into the distance.
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
locus7.bsky.social
Decided I want to include gloves as an option in the base UV layout of the portfolio character. Aiming for semi-realistic on the form-fitting counter-pressure stuff (as opposed to pressurized) can get a little Giger-esque. Work in progress.

#zbrush
A ZBrush screenshot of some futuristic form-fitting gloves.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I did a quick bake and texture of the head and hair to test out my topology, get a better look at facial proportions, and decide how stylized I want the eyes to be. It feels good to get to this stage after a lot of sketching and sculpting.

EEVEE renders in Blender.

#zbrush #b3d
A portrait render of an androgynous feminine character wearing a space suit. A portrait render of an androgynous feminine character wearing a space suit. A portrait render of an androgynous feminine character wearing a space suit.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
locus7.bsky.social
This was actually pretty quick to make. Here's the low-poly textured version.

#b3d #zbrush #substancepainter
A screenshot showing a 3D eyeball.
October 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
locus7.bsky.social
Good shortcut for radial organic shapes. I'm playing around with sculpting an eye in ZBrush, and having a starting point is nice.

Shape with: Array + rotated target object > Skin > Geometry node [Noise Texture > an axis of Combine XYZ > offset value of Set Position] > Subdivision Surface.

#b3d
A screenshot from Blender showing the construction of an iris-like shape by using a rotated array modifier.
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Progress update: Pretty much done with the high-res sculpt, minus some mechanical odds and ends, and part of the way into retopology and UV unwrapping for the more finalized areas. Aiming for about 50K tris in the end, similar specs to something like Valorant or Apex Legends.

#zbrush #b3d #scifi
Untextured renders of a human character from the front and back. They are wearing a form-fitting body suit, boots, a partial ascent harness, and a backpack/neck-ring for a space helmet.
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Space haircut.

#zbrush
A ZBrush screenshot showing the neck and head of a feminine/androgynous character with a pixie undercut hairstyle.
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
locus7.bsky.social
The Pawnee had a hairstyle somewhat similar to what call a "Mohawk" but theirs generally emphasized a bare front of the scalp. The receding hairline aesthetic isn't currently in fashion as a masculine feature, but was pretty mainstream in the Americas and elsewhere (see also Edo period Japan!).
A photograph of A-sau-taw-ka, or White Horse, a Pawnee scout serving in the U.S. Army in the 1870s. He has a shaved or plucked head, except for a short mane or fin starting high up on the head, and continuing back to a series of long strands and at least one braid on the very back of the head.
October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Space boots.
A ZBrush screenshot of some futuristic boots, reminiscent of combat, motorcycle, and general workboots.
October 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Hi #portfolioday !

I'm Arrow, a senior generalist with over a decade of experience, available for freelance or full-time work in 3D character, prop, & environment art, as well as concept art & illustration. I love scifi, painterly, and retro 3D game art!

💼: www.locus7.com
📧: [email protected]
Three 2D illustrations of swords, made for the first three days of Swordtember 2025. An in-progress scifi character sculpt - a personal project from the second half of 2025. The image shows several views of a feminine person wearing a form-fitting mechanical counterpressure suit, boots, a partial climbing harness, and some life-support gear, all rendered in an untextured marble material. Several elements such as the hair are placeholders from the blocking out stage, and most elements will have another refining/polishing pass. Zbrush + Blender. A top-down game environment art study for a top-down scifi strategy game. This is concept art, visualizing height-map blended terrain textures and overall color schemes. Renders of several Playstation 1/Y2K low-poly low-res game assets. The top image shows a first-person view of the player holding an old kerosene lantern and a Gasser M1870 revolver. The bottom image shows both the lantern and revolver on a table, surrounded by fired and unfired cartridges and a spare cylinder.
October 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Back to working on this scifi character. Blocking out the suit, harness (for climbing/EVA), and minimalist life support gear.

#zbrush #b3d
An untextured render of an astronaut character wearing a form-fitting vacuum compression suit and some life support hardware.
September 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
locus7.bsky.social
Oh yeah, meant to tag #pixelart and #gameart too. Everything's 32x32, with some extra ground tiles for the shadows cast by the walls. As I recall, I used Pyxel Edit to make everything.
September 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Throwback to this little weekend project from 2015, when I was doing a Unity roguelike tutorial and wanted to make my own graphics.
A game screenshot showing a pixel art tileset of a pale violet moon-like landscape, several astronaut characters, a robotic creature, and some crates. A game screenshot showing a pixel art tileset of a pale violet moon-like landscape, an astronaut character, a robotic creature, and a crate. There is a UI mockup underneath with a character portrait.
September 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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A personal concept of a scifi base-building game environment. Thinking about how much could be done with height blending terrain textures, decals, and props.

#conceptart
A mockup screenshot of some kind of exploration or base-building game. The rocky terrain has fossils in it, and strange aquatic-looking plants. There is old wreckage in the sand on the right side of the picture.
September 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
locus7.bsky.social
Turning a big dial that says "androgyny" on it and looking back at a hypothetical somewhat mainstream audience for approval etc.

(Exploring hair and makeup options for a portfolio character)

#conceptart
Several paintovers exploring different hairstyles and makeup looks of a young androgynous woman. Several paintovers exploring different hairstyles and makeup looks of a young androgynous woman.
September 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Swordtember 2025
Day 3 - Automaton

#swordtember #swordtember2025
A digital illustration of a high-tech sword built into the forearm of an industrial-looking robotic limb. It has been removed from its original body, and repurposed as a hand-held weapon. The robot's gripper hand forms the hilt. Made in Blender, Corel Painter, and Photoshop.
September 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Swordtember 2025
Day 2 - Moss

#swordtember
A digital painting of a wide, heavy-bladed sword. The body of the sword is partly stone, more specifically raw ore, with lichen and moss growing on the surface.
September 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Swordtember 2025
Day 1 - Shell

#swordtember
A digital painting of a sword. The blade is made of a giant sheet of abalone shell, and the hilt and grip are cut from a portion of a ship's wheel. A strand of seaweed fades into the ocean in the background. Following the original 2025 prompt list. Made in Corel Painter.
September 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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This one was hard. I couldn't find many elegant solutions, but got stubborn and finished it anyway. It's messy, but I'm happy with the render regardless.

This is 11K faces for the base geometry, which I'm guessing is 2X or 3X Jordan Cain's model. I'm curious to see the wireframe on that one!

#b3d
A somewhat complex machined mechanical part (presumably a suppressor interior) rendered in two materials. A subdivided wireframe view of the parts. A wireframe of the part, pre-subdivision.
August 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
locus7.bsky.social
Tunnel Maintenance.

#scifi #conceptart
A human figure in a space suit floats through a large tunnel. The tunnel contains pipes, a tubular lighting fixture, and an alcove with a hatch and lots of technical gear.
August 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
locus7.bsky.social
I had a lot of headaches with little USB wifi dongles, and switched to one of these dedicated PCIe WIFI/Bluetooth cards with an external antenna. Not sure if it'd be more or less effective than boosting house WIFI, but it's way better than what I had before. Feels like a wired connection.
An AORUS WIFI/Bluetooth PCIe card with an external antenna.
August 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
locus7.bsky.social
Thinking more about space suits. These are more utilitarian than the previous suit, but basically the same tech. Figuring out reinforced harness elements, modular attachment points for hardware and pouches, protective boots, and the general tonal blocking and detail frequency.

#conceptart #scifi
Two people wearing futuristic space suits, in the form of mechanical counterpressure suits, with separate helmet ring/gas seal harness and life support systems. The character on the right has theirs attached, and is holding a helmet as well.
August 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
locus7.bsky.social
Dating myself a bit here. I think it was one of these two, although I can't remember which.
One of the kind of freaky werewolf-like aliens from Commander Keen. They acted weird and jumped really high while chasing the player. You had to have been there, and also five years old or something. One of the windows where a freaky polygonal monster is about to burst through, prior to me picking up any weapons or really experiencing combat in the first Alone in the Dark game.
August 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM