RDO Ortiz
c Designer d Kingdom
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I was born and raised in sunny Spain. I grabbed my first pencil at the age of four, and I haven’t released it yet. I’ve always felt inclined towards traditional painting, especially watercolors. My work had basically a traditional approach until I discovered digital painting five years ago, but I actually try to maintain certain traditional principles applied to my digital paintings. My favorite themes are science fiction and dark fantasy. I enjoy designing all kind of creatures, characters and places. I’ve been working in Spain as a freelance illustrator and also giving concept design courses, until a job offer made me leave my country to go to the U.K.
A part of the game industry I’ve always been passionate about the worlds inside the games, movies and entertainment industry, and I think I have good ideas and approaches to offer to help people enjoy their time spent playing a game. My passion is to give shape to concepts; give them a face, a personality, an atmosphere. I am capable of transforming ideas into drawings, and drawings into something you can almost touch. That’s what the industry is about, so I believe I am in the right place.
Equipment Hardware: PC, Cintiq, 22HD, Bamboo. Software: Photoshop, Painter, ZBrush. Today I´m working in the industry right now. Currently I´m Concept Artist at Rare Ltd, Microsoft Studios. Future I´d like to be designing spaceships :)
Challenges I think there is a lot of people out there with great ideas and big projects going on, so I expect to contribute to any of them. In personal terms, I expect to grow as much as I can as a game artist.
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