“I wanted to blend sci-fi elements with ordinary, mundane aspects of life” – how this concept artist created a sci-fi model reinventing the everyday

Anthony Brault is a concept artist from Ottawa, Canada. His piece ‘Funicular’ is a personal project inspired by the mundanity of waiting for a bus. Anthony used Plasticity for the modelling and Blender for the final renders, along with Substance 3D Painter and Photoshop.

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Anthony says: For this project, I wanted to try to blend sci-fi elements with ordinary, mundane aspects of life today. So I drew inspiration from perhaps one of the most boring experiences of all; waiting for the bus in Ottawa, my hometown. A lot of life is made up of these unremarkable moments, so I feel like there’s something very relatable about them.

I modelled the majority of the funicular in Plasticity. It’s a great software to experiment endlessly with Booleans and bevels. After adding textures in Substance 3D Painter, the model was rendered in Blender using Cycles.

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This content originally appeared in 3D World magazine.