CGAfrica 101: Latunde-Dada Oluseyi from Nigeria
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We really love the character design field and especially the work done by African 3D artists that we see out there on the internet. It’s amazing to see the amount of details some of their characters have.
To give you an idea of how awesome character design is, we picked some examples from Abdelwahab Essam, a 3D artist from Cairo, Egypt.
Abdelwahab has been doing this for over 5 years now and uses Autodesk Maya, Zbrush, Arnold, to make these amazing characters.
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