About
In case you were wondering, my name is Dave Cox. I am a 3D Artist – currently working at visualhouse in London.
I never trained to be a 3d Artist, I originally wanted to be a Product Designer, I even went to University in Birmingham to learn how to be one. Once I graduated in 2007 I moved back to my hometown in Broadstairs and got a part-time job. It became apparent at the time that I was missing the city lifestyle so I got a jobs as Design Engineer and moved back to Birmingham.
I worked as a Design Engineer for about 2 1/2 years and during that time I made some great friends in the job but it was becoming more and more obvious to me that I wasn’t interested in the kind of work I was doing.
So one weekend I wrote around 100 emails and applied for just about every job going in London as a 3D Artist. Then in May 2011 I got my break…
That doesn’t really explain my change of heart, well it started at University. As I mentioned above I went to Uni to study Engineering Product Design and everything was going well until my last year where I came across one module on our course called “Product Visualisation”. We had several assignments to complete and for some reason I found myself obsessed with getting the lighting right and getting the materials spot on. I loved it. I literally could not get enough of it.
So alongside all of my university course work I would also make 3D models in my spare time using Cinema 4D (some of this can be seen in my Portfolio section). I started to get pretty good and by the time I was working as a Design Engineer – I was also freelancing as a 3D Visauliser. That is when my career interests started to shift. It was no longer a keen interest, it was now becoming a passion and one that I wanted to change into a career.
So I did!
Oh yeah an I also take photos…you should check that out… shootingdave.co.uk
hi, i just wanted to ask you how did you made to the BMW when modeling the body, your corners that sharp without ” pinch ” the car body ? Maybe a screenshot with wireframe on would be great closest to the rounded corners, to see how you put the edges and connections together. thx !