Hi, I’m Sophia Smolenkova — a CGI artist focused on distinctive female characters and visual storytelling. I can: develop concepts, sculpt, model, retopologize, texture, create lookdev, pose characters, and prepare final renders. My focus: expressive faces, unusual silhouettes, materials, and strong character identity. Software: Blender, ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, Marvelous Designer, Adobe Photoshop, and After Effects.

Babulita is a character-driven CGI project set in a world where garden pests have suddenly grown to enormous proportions. To protect her beloved garden, Babulita turns to an unusual solution: cultivating dangerous Venus flytraps inside an old, broken pot.

The project was developed as a complete character pipeline, spanning concept and sculpting through retopology, texturing, rigging, posing, and final presentation. I focused on giving Babulita a strong personality through her exaggerated facial features, accessories, clothing, and body language, while ensuring the visual storytelling remained clear across both close-up character studies and the final environment scene. The result is a stylized heroine whose design communicates humor, determination, and narrative at first glance.

ORCHID is a character-driven CGI project set in a future where nearly all natural life has vanished. Far removed from the rest of the world, the last surviving orchid is protected by a young woman whose body has been augmented by advanced technology.

The project explores the tension between organic fragility and artificial evolution. I developed the character through sculpting, modeling, texturing, lookdev, and final rendering, focusing on the interplay between her facial features, technological modifications, clothing, and the orchid itself. The final image portrays her not merely as a futuristic character, but as a guardian whose identity is intrinsically linked to the last remnant of living nature she protects.