I’m finally doing some personal work again. It has started very innocently. I was just relaxing at the Sunday afternoon and I opened the Zbrush and sculpt a head. It looked pretty good so a have decided to add the body. Ok, and then a hat. And the next thing I know is that I’m working on the full male character with the proper mesh topology, UVs and Hires textures ). I have also spoke with my friend loocas and set out a deal that we will try to make a short animation, some sort of teaser, together. So loocas will hopefully deliver the rigs and the animation and I will try to make it look as realistic and beautiful as I possibly could. Its pretty challenging in the light of the facts that we are making this project in our spare time and we dream about the quality somewhere between Blur and Blizzard ) . But who need to sleep when you can put your veins on to the coffee infusion, right? Heh, just kiding. Anyway I’m really looking forward to see this finished though the finish is somewhere over the horizont…

Here you have some WIP pictures to judge the quality and dont hesitate to write me some comments. Critique is always welcome )
BTW: If you’re not completely familiar with the Goon mythology you may find some information HERE

See ya guys

Some time ago I have been given a great chance to present some of my works on the very prestigious internet gallery, RAPH, which I think most of the cg artists known for a long time. My name even appear on the Featured Artist list as a “Artist of the Month”  which is very cool. When I afterwards look at the list of the names who represent the jury, my jaw fall down. The Jury there is full the greatest names in the field of Cg industry. Names like Pascal Blanché, Krishnamurti Costa, Alessandro Baldasseroni, Steven Hagg Stahlberg and many, many others. I just feel very flattered so I put together a small  email, whare I express how honored I feel that the Jury like my atrworks. And then something amazing happend! Raphael Benedet, the founder of this site offer me to become a member of the Jury. No need to tell where was the location of my jaw again ). On the page, where I was often founding an inspiration and a huge amout of beautiful artworks when I was starting with computer graphic, now I appear as one of the Jury. I have to say that I am very proud on this…

Btw.: Call me Dredd. JUDGE Dredd ))))

Here is a link to a little chat between folks from 3dtotal.com and me. So if You are interested in reading my crappy thoughts you can download this pdf or yu can buy the whole 3DCreative Magazin, belive me it’s worth it.

New Render Out is coming and I am very happy to say that my artwork Happy birthday Mr. Romero get the whole page in this great graphic magazine. You can download it for free on this page.

I want to introduce you this mighty project I have the honor to work on. The Giger DVD contains about two hours of unique shots mapping the live of this surrealistic artist from Switzerland. Concerning the fact that he is engaged in painting, sculpture and film-making, the DVD medium was ideal for depiction of his creative skills.

The idea to create a DVD about H.R.Giger originated a couple of years ago and it aim to produce a fine art piece, which can introduce Giger and his work in its best. There are many special features like interview with his friends and colleagues and also Gigers first short film debut “High and Heimkiller”.

The main feature of this project is certainly the “Art in motion” section. It’s about digitally modified and animated picture compositions from all the important periods of Geiger’s lifetime work, accompanied with psychedelic music.

We can’t afford to re-make the Gigers paintings or suppose whats outside the frame. So we try to stimulate the inside theme and somehow brign it to live. We choose the technique of camera projected pictures on 3d surface witch allow us to make some animation in this pictures.

For more information visit homepage of this project, where you may actually order this DVD. Its worth it…

Directed: by David N. Jahn
Director of photography: Zbyněk Kunc
Editing: Goran Balov
Sound design: Jan Šmejkal
Producers: Lída Ordnungová, Pavla Prunerová, Tomáš Sobola
3D artists: Filip Nový, Tomáš Král, Michal Suchánek, Petr Lukšan…

This is a comercial shot that I did for UPP. It was done by using 3Dsmax and V-Ray for render. It was quite challenging to do a believable and realistic ice shader. In the end was the custorem very pleased by the result and gave us some bottles for free ))

Tomas Kral – visual effects
David Pekarek - visual effects
Jiri Linhart - visual effects(particles only)
Peter Nemec - Flame artist