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Last Airbender |
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Grey's Anatomy Promo VFX |
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Interview with Bobby Chiu |
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License to dream |
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Focus : Gears Of War 3 |
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Dragon Age 2 |
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Bioshock Infinite |
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Time travellers Comic |
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Envirometer |
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Thelma and Louise Remake |
Other Features | |
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Interview With Nick Harris |
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Making Art for Ipad |
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Making VFX for Ben Hur Remake |
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Interview : Mike winkelmann |
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Baby Data |
Part 4
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I.A : Wha's the most difficult picture you've made? why?
CDL : The most difficult pictures I have made was my last job, a children book project that according to my client will be released in September or October of this year. The entire job took from September 2008 until May 2009. It was hard work, I did all the illustrations and paintings and also model sheets for other purposes. It is a very interesting project. I ‘m not allowed to give more details about it, but the client said that probably in July she will release something to the press and I will be allowed to post some of images in my website and portfolio.
I can talk about my second most difficult image though, Rockstar. While I was doing it, I decided with my partner to produce pin-ups and post them in as many forums as possible to show people what we could do and how we work.
Before that I used to do commission for clients, cartoons, children illustrations (which I loved), and comic book coloring. We decided to stop doing things that did not make us happy and invest in our own product: Pin-ups. Those images would be the first ones: the one to show our product to the audience.
We thought about a theme that would catch people's attention and came up with a rock show. As women are much more appealing to pin-ups we came up with the idea of drawing a sexy girl playing guitar. We decided some points about the picture: the girl should have tattoos, there are reasons why those tattoos are there, why she has a tiger and a dragon on her legs, a red rose on her arm. Originally the red rose tattoo was in a different arm, I have changed it later in the painting process. The perspective was a challenge, the color's study too. I chose strong and energetic colors without making the image annoying to our eyes, so while doing the lights and shadows were very difficult too. Fortunately, I guess I got a good result and we were very happy and proud of it.
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.A : What's your favorite? why ?
My favourite picture is Jolly Halloween 2007 (Abgail) that I decided to use it at my logo. She is one of our characters developed for a future projects. It was a special occasion when I did it, we were thinking about a monster, funny, sexy girl, something like a mummy, when I had an insight about a sexy witch. I did the sketch and sent to my partner who liked it although it was very different than what we had agreed.
I do not know how to explain, but the work flew so nice and I had so many pleasure searching and choosing patterns, adding details to the image… when I finished it I was very happy an motivated that in the same week I also did Marie Antoinette’s Revenge image.
After posting both images in the forums I have a surprise that Marie Antoinette received an award while Jolly Halloween had many good comments. I did not expect awards but in my opinion Jolly Halloween was more attractive than Marie Antoinette.
Do you think that the fact you're a girl impacts your style and/or your vision of the CG world?
Wow, this is a tough question. I do not think being a girl is something that affects my style within CG world. We have excellent female artists in every area of CG, illustration, painting, design, animation even 3D. Just take a look at Its Art Galleries and you find dozens of amazing images done by girls. I prefer doing my pinups with women and humour, trying to tell a story behind the image, lot of elements and details inside them that are related to the conception; it doesn’t matter if the main character is a cute little girl or a sexy woman.
Maybe the world has a sort of prejudice about women doing art, thinking we, women, produce only “cute” drawings, fairies, children illustrations, babies, and so on. One thing I can say; the female figure is more attractive than male figure, and women know very well how to draw women as well as men. Score one for the girls, hahahaha.
