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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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.A : In what way do you think you're producing art, and what's your own definition of this word?
Hmmmmm. I love doing pinups, creating my own images, with a story behind them. I am always seeking something new, different, new version even for some well known images from other artists that inspire me. I am always looking for new knowledge to improve my skills and help me to produce better drawings and paintings; you can see through my images the way I work, I keep the basic idea of concept art: humour, attractive composition, color scheme, interesting characters, details and elements that complement the image, etc.
I try to show not only the final result but also the sketches, references and some steps during my work, so people can see and have an idea about how I did the job. There is an entire researching time and dedication that go beyond the final result.
This is producing art in my opinion. I hope my images can reach as many people as possible and they can make people laugh, think, admire, being motivated and inspired in somehow as I feel when I see an image that inspires me.
This is one definition of art to me. Something that inspires you, motivates you, touches your senses.
Art you just feel it you should not have to critique it. A piece of art that is beautiful for one person may be not nice for another.
I.A : If you'd to reinterpret a favorite piece of art what would be your
choice? why?
CDL : I am a Leyendecker’s fan, so if I had to redraw some image I would like to choose one of his amazing jobs, its title is Easter, 1923. The link, just in case. I think this piece of art has unique touch of humour and the idea, conception, is brilliant. Probably, I would spend hours and hours thinking what I could do in this image. Of course, as a fan of him my main concerns were how to make it to honour him.
I.A : What would be your advice to a new cg artist to find it's own style and way?
CDL : Hmmmmm. As I have said before, an artist, in my opinion, has to have knowledge about art, real old fashion art, not only about software or hardware. They are tools, the artist is you. You have to control your tools not be a slave of them.
For sure, digital art, CG, other forms and Medias where we can express our art are important and have their own value and we have to explore them to reach as many people as it is possible.
Look for other artist’s art pieces, read about them, search for information in reliable sites and try, always try without fear. Do your art, continue studying and some time later come back to see it again and judge it based on your new knowledge in a positive way. You will see errors that you didn’t see before. This is part of the learning process. You will avoid former errors and will do better pieces next time.
I.A : Anything else?
I would like to thank Its Art for this wonderful opportunity. For any artist, having the chance to talk about her/his work is something very important, especially in such notorious site as “Its Art.” This opportunity is unique. I hope all your readers enjoy the answers and I would like to apologize in advance for my English. I am still learning. Thank you all. Cheers.