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Q. How did you get into computer graphics and what led you to concentarte on the organic side of CG ?
A. I started working with CG when I saw some 3D graphics produced in an Amiga computer, at age of 17 or something like that. That was just love at first sight I guess.
Then I had an Amiga for a long time and got my first PC at age of 21, a DX2 66Mhz running 3DStudio 3 for DOS. Then I never stopped. I tried several packages, like Lightwave, Max, Softimage, Maya and others. I fell in love with Maya since the first version and this is my main package today (together with Zbrush). About the organic side of CG, I think this was just an extension of my traditional work because I was always fascinated by the human body. I started working with organic models about 4 years ago only and I consider myself a beginner in this stuff. Im always studying to improve my perception about anatomy and body expression, which is probably the most challenging part. Because Im also a character animator, I can never ever stop studying the human body language and every new discovery is a great thing to me. Today I can create things I never dreamed I could and at the same time I have the perfect notion that in the next day I will look at it and will think dang! This looks really bad!. I am my biggest critic and I think Im right thinking this way. Otherwise I would be so full of ego and thinking I was so good I will simply stop improving my work. So, I prefer thinking my work is really bad all the time, comparing it to the works I believe are really good and trying to get closer in every work even if I never will produce something that's great. My focus keeps me alive :)
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Title: Psycho Girl and the Mutant Kangaroo This is an entry for the CGTalk/CGNetworks' "Master & Servant" Challenge, where I won the first prize.
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Q. You're currently Lead Character Artist at CafιFX - can you tell us more about your role and how you got it ?
A. In fact, Im not doing what a Lead artist is expected to do. Lots of other artists do pretty much the same thing I do. I think they gave me this title (written in my agreement) maybe to justify that they are hiring a foreigner for the job. We are all pretty much leads in some sequences of the shows we work, just because we are generalists. That means that sometimes we do modeling, texturing and animation for the same shot, making us leads for these specific shots. I like to think we all have supervisors but we can be leads when necessary, you know, the main guys for these specific shots.
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