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It started with the saying : "Like taking candy from a Baby". Then I thought zombie baby. Then I thought a Zombie having a repressed memory surface. Odd stuff. I had a digital shot that I hand painted for all the zombie effects and then a Vue5 background. I wanted something sick. But something humorous at the same time.]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:15:35 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/539815

Mermaid greeter to the city of Atlantis. I used alot of devices for this piece. Poser, digital photography, my own stock shots, Vue 5 , Painter and Photoshop. I keep trying to expand on the mermaid fantasy because its more of a challenge to do an underwater scene. Its also makes me paint more of my backgrounds and rely less on clealry defined 3-d renderings.]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:16:34 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/537866

Something more along the macabre here. Never forgot the Indiana Jones and Tmple of Doom "heart" scene, and wanted to do something with a female alternative. Alot of stuff used here. Vue 5, Painter, Photoshop. I wanted to first show the body on the floor and then decided just on a blood trail.]]> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:31:25 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/534192

I tried several variations on this theme trying to figure out what I wanted to do. First was building the hover craft. That was done in photoshop separately.Piece by piece. Digital photography of a model and then placement on the hover craft. Then digitally altering the model from hair to clothing. I tried everything for a background. First trying digital photography and then settling on a Vue5 rendering to add in spacecraft. then to make the spacecraft more ominous I added the tentacles. I did fifteen mulitple texture layers...each for different effects and then wiped away what effects I didn't want and then added another layer doing the same thing. I think I have what i finally wanted. hope ya'll like]]> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:46:40 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/530529

My take on a deatheater....photodigital images combined with a vue5 background, handpainted most of the effects. Wanted to portray the image of the taking of a soul from an unwilling subject.]]> Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:38:52 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/506528

I had this vision of a new colony being built in space that was suddenly besieged by an unexpected meteor storm. I hand painted using Painter the earth-type planet backdrop. Vue 5 was used for the rig being constructed and the ships. Meteors were dodge tooled and then saturated and then layered with a motion blur. I handtooled segments of a spacesuit for my model and then sectioned them together and them mulitple-layered lighting effects over everything to mute colors.]]> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:35:47 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/503692

Wanted to create an apocolyptic fantasy/wixard scene...lotsa elements used here...most of the background is Vue 5 except for the old bridge which I dp-ed. Used painter for most of color schematics. The model is, of course, my business partner who is actually 28. So you can see alot fo work went in to creating wrinkles and aging factors. The staff itself was created a long time ago for another book cover, but I liked it so much I thought it would work well here. The orb is actually a fountain globe set atop handpainted birds claws and staff. I dodge-tooled comets and planets into the vista. The skulls were an old museum stock shots and I simply layered them back after running a perspective for distance to make them look as if they were sinking into the mire of the river.]]> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:31:14 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/502970

One of my friends, 80 years old, posed for this. I added the battlegear, building it piece by piece in photoshop. The backdrop is actually just a garden statue enlarged. Her face is totally photoshopped, and hair is handdrawn. Totally unrecognizable from the original shot. I did several variations on lighting until I settled on one from a right diagonal to give more mystery to the picture and more darkness to the foreground. My intent was to create an image of a general that was unexpected....an older woman.]]> Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:33:46 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/501779

I had this inspiration to do something on the order of the Ridley Scott Movie "Legend" where the hero meets ancompletely unexpected foe in the swamp. Here, lighting is everything to cast a supernatural feel. All the elements have to feel preternatural so I decided to go with alot of behind the scenes lights, then dramatic beneath the scene lights to capture the feeling of the immense serpent neath the water. I did about 50 layers here, all lit differently to capture the unearthly feel. The model was immensely morphed. I had pictures from trees in Vicksburg Tennesee for a backdrop, and then alot of the swamp was handpainted. Total hours 36.

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I wanted to do a dark fantasy...had an eighty year old model and couldn't resist using her as the evil, bloddthirsty queen....the head, of course, is my business partner...all in DP and Adobe here]]> Sat, 26 May 2007 14:45:25 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/499872

I actually did this for a sci-fi publisher ages ago using only dp and adobe. Didn't have all my other goodies to play with so i had to hand do most everything. The book, itself, had the feel of all those B-sci-fi classics from the fifties like "Invaders From Mars" and "Body Snatchers", so i tried to give it a real retro look.

Ya'll feel free to critique me all ya want. I think the feedback helps enormously cos , as you know, we artists have a tendency to get so close to our work we can be a bit blind.

Strange facts for the sidebar: The mad professor is actually my business partner...and the alien is..well...um..yours truly. (actually Im better-looking in person)
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I had the idea of this pagan princess summoning her own warrior from the sands of the desert...someone to protect her and dp her bidding..

I Used poser for the princess, digital photography for the warrior and then painted as much in the style and colors of the fantasy painters I have always enjoyed...]]> Mon, 21 May 2007 18:42:45 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/497853

I got inspired, I guess after one too many times watching LOR and Underworld...That girl of our dreams..beautiful, but deadly....so here she is thanx to adobe cs , painter, poser, vue5 and dp. Lots of hand tolling on this one one from clothes to the the accessories. If u have enuff beers, details aint a problem with art..lol]]> Sat, 19 May 2007 07:08:40 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/497379

I have been in my inspired Boris Vallejo-mood and thought I would try something I have never done before which is an underwater scene. So many conplexities with this I ended up experimenting well beyond my normal range with different textures in Vue5 and different opacity layers over the figure itself which is a combo of poser and digital photography of one of my models. Hopefully, I have conveyed the subtle feeling of water movement in her hair and the light layers from the surface to the depth. I used painter for alot of colors becase I didn't want "human" colors to the figure since she is obviously not a surface dweller.]]> Thu, 17 May 2007 21:12:05 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/497094

More Fantasy Cover Art... Painter, Vue5, Adobe, Poser and digital photography]]> Thu, 17 May 2007 01:48:08 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/496549

A tribute to the style of Boris Vallejo]]> Tue, 15 May 2007 18:42:43 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/496233

wanted to do a fresher, sexier take on a temple mistress to medusa....I think the snakeskin suit would be more apropo to turn a man to stone ( no pun intended) than an ugly head of snakes. This was a three day affair to accomplish using poser, digital photography, vue5, and painter. I struggle with making poser figures look as real as i want so alot of time went into handpainting and remanipulating the figure with a liquify tool in adobe.]]> Mon, 14 May 2007 23:02:59 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/496091

I had this image in my mind of a demon searching for the one magic piece of power hidden inside living things... lifetimes of searching for it and then finally discovering it in the wreckage of chaos...]]> Mon, 14 May 2007 15:04:54 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/495514

fantasy Book Cover]]> Sat, 12 May 2007 14:42:06 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/494989

I had this notion about the future when we could build our own "dates" and chose any celebrity icon we wanted. None bigger than Marilyn. This was 46 hours of work using almost every medium from photography of my model who was "transfigured" into marilyn, Vue 5, painter, adobe and poser...oh and the kitchen sink]]> Thu, 10 May 2007 17:49:34 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/492240

Lots of painter and photoshop... dragon mostly handpainted...god knows how many layers... 12 hours later!]]> Thu, 03 May 2007 05:24:44 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/490917

photodigital manipulation using adobe cs and corel painter]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:43:17 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/485773

Fantasy photo manipulation using adobe Cs. I did everything imaginable to this picture to create the old man and elf which, incidentally, are the same model. He is 25 and I tried to make him look 75. The wrinkles were drawn on a separate transparency layer and then applied rather than drawn on the figure itself. Hair and beard were a mixture of cloning and drawing and I must have shot a million things around the house to add as scenery bits. This one was 12 hours of "love"]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:06:23 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/485642

Photodigital book cover art]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:25:11 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/485640

Photodigital fantasy Book Cover art using Adobe cs and Painter]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:22:19 +0000 http://cerberusinc.cgsociety.org/gallery/485638

Photodigital rendering using adobe cs, vue 5 and Painter]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:18:21 +0000