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Andrzej Kuziola
I am a self-taught digital artist. I qualified in Dentistry,
but no longer work in that profession. I am a freelance
illustrator and 3D modeller now and I really enjoy it.
Software such as CINEMA 4D, ZBrush and Photoshop
help me to create realms that would otherwise exist
only in my mind.
Parthenogenesis
CINEMA 4D, ZBrush,
Painter, Photoshop
(2009)
Parthenogenesis is
an asexual form of
reproduction where
growth and development
of embryos occurs without
fertilisation by a male.
This is my dark and twisted
interpretation of the word
‘Newborn’, which was the
theme for a contest. Polish
artist Zdzislaw Beksinski
was a great inspiration
behind this image.
Materials and lighting
Adding textures and setting the scene
I started the texturing process
04 in ZBrush with PolyPaint. After
establishing overall colours and painting
cavities, I moved to Painter where I created
proper textures mainly with Artists’ Oils before
exporting them to Photoshop, where I made
Bump maps by playing with Desaturate and
Levels. I used this workflow with some
modifications to texture all of the objects.
For the girl, I painted a fleshcoloured
map, which was placed in the
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Color and Diffusion channels of the standard
CINEMA 4D material along with modified maps
in the Bump and Specular channels. The most
time-consuming process was tweaking the
Luminance channel, which consisted of a
Subsurface Scattering layer in Dodge mode
with another colour bitmap beneath.
Teddy Bear Snacks CINEMA 4D, Photoshop, ZBrush (2008)
Pandemonium, the diabolical Boiler God, hungry for innocent,
cuddly teddy bears. I was inspired here by human sacrifices made
to teixiptlas [cult effigies or impersonators] in ancient Aztec
civilisation. This is another illustration created for a contest – this
time with the theme of ‘Boiler room’. It won third place in the
competition and was published in Expose 7.
For the demon, I created a few
06 different colour maps in Painter, which
I used in the material’s Color channel, modifying
desaturated versions in the Diffusion, Bump
and Specular Color channels. I wanted the
demon to look very stylised so I experimented
here to achieve a look similar to a portrait that’s
been painted with thick oil paints.
To set up lights, I used low-poly
07 meshes to speed up test renderings.
I like to accentuate different shapes and surfaces
so I used quite a lot of lights – mainly warmcoloured
ones with Area shadows and Inverse
Square Falloff applied. To illuminate the girl,
I also used blue lights and placed everything
inside a sphere as a Floor object so that the light
bounced off the sides.
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H2O CINEMA 4D,
Photoshop, ZBrush
(2009)
This is my first illustration
where, instead of the dark
arts, I started to create nice,
cute female characters with
bright colours. This
illustration was selected by
MAXON for promotion of
CINEMA 4D. It was
published in MAXON’s 2010
calendar and you can find it
in the gallery on the website
www.maxon.net.
When I was
08 happy with the
result, I swapped the models
with high-poly meshes and
rendered them in Advanced
Renderer with Global
Illumination, Ambient
Occlusion and a separate
Alpha channel for each object.
I made different renders for
the girl, for the demon and one
for the background, which I
filled with Fog material.