Fine Art Drawings

     In my spare time I used to hand draw and improving my fine art skills. I love to draw during cold winter nights.  It feels nice to have a break from a computer screen from time to time and experiment just with pencil and paper. However, I planning to utilize my new Wacom tablet soon and create some interesting digital art.

Above are some of my first portraits. On the left I was trying to make younger version of Natalie Portman. Right one should be Ellen Page.

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New facial animation technology with Speech Graphics and SSSS

       Last week was very exciting regarding some new technological advancements in games art and in 3D  area overall, that I decided to write a wrap up of my favorites ones. 

       Jorge Jimenez, a real-time graphics programmer, has released a mind-blowing video that showcases the latest and final advances on real-time skin rendering (Separable Subsurface Scattering), which enable to quickly render skin in just two post-processing passes. What's really important here is that everything you are about to see is written from scratch using DirectX 10 and rendered in real-time, from the skin to the film grain.

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Logo Contest

       The new logo contest for GuildWars2guru.com fan site launched last week and I decided to join the competition. I prepared four concepts, although I wish I would have more time to actually work on them more. Nevertheless there are my entries.

With first two I was playing around with font graphics.

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