Hey folks.
A bit of exciting news here. I've been working on SideTrip for the last 2 years and after all these months of developing each image, the series has finally been featured in a book by a pretty major publication. The feature is only for a couple pages amongst the 400+ page book featuring a variety of latest works and artists.
The book is titled 3D Game Graphics Bible 2017 from Shoesha (a Japanese publication), and SideTrip is featured amongst the 57 other triple-A titles such as Halo5, Yakuza 5, Monster Hunter Cross, Tekken, Street Fighter and many others. It honestly comes as a pretty big surprise an individual like myself can somehow land in such a huge book amongst some of the leaders of the industry.
I took some pictures of the insides, I can't take photos of anything else due to copyright concerns.
Check the book here (link is in Japanese)
http://www.shoeisha.co.jp/book/detail/9784798145617
If you ever visit Japan, or you live here, the book is available in most major book stores. It costs about 4000 yen or $40 not sure if it's available in the US.
SideTrip utilizes a bunch of high end programs. Unlike many others who just paint scenery in Photoshop, I usually model the entire thing in Modo and renders of that are fed into StudioArtist for heavy manual painting. I lately like to hide my brush strokes, but in general, the painterly appearance comes from using StudioArtist, the one and only.
Hopefully I'll continue working on these kinds of things just as usual. Will keep you folks updated on the stuff that happens here!
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Congratulations on the release of your new book.
Congratulations. Thats a big accomplishment and you images are beautiful. Getting them published in Japan is a big deal too. I worked as a designer in publishing for many years and know how great this is.
Congrats!
Hey, that's good news. I've enjoyed your images.