Guest Judges for our Monthly DMP Challenges!

#1

Heyo All,

Each month, we’re gonna also try to feature a guest judge from the industry as well to help us judge these monthly mini dmp challenges. For the month of September, please welcome Fabio Barretta Zungrone.

Fabio started his career in 2004 after graduating at the European Institute of Design in Rome. After 3 years working on movies and TV series, he moved to Madrid to join Ilion Animation Studio on their first CG feature, Planet 51.

In 2010, he joined the Cinematic team at Blizzard entertainment, working as a senior matte painter on projects like StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, Diablo III, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm and World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor.

His work has been featured in 3d Artist magazine, D’artiste Matte Painting 3, Ballistic Expose 7, 3d total Prime books and the 3d total card game Prime Wars.

You can see some of his professional and personal work on his website at http://www.fabiobarretta.com with a preview of his work below:

And with the introduction of Fabio, a friendly reminder that just ONE more week remains on the competition for September 2014’s “Ancient Walled Kingdom”. Good luck everyone!!

#2

We’d like to introduce this month of November’s special guest judge, Heather Abels! She is also the new instructor for our Part 2: Photo Real Matte Painting which will feature some great advanced digimatte techniques. Definitely sign up soon as it starts next week with a few more spots left!! View here: http://workshops.cgsociety.org/courseinfo.php?id=550

About: Heather began her career in visual effects in 2005 at Matte World Digital while earning her masters at the Academy of Art. Matte painting on feature films for the last 9 years she has worked at high end vfx studios including Matte World Digital, The Orphanage, Weta Digital and Rhythm & Hues. She recently left her job at Rhythm & Hues as matte painting supervisor to join the newly developing set extension team at Walt Disney Animation where she has been working on her first animated feature “Big Hero 6”. She currently lives in Burbank with her husband and 2 sons.

You can see some of his professional and personal work on her website at http://www.heatherabels.com with a preview of her work below:

DMP from “Avatar”

DMP from “Big Miracle”

DMP from “Life of Pi”

DMP from “Night at the Museum 2”

DMP from “Winter’s Tale”

Good luck to everyone in the “Barlangis” theme this month of November!

#3

here are a couple wip’S SKETCHED OUT The finnished is in the gallery maybe placed here later.

#4

Hi Bruce,

This isn’t the place to post your WIP and work, please post it in the main challenge forum here with the syntax outlined in the guidelines of the challenge:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=370

Once you do that, send me a PM/email and I will delete this post.