Drix | 2D & 3D Artist

WELCOME BACK SPRING

Drix — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:00:02 +0000

Hello World! Gotta love the spring, this winter was very harsh and we could only wait and dream of the spring to come faster with her powers.
This winter was insane , I was lucky to not be in a place where the snow covered the houses completely but nonetheless I had massive piles of snow reaching half of the house. Everyday I was shoveling for a good amount of hours, it was crazy. Roads blocked, internet dead, and I had exams I had to attend to, job interviews and so on right in the middle of the winter. I had to slow down everything, including working on scenes, I couldn’t do it anymore, the winter got me. I ain’t gonna lie but it’s all good now, It’s March 1st, the snow is starting to melt, the temperature is going up everyday, my hibernation mode is starting to shut off and maybe if nothing will interfere I can resume my 3D projects.
So good times maybe coming soon, new perspectives and all that.

For this iPost I did a scene, modeled, textured, lights and rendered in Maya 2012, textures and post work was done in Photoshop Cs5. Hope you like it, I wanted to create a scene that related to the spring, the central element, the cup, white blooming and empty symbolizing the purity that the spring brings, the red poppies on the cup that starts appearing in the spring, snowdrops are overrated lol, the trinkets that in Romania on March 1st mens offer to women, the backdrop bush that flowers in the spring, I don’t know why I’m describing all the image, you should figure this out but anyway enough shenanigans, have a great spring from me and hope to walk with you again soon.

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Cheers,
Vaduva Iulian 2011.

IT SKIPPED AUTUMN

Drix — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:10:05 +0000

^^ …but something strange happened, the season practically was either invisible, either has been defeated by some stupid winds that decided to come and ruin a perfect inspiring season.
Oh well, the winter has installed itself in an abusive way, like Microsoft did with Windows7 and HP laptops and others…

Anyways… that’s that.

On the other note, I like the road and the people on Romania is heading. They be firing people like crazy.
Before I had a portfolio companies/peeps they be like:

“-Ohh.. no folio, no reel, I’m not gonna answer you anymore! Buuuh!”

After this site was born and with it my folio now they be like:

“-Ohh.. folio, ok, Im’a look at it for 30 seconds and don’t care about it, I want a sample, choose something from what I need to be done and work for nothing and we’ll pick it up from there.”

Because I’m naive I do some researches, study, think about it, come with the concepts and the sample, show it to some friends to get some feedback and present it to them and they be like:

“-Ohh… ok, it’s nice, but I never did anything in my life but I’m starting to come with theories and random stupid critiques that are waaaaaaay outdated!”

And then again I find the real reason:

“-Ohh.. yes, I actually have 30-40 designers that I’m using that I’ve picked up from different places over the internet and they are all working for me for nothing and I’m just waiting for all of them to finish and choose the best one and then go from there.”

WOW, really, it’s sad when this happenes and I had like 6 experiences like I mentioned and I’m done, I’m really done searching 2 days jobs over the big old internet, if I had access to a worldwide tv station through which I can advice all of the guys that were doing like me, getting from different forums short jobs, I would’ve told them to stop doing it, these type of people that are literally using peeps like slaves and then choose the best one, really doesn’t deserve to live.

Of course I met some great people that I worked and everything gone great but the parity is way off.

Anyways, that was my rant and we love in a really upside-down world.
Awesome.

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Cheers,
Vaduva Iulian 2011.

INTENSITY

Drix — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:45:30 +0000

Damm…
So yesterday I decide to start a new 3D scene, I was pretty sure that for 2 weeks I can last without 3D and post some 2D works but… meh…

I got a cold and some stupid random rash that I can’t stand, but I managed to do a scene from start to finish.
That’s what I wanted to write about, working on this site for the past months I had to do random jobs like cleaning the scenes I did in the past, improve them a bit, do some texturing and render setups or lights, but I forgot how intense working on a full scene is. When I started modeling it was ok but after 10 minutes I forgot about anything else, I forgot about my cold, about eating, everything else was non-existing, it was like I wasn’t myself for some reason.
After a I finished the scene I felt like I was an tv unplugged from the power source.
These feelings aren’t new to me but they aren’t old so I keep getting them and feel weird. I didn’t decided if these feelings are bad or good or just random.
I reckon some day I will find out!

‘Till then, lots of love, lots of respect,
Signing out,
Vaduva Iulian 2011.

PS. Link to the scene I was mentioning:
Obscure Room
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I HATE ROLLERS

Drix — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:51:02 +0000

Huuumm…
There’s always something that delays me from posting and working on my portfolio. I had this scene done for 2 days and I didn’t had time to render it and post it. The scene was rushed due to the lack of time in my hands.
The scene was a nightmare from the lighting perspective, for some reason, I didn’t had time to troubleshoot the scene, the blues were standing out too much and ruining my shot and I had to get my hands dirty in photoshop.
The render time was around 15 to 20 minutes.
The number of polygons were 2400.
Normal maps and uv’s work were done too.
The cheap light beam was done in post in Photoshop.

Now back to my rant.
If my plans were to get away for a few weeks from 3D to refresh my system, the plans were ruined by my mom.
After her arrival from England(if you were following me on twitter you would knew) she decided to renovate the house. That means more phisical work for Drix.

I used rollers before but I had forgoten what a pain was to paint the walls. I had 7-8 walls to re-paint. Lemme tell you, I will have nightmares with rollers from now on.
I’m glad that I got rid of the rollers and I’m hoping I will never meet with a roller again.
Whew.
Now I have to get back to more work, I can’t wait for the winter to come so the amount of phisical work will diminish and that means more work on my folio.

Cheers ‘and as always, HAVE A NICE DAY’!

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Vaduva Iulian 2011.

Been busy

Drix — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:23:23 +0000

SO… yeah, I’ve kind’a been busy the past days, and still am with random errands and household work like cleaning and cooking everyday.
And I feel the need to take a break from working on my folio for a little while, the last 2 months I got involved too much, I feel like I need to take a break from 3D, I want to start working on 2D for a while, we’ll see about that.
ATM I’m just playing games like Minecraft, Fifa12, Limbo, San Francisco, Deus Ex Human Revolution, From Dust, Call of Juarez The Cartel and Dead Island.
I was thinking of starting a game review category, not pure reviews, people like to see video reviews of course, I understand that, I feel the same, but some random opinions that I have about each game.
Time will tell.
‘Till my next post ‘as always: HAVE A NICE DAY!’

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Cheers!
Vaduva Iulian 2011

A place of my own

Drix — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:34:12 +0000

I just want a place of my own where I can’t be disturbed nor found.
Is it too much to ask, I would place my house in the middle of the desert, I would share my house with the scorpions, snakes, jackals and hyenas.

Or I would place it in the woods, I would have a tea with the bears, eat with foxes, run with the rabbits and hunt with the coyotes.

Why?
Because at the end of the day, if I do something wrong, they won’t judge me like they’re God and they won’t bother me if I want loneliness.

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Cheers!
Vaduva Iulian 2011.

LONG WAY

Drix — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:29:24 +0000

I missed the other day from posting, I just slept all day, I didn’t felt so good.
Been having alot of dreams lately. They won’t stop. They’re not pleasent either.

But that’s not what this post is about, I’m just staring in the viewport of this scene, frozen, thinking about the long way I still have to walk.
A long way with this site, a long way with my career, long way with my studies, long way with the problems I deal everyday… they’re just so long(that’s what she said!).

Anyways, lemme keep staring, we’ll chat another day!

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Cheers.
Vaduva Iulian 2011.

ASHES TO ASHES

Drix — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:03:28 +0000

Not too much words for this iPost.
We all feel revenge in different quantities sooner or later.
Watching it from a 3rd person view it looks bad, but from a 1st person view of course the red flaming revenge looks perfectly normal.
It’s in our genes to punish people that have crossed a line, cheated, hated, doing something bad. We can’t deny it or stop the feeling.
It’s in our hand to shape the revenge feelings, they can be shaped to be just words, to rage or step it up more notches to dark shapes that I don’t wanna mention them, in here.

But anyways, choose wisely, only animals performs actions and after it they feel the consequences. People must use their brains and analyze first.

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Cheers.
Vaduva Iulian 2011.

I JUST WANNA SLEEP

Drix — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:12:32 +0000

Lately I feel the need to sleep more and more… just sleep all day, all night.

I dunno ‘wuasss gowinn’ awnnn’!
Maybe I’m just bored. Maybe I don’t want to hear anyone. Maybe I’m too dissapointed on me and I don’t wanna fight with me anymore and I want to ignore myself.
Maybe all the reasons are available. I just don’t know.
I love modeling and doing scenes.
When I start Maya it’s like I’m in another world, it’s a way for me of escaping of everything. I don’t need anything, besides water.
I feel weird, it’s all very intense. And I love it.
I’m just dissapointed of me because I can’t put my skills to work for production, but about this I will write in the next iPost(image post).

Something new

I decided to take a bigger render of the scenes for the blogs from now on.
Check out below:

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Cheers.
Vaduva Iulian 2011.

HIDING

Drix — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:40:38 +0000

^^ Nah, I won’t turn the picture frame around. Tisc tisc.

I won’t even stress this but today I decided to share a fact, because it’s a fact alright.
Now I’m talking directly to new generations out there, the generations that uses hi5, facebook, google+ and so on.
Doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or gal, I know you have hidden in your hard drive, somewhere, where nobody would ever found the folder with the pictures of the guy/gal you’re inlove. Haha. I knew it.
The HDD is our new drawer.
Thank god for the social networks, ey?!
On the serious side, it’s true that having pics with someone of the opposite sex hidden, without them approving it’s kinda creepy and… rash word, stalking???… but who cares man, that’s what makes it so great, no one knows, if you’re stealing and no one knows, not even the store from where you stolen the good, that’s like never happen. LOL.
Ok, I’ll stop ‘nao’ but yeah, I just wanted you to know that you’re not the only one that keeps stuff on da low key. I admit it, I am too, like dayumm, I have ‘dem’ like stacks on decks, signed, sealed and ready to be… hidden. Haha.
Joke on the side, enjoy you’re pics man, our ‘elders’ didn’t had this opportunity.

Just sayin’.
Cheers!

Vaduva Iulian 2011

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