Hello, friends!

I'm back home after a few days in beautiful Paris.
Some time away from tablet and PC has done wonders to get the creative juices flowing again, as did finding oneself in a different, rich and not-usual environment.

Tons of material and tons of ideas, now I've only to wait on the 'go-ahead' on a couple of projects to get my schedule moving.

Happy to have gone and happy to be back!

Hi, everybody!

I'm counting days for the holidays. From the 4th to the 9th of July I'll be in one of my favored cities, Paris, for a few days of R & R and a lot of reference hunting.

I'm very likely to have no internet access, but I'll check my mail as soon as I come back, so all messages(if anyone needs to get in touch with me) will be answered as soon as possible after the 9th.

Happy holidays to all!

During and after the Challenge I found myself doing something totally new.

Up to now I've been primarily a character guy. Yes, I like landscapes, I drool over matte paintings but all in all my experience is 95% character-related.
...at least until a Danish company got in touch: they are developing the on-line game related to Topia World (the one of Sinja), and they told me they were interested in visuals for the game, mostly athmosphere-landscape related. The AD for Topia had recommended me, and could I be intererested in the matter?

I definitely was. The trial run went smoothly, the work was fun, the AD a delight, and lists of desiderata kept coming in.

On Friday I sent in the very last piece, just in time for the week-end, and I'm now enjoying a bit of R &R (including a stint with good old Neverwinter Nights 2) before the next contract is due to start.

After the illustrations come out of NDA (this summer) I'll post a few of those I like best in my portfolio.

A few days ago I recived notification that "Sinja" (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=591514) has been selected for inclusion in Exposè 6... I'm still stunned.

The cards I've painted for the CCG 'A Game of Thrones' by Fantasy Flight Games just went out of non disclosure.

They were painted last summer and in the beginning where supposed to be out last November, then the company decided to re-structure the game doing away with the 'collectable' part and reorganizing the way new cards would come into play and that brought a delay.

I've just heard from the AD that the cards will be out in two days, all the three I did are included in the release *and* we can start showing them around.

My next update, this Sunday, will be one of them, stay tuned!