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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!]]> Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:54:04 +0000 http://thaldir.cgsociety.org/blog/4274
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! ]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:45:32 +0000 http://thaldir.cgsociety.org/blog/4090
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.






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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! ]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:55:11 +0000