Wishing Japan fast recovery

I felt compelled to use my creative ability to make something visual to address my feelings to what has happened to Japanese people on March 11 2011

Mine and my family hearts and thoughts goes to Japanese people trough last couple of days. We wish them fast and strong recovery.

DRAGON DESIGN MARATHON FINISHED

I managed to finish my Marathon in time, but have been busy after it and forgot to update the news here, so here I am now. Heh, it's weird to write this stuff that probably wont be read ever, except for me, again in 35 years when I'l laugh my old farty ass of to all this :)

Hmm, I wonder if my website will stick around for next 35 years?

Anyways, the challenge is completed, in time, thx God to that. I thought I wont make it on couple occasions due to other stuff I had on me along this Marathon. But I prevailed, and it's a great feeling I can tell that much.

Now that this is behind me, I have about ton of ideas for cool imagery with dragons and stuff.

I need to press with these and flesh out couple of really neat visuals.
I also rendered new cooler and more representative images of each dragon which can be found on my website..

Here is how couple of these neat renders look.
If you wanna see all 55 dragons go to my webpage, gallery section.

DRAGON MARATHON reaching halfway!!

I'm reaching halfway into my personal challenge, my dragon design marathon.

It will be a rich concept art dragon gallery once finished.

Dont have to much time on me to write longer post,, instead I will put some pics of finished dragons up and leaving the link above to the complete gallery at deviant art.

When I finish the challenge, I will upload all step by step videos shot at 1fps.

There wont be all 55 dragons videos, cos sometimes my Zbrush app crashed in the middle of the modeling process causing to lose some videos...

Anyways, here are some of the dragons, if you wanna see the gallery follow the link above.

55 DRAGONS MARATHON

I'm about to start a Marathon!
It is going to be 3d Modeling Marathon.
Goal is to model 55 dragon designs by the end of February.
I'm going to model busts mostly, sometimes I even might get the whole body, It will mostly depend on how busy I'll be during February.
Competition, my self, I need to beat my self. Deep down inside, me thinks I wont make it, then again, there is that other me, somewhere inside my chest who thinks I will kick that "deep down inside" version of me's butt.

I should update two dragons a day in order to make it, or three or more in one day if i miss out submitting on any of the coming days..

Wish me luck :)

The gallery for 55 Dragons is here:

http://airt.deviantart.com/gallery/28486992

PALEOART

I'm so much into it, I know about it, but I never thought about the term, who brought it up first, who are the notable representatives and those kind of things.

I could write about Paleoart for days if I wanted to and had that time, but I'l try and keep it short and simple..

Mark Hallett was the guy that came up with the term paleoart in 1970ties , and among many, he is one of those guys I respect and love his work the most.
He was the one of people who broke some of those misconceptions about cold blooded, lazy, dumbass Dinosaurs.

His, Douglas Hendersons and John Sibbicks work influenced me when I was growing up, they inspired me to do what I do now in early 1990ties and I love it since.

You wouldn't be wrong if you said, Damir G Martin, Paleoartist, cos I love making Dinosaur related illustrations and models, and sometimes even more, combining it with sci fi elements to add up to the already mysterious ancient past of our planet .

Paleoart is a form that brings Paleontology to wider audiences trough sculpture, illustrations, illustrated books and movies. Sometimes, paleoart is essential bit for paleontologists helping them better understand the fossils they dug out.

In most cases Paleoart is the last stop in paleontology. After excavation, cleaning of fossilized material, putting it together and adding(assuming) missing parts, paleoart comes into play to round up the process of determining how something might have looked, mooved, sounded like and so on.

Paleoart in it self is one of the most exciting art forms, as it gives you so much to think about. Imagination and science combined, bringing back to life monsters and creatures that inhabited our planet millions of years ago.

I love Paleoart and I love dinosaurs!

PS: please excuse my potential illiteracy from word to word, English is not my native language after all.

Mark Hallett ©

Douglas Henderson ©

John Sibbick ©

Damir G Martin ©