I'm a painter, turned illustrator, turned designer from Seattle that now makes a living as a senior creative director in middle of the desert in Phoenix, Arizona. Life is strange to say the least. A few years ago I returned to painting, through traded my Winsor brushes and Golden Acrylics for Poser, Vue, and Photoshop, and have since resumed doing commercial illustration for a select clientele. I mainly work in 3D, but almost everything I do is overpainted until my wrist hurts as I just can't roll with squeaky clean stuff - it's not in my nature.
Recently my work has appeared in Ballistic Publishing's EXPOSÉ, was added to Steve Wozniak's personal art collection, been featured at MacWorld San Francisco and can soon be seen on limited edition tee's at Barney's New York and Fred Segal Los Angeles.
I'm married with three cats and can't seem to have less than ten Mac's in the house at any given time... you never know, I may need that bondi blue iMac for something one day ;)
You can read my full bio and see more pretty pictures on my site: JacobCharlesDietz.com
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Comments (60)
JCD
Thanks to everyone for taking and look and for all the great comments! @Chipp: The smoke is indeed all done in post as I am yet to fully get a handle on metaclouds and keep returning to Photoshop to get it 'right' ;)
grafikeer
The darkness adds to the mood of this piece...excellent scene all around-composition,detail and mood...well done!
dbrv6
JCD, Great stuff and very well balanced. Wonderful setup with the squad and tank. The darkness is almost a necessity, its a hard question of how to illustrate it. Similar to the bombers - how do you show in art the affect of extreme high altitude bombers? Carpet bombing though - scary stuff.
45Cool
Most excellent and beautiful image!!!! Superb POV and the atmo!!!!! Instant fave!!!!
Andor
Excellent SF scene! Perfect lighting, composition and render. 5+
sdj
Truly amazing, you render war scenes like no one else !
jgmart
Awesome render
Stardust_Crossing
Outstanding sci-fi scene! Great details and texture!
Miska7
Very nice scene. Excellent lighting and textures! Great atmosphere and details. Very well done!
Schnuck
Excellent!!!
ragouc
STUNNING. Great scene, very good pose and composition. 5++++
Biffowitz
Awesome artwork my friend, this looks amazing!
Orinoor
Most excellent scene, very realistic. It is good too, to remind us of our work ahead to make sure this remains a fiction. Bravo!
Office_Linebacker
Great render! I love the take driver’s silhouette.
cvrad
Very Cool reminds me of the minatures game Warhammer 40K! Well done you can feel the soldiers nervousness to get this thing battle started!
2Mylent
Cette image est vraiment épatante; on pourrais croire à un PrintScreen d'un jeu vidéo du style "Battelfield 2053" :o) Mise en scène excellente, lumières et FX très détaillés.... bref mon nouveau fond d'écran :D
pixelmeister
Cool scene!
decadence
Wow Fantastic scene!!
JOEANOMALY
Excellent composition and atmosphere...awesome battle image!!!!!
deci6el
Yep, I'm with everyone on the composition and FX, all working very well. The Darkness issue is always your call as there might be something worth making people look harder for the details, which are all there to see on my monitor. But I wouldn't complain if there were a bit more lumens in the foreground. The aircraft, technically might be a bit too low and the scale of the bombs too big, but then I immediately see the worth of stretching reality to tell the whole story, ie; if the bombs were any smaller you might not read them right away and the if the planes were higher they would be off-screen. All-in-all, very successful. Love the peace graffiti irony.
Moebius87
Uber-bad-arse render! This has got to be one of my very favorite. :o)
thecytron
Awesome!
moochagoo
That's terrific !!!!
kanzler
Fantastic atmo,fx and models!Great work!
SIGMAWORLD
EXCELLENT ! I wish you a very happy New Year!
mr-jack
great war scene...love the grungy action..and the tank looks fab
leoshades
That is a keen scene...
dzfire1102
Hey Buddy, this is great! Had to put up on the wall in my work room.
Beta-One
wow, just truly amazing.
rikomortis
Most excellent !!!!!