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 (75)
shadownet
Stunning!
altec101
WoW! Jacob yet another awesome City render ...excellent work.
AnIronButterfly
This is awesome! I enjoy seeing your futuristic cityscapes and this one does not disappoint...
aguirre
Cool. I'm just "celebrating" the Blade Runner 25th anniversary on DVD. Really atmospheric and detailed cityscape.
blainenorth
Great job!
Ailig68
Great work..I just love this kind of images...where's my Blade Runner DVD???? :)
timtripp
fantastic!
geirla
Great DOF! And POV and some other TLAs
Biffowitz
Fabulous cityscape and the DOF rocks!
OrphanedSoul
What a great image!
NefariousDrO
Very nicely done, very "Bladerunner" like feel.
CaperGirl42
WOW Awesome work!!! Congrats and thanks for sharing it with us!! Fav!!
FCLittle
Excellent work....
Orinoor
Really excellent work!
stonemason
looking nice JCD,good to see your still getting plenty of use out of the blocks :)..a crit if I may,you seem quite keen on using DOF,but for a cityscape it's one of the worst things you can do,distant objects in big vistas like this dont often blur,you'll get heavy aerial or atmospheric perpective but unless photographing a miniature you'd never get that kind of depth of field.I always get the feeling of a miniature looking at your renders..Try creating depth with just atmosphere effects and save the dof for immediate forground elements...& keep 'em coming,the colors in this one are very cool!(err..warm)
AwarenessLogic
Great work!
tetsu-pino
Superb!! Great work!!
IQ200
Excellent work!
jif3d
Talk about pollution, man that city needs the smog-busters ! I have to agree with Stefan (Stonemason) the DOF seems to make the scene look like more like a miniature, but that said, neat sci-fi scene and elements ! ~Cheers~
shotgung0d
The modern names on the signs really stand out for me in this futuristic setting. Really cool sci-fi cityscape!
Naneth36
Impressive !
faroutsider
Superb cityscape - I think I'll take my chances in the mountains...
Domi48
Is it a picture you took on your journey in the future?
cyberzen1
Great lighting
Nytoprod
excellent scene... ;o)
chippwalters
JCD, great job. I typically agree with Stefan regarding the DOF. In this case, it's actually not too bad as you are focussed on the vehicle and the rest of the scene has about the same amount of DOF blur. There's a website which actually has a tool to create 'miniature sets' doing the same sort of thing. You should try uploading some of your scenes and check it out :-) http://tiltshiftmaker.com/
Keymilan
Great atmo and lighting !
ThomasMacCallum
Brilliant, I love the convincing details of the street and how it works on so many scales
Destribats
Excellent as usual.
RAGraphicDesign
Bravo!!:)