Catharina has a passion for and has followed after many traditional kinds of artwork however she has discovered her greatest love lies in the creation of digital computer graphics. Catharina is highly recognized within the 3D community, and has acquired a reputation as one of the best creators of digital character and UV texture maps. Her photo-realistic textures have become best sellers on the Internet and she attributes much of this success to her mastery of the products Deep Paint 3D and DeepUV. Much of Catharina's work reflects a distinct originality and is unique in its ability to evoke emotion. As such, Catharina has won many awards. Her characters portray a high standard of realism, and her work is now considered to be revolutionary in character believability. Catharina's understanding and use of technology along with her understanding of photography, use of light and 10 years experience with Modeling/TV/Film work allow her to display her artistic talent giving her artwork a definitive presence. She has been in the industry for the past 24 years, her work never seizes rise to expectation. Her creativity is without boundaries or limits, she is an inspiration to other aspiring artist.
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Catharina's works featured by Media and Press:
* NVIDIA worldwide social media feature " The New Face of Iray "
* FOCUS Print News Magazine 03/04 Germany
*3D World Magazine 43 /03
*FXSoftwares- Creature Creator and Creature Creator Pro soft.Box cover -Europe
*Right Hemisphere - Visual Communication -USA
*TV 60 Film-Productions -Germany ARD/ZDF
*John De Mol (Endemol)TV Production for RTL/TV show- Netherlands/Germany
*Editorial Illustration/Business and Finance The New York Times Various issues USA
*Computer Graphics World Anniversary Issue Print Magazine
*Yahoo! Life Print Magazine Korea Middle-earth map characters of "Lord of The Rings "
*Editorial Illustration/Discovery Science Newsday Various issues- USA
*Ziff Davis Media Inc. New York Opener for "Lord of the Rings" The Fellowship of the Ring.
*Press Release for Poser/Right Hemisphere Community
*AV Video Multimedia Producer Print Magazine- USA
*Digital Photo User Print Magazine -England
*Computer Arts Print Magazine - England
*Right Hemisphere - Featured Artist of the Month -USA
*AV Video Multimedia Producer Print Magazine Interview- USA
*Digi Vision Print Magazine and Magazine CD-R cover-Interview Taiwan Books:
*Poser 4 Pro Pack f/x & Design from Coriolis Autor: Richard Schrand
*Poser 4 Handbook by R. Shamms MortierCharles River Media
*Poser5 Handbook Manual by Curious Labs �2004
*Poser6 Tutorial Manual by Curious Labs �2005
*Poser6 Revealed: The Official Guide by Kelly Murdock, Thomson Course Tech. �2005
* Poser6- Secrets of Poser Experts, Official e-frontier Guide by Daryl Wise and Jesse DeRooy �2006-2007
* And many other........
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Comments (40)
Brian S.
Wow! That looks fantastic!!!
Tharcion
That is... I'm old enough to remember when this kind of thing was totally impossible on a super-computer, and now you can do it with a PC. Awesome!
mathman
Wowowowow...
Mec4D
Thank you, I tell you rendering time was not longer that 4 min on Dual Core 64-bit system and Vista. I was thinking it will take forever with the all 2GB maps i loaded into but well it worked smooth and rendered on maximum firefly setting , all maps was in resolution of 4000x4000 tif , my new VAIO laptop make me so glad :)
jaybutton
Looks like he is coming along great. His nostrils seem to still need a little work, though. Looking forward to this product! Jay
Mec4D
Yes Jay, the nostrils changed when I made this face expression in funny way, can't fix it in this image any way. this only one thing what bother me here about.
poconopixie
That is so fantastic I am speechless.
doarte
A tough smoking-hot image.Bravo! +5 ...from doarte's 'MADHOUSE'
Krid
perfect "portrait" with fantastic skin texture and lightning
MysticDaniel
Looking great Cath! I'd really really love to see a full face frontal though with the skin shaders and all LOL. "Smoking hot" it should be called "f**king hot" LOL
magickmedbh
That's amazing! Fabulous work!!!
ragouc
Very good light and texture. GREAT....
Wazz
You really know a thing or two about light and shaders. Respect!
Mec4D
To tell you the truth I am not really into the MAT, but I do it my old-school way using image maps and 10 years experiences with Poser pay off sometimes ;) but not always.. the old way still works wonderful with the new technology until they find out how to make everything synthetic.
earthturist
...perfect!
Shinola
WOW! Your talent is amazing, such realism. Excellent. Still learning myself, sooo far to go..sigh
PsychoNaut
Uh you could not get more real with this guy standing before me. Wow
Speech
Darn good, cough cough.... that stogie's real right?
nosawayne
Amazing!!!
Thelby
I am impressed, but I have to say I have not seen any more real looking teeth than these!!! Spectacular Cath!!!!!
iambrose
Awesome detail!
shamstar
Great close up work. Well done.
fabriced
superb!!!!
shipmanjonathan
I see you went with the Cigar. lol. Looks fabulous! Love the smoke effect! Byson's textures look outstanding! Love it Cath!
Darkglass
Extraordinary work very realistic! Master Class!
ramhernan
Once i find my jaw i will comment here, lol Now serious, your texture over the entire skin and the maps working together its amazing! awesome facial hair effect indeed! about the nostrils..maybe you invaded (even a lil can have a huge effect when a morph is used) the nostrils region with the skin shaders... or viceversa? A real proffesional texture work Cath, Congrats!
boeing
Top notch as usual!!
RodolfoCiminelli
Fantastic realism......!!!!
eportscreations
Impressive work! I look forward to seeing more.
Babajaga
fantastic, verry realistic