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 (33)
ricardo719
He's so handsome, the skin and hair are magnificent, I can't wait to see his body! ;^) BRAVO!!!
Purrdey
My heart belongs to Byson but I will have some fun with Buddy hahahaha!
necrophage
awesome texture detail!
RAMWorks
I'm marry him in a heart beat. Probably a smoothy though!!! LOL Love the hair Cath, is this on the maps?? I can't remember if M4 has a hair option like V4 does that's built into the head mesh? In any case.. WOW!! You go girl!
wonderdesign
Brilliant ..........I really like what you doing :-)
Thelby
This is Ultra Realistic. The hair lines are some awesome piece of work!!!
Mec4D
Thank you, the hair are as a part of the texture + morph for the top..one of many options.. the hair looks cool even without the morph just "flat"..
joaq
Great hair with a lot of work!Buddy is fabulous Cath!!!Hugz!
shamstar
Excellent portrait. Well done.
MysticDaniel
Cath this render is so photorealistic. You have exceeded yourself! I can't believe I'm not the first to comment lol. The lighting is nothing but perfect and the textures are really wonderful and hard to believe, but true! I'm looking forward for previews of his body texture. Keep it up!!!!!!!!!
Brian S.
That's a Poser character?!?!?!?!? Wow! Fantastic work (as usual)
mathman
Beautiful work, Cath !
Shinola
Cant wait for him, love Byson and will get this one too..YOU ROCK!! Please include little tut like in Byson as that helped me soo much. :) He is gorgeous and such realism. Hope those lights work in Poser Pro!!
Mec4D
Thank you, the light was created for Poser 7 and Poser pro so it works 100% the render is from Poser pro above so it works for sure... I love Byson too , they are different ;) so there would always a place in the scene for both of them and many to come ;)
drifterlee
Gorgeous texture!!
MissKajunKitty
Outstanding Work !! :)
shipmanjonathan
Fantasterific! He's just incredible Cath! I can't wait to use him. Love it!
yelocloud
Another fantastic preview! Will there be displacement maps for things like body hair? Because even if he's "smooth" there are tiny hairs that aren't visible but have an affect on how light interacts realistically with the skin. But I have to say you've pretty much solved the issue of "realistic" skin in Poser ;-) Brava again.
Mec4D
Thank you, did you noticed Alex the skin of Byson when the light come from the side ? I can make something like that but it would be only visible in very closer shots, the eyelashes are almost round and not flat but hard to see in this resolution ...I will try tomorrow and post what I did, I need to make for that a Depth maps first..and that will be a lot of work...
flaviok
Perfeito minha amiga, realismo incrivel, aplausos (5)
3Dillusions
Your starting to freak me out, lol, that is so real looking :)
Killebrew
Man, that looks so real!
mauk
Excellent!!!!!
lkiilerich
Fantastic work!!! He really look as a real person!!!
RobbyBobby
I think I'm in love...OK, in lust.
choppski76
He's gorgeous. With files that size will he work in daz studio????
Mec4D
I don't know yet if it would works in Daz|Studio in case it don't I would have to create smaller maps to fix it, I do not render in Daz|Studio so I don't know yet.. with 4049x4049 was not a problem..
PapaBlueMarlin
Fantastic work Cath!!!
J5ive
Wow your progress is Excellent! This skin texture is one of the best ive seen in or out of poser!! The hair also is very realistic!! You are a Light and texture God or should i say Godess!! Great stuff as always!!! Did you say you use deep paint for theses results? Johnny
Mec4D
Thank you, yes I use Deep paint 3D and I do it in projection mode so the material fit the model the best way possible as anything else can beside other prog that use projection mode for texturing..