AWARDS / INTERVIEWS / PUBLISHINGS

The interviews, published images, translated tutorials and awards are something that I am really proud of because they give me a feeling that every day of hard work has been worthwhile. Most of these materials are from last few years, but there are some from the early years which boosted my motivation at that time and gave me the strength to continue. Well, here are some...

AWARDS

CGSociety CG Choice Awards:

2005 - Dawn of Balance
2006 - Experiment Chamber
2007 - It Was You
2012 - Tesla
2012 - Consumed

3D Total Gallery - [LINK] - 13 of my images were selected to appear in 3D total gallery

CGHUB Gold Award:

2010 - Experiment Chamber
2010 - It Was You
2010 - Fall
2010 - 16-bit memories
2012 - Tesla
2012 - Consumed

CGHUB Master Artist Award [LINK] [MASTER ARTISTS]

CGSociety Featured portfolio [LINK] [IMAGE] - My Portfolio was selected as Featured Portfolio

CGSociety Featured portfolio 2012 - 2nd time [LINK] - My Portfolio was selected as Featured Portfolio for the second time

AUTODESK Maya Master Nominee - 2007 - [IMAGE] - I didn't won the master award but it surely is a big deal to get included in the nominees

Hacker magazine [SEE IMAGE] - Award for the best art of the year, it was one of my first awards. I won Corel 7 package.

Internet Raytracing Competition (IRTC)

1999 - Beyond Horizon - award for best technical merit
1999 - Human and Nature - award for best technical merit

DeviantArt - Daily Deviation selection

2010 - Dawn of Balance
2010 - 16-bit memories
2012 - Tesla

INTERVIEWS

3D Kingdom - 2003 - [SEE PAGES] - This was my first interview with great 3D community site

Digitaltutors - 2006 - [SEE PAGES] - One of the most important companies for 3D training did an interview with me

3D Creative magazine - 2007 - [SEE PAGES] - An interview with great 3D Magazine published online

Autodesk Area - 2007 - [SEE PAGES] - Autodesk made an interview with me and I wrote one tutorial for them

CADesigner magazine - 2007 - [SEE PAGES] - Magazine from Taipei, Taiwan did an interview with me

CG Chosen magazine - 2007 - [SEE PAGES] - CG chosen electronic magazine asked me for an interview

3DTotal - 2008 - [SEE PAGES] - One of the most popular portals for graphics, 3D Total, did an interview with me

3DValley - 2008 - [SEE PAGES] - Another nice 3D portal asked me for an interview

Animation Today magazine - 2008 - [SEE PAGES] - interview in leading computer animation magazine in India

3dhr.net - 2009 - [SEE PAGES] - Interview with Croatian 3D web community

EyesOnPixel - 2010 - [SEE PAGES] - web site for web design and graphics asked me for an interview

Ragmag magazine - 2011 - [SEE PAGES] - entertainment magazine based in Beirut, Lebanon asked me for an interview

 

PUBLISHED - IMAGES and ARTICLES

HACKER magazine - 1996 - [SEE IMAGE] - This is where I started. Croatian gaming magazine had a monthly gallery for new artists. This got me interested in doing digital art and I started sending my images. They were published in 4 issues. Good old days. :)

POVRay Book - 1999 - [SEE IMAGE] - One of my first published images for first book about POVRay in Japan

3D User - 2003 - [SEE IMAGE] - Magazine from Taiwan published my tutorial on HDRI lighting in Maya

DIGITAL PRODUCTION MAGAZINE - 2004 - [SEE IMAGE] - German magazine included my illustration Dawn of Balance
in the review of rendering engine finalRender

KIOSK MAGAZINE - 2005 - [SEE IMAGE] - Magazine published my image Slow Decay as a cover page. There was also some small text about me included in magazine.

Maya 7 Revealed - 2006 - [SEE IMAGE] - My image Slow Decay was used as a cover for the book

EXPOSE 4 BOOK - 2006 - [SEE IMAGE] - Slow Decay image was published in Cityscapes section. This was first time that my image was published in Expose books.

EXPOSE 5 BOOK - 2007 - [SEE PAGES] - Two of my images (Experiment Chamber and World Above) were published and I received the Excellence award for both of them.

IMAGINE FX - 2007 - [SEE PAGES] - British magazine for digital art published my Earth Map illustration.

Digital Art Masters 3 Book - 2008 - [SEE PAGES] - It was you published and I wrote an article about process of creating the illustration

3DArtist MAGAZINE - Issue 07 - 2009 - [SEE PAGES] - World Above image was published

3DArtist MAGAZINE - Issue 14 - 2010 - [SEE PAGES] - Force Of Nature image was published

3DArtist MAGAZINE - Issue 17 - 2010 - [SEE PAGES] - Running Away image was published

3DArtist MAGAZINE - Issue 22 - 2010 - [SEE PAGES] - published article about color theory, I wrote 1/3 of the article

Digital Art Masters 6 Book - 2011 - [SEE PAGES] - Running away image was published and I wrote an article about process of creating the illustration

3DArtist MAGAZINE - Issue 24 - 2011 - [SEE PAGES] - Small interview was published in the inspiration corner

3DWorld MAGAZINE - Issue 154 - 2012 - [SEE PAGES] - Tesla image was published

Pixel (Czech MAGAZINE) - Issue 184 - 2012 - [SEE COVER] - Tesla image was published as cover

3D Creative MAGAZINE - Issue 079 March - 2012 - [SEE PAGES] - Tesla image published inside magazine

3DArtist MAGAZINE - Issue 40 - 2012 - [SEE PAGES] - Tesla selected as "Picture of the Month"

3DArtist MAGAZINE - Issue 41 - 2012 - [SEE PAGES] - Making of Tesla published ... it focuses mostly on development of shading and lighting

Digital Art Masters 7 Book - 2012 - [SEE PAGES] - Tesla image was published as introduction to Environments section

EXPOSE 10 Book - 2012 - [LINK] - It Was You, Fall and Tesla were published in 2012 edition of Expose book

InCG Magazine - Taiwan - 2012 - [LINK] - Consumed was published in Taiwan magazine for Computer Graphics

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