http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/profile Copyright 2000-2008 GFXartist network / Brothersinart http://www.gfxartist.com http://images.gfxartist.com/gfx/GFXartist_64.png support@gfxartist.com en-us GFXartist Engine 1.0 0 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:38:16 EST andreasrocha Painting / Nature Recently I did a couple of speedpaintings inspired by a photo of Mount McKinley at sunrise. I took one of those speedies and developed it into a matte painting. It took me about 3 days to complete. The foreground could still use some work, but you just get to a point where you just want to finish... http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/170424 andreasrocha Painting / Architecture This last work was a collaboration with amazing photographer Yves Oliver Callewaert (http://www.yvesoliverphoto.com). It all started from one of his photos, which you can see below and from there it was an experimentation to expand the canvas and come up with some post apocalyptic story. Everyone... http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/167430 andreasrocha Painting / Figure This time I tried something different, which I hadn't done before. I took a friend's drawing and turned it into a painting. His name is Luís Miguel Santos and he has some great work over at: http://luis-m.deviantart.com/ Go check it out! http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/164408 andreasrocha Painting / Architecture http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/162292 andreasrocha Painting / Architecture This image is part of the Infinite OZ experience - "An artistic collaboration that brings to life the world of the Sci-Fi miniseries event, Tin Man." It is best understood by visiting the "experience" itself at: http://www.scifi.com/tinman/oz/ The... http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/157008 andreasrocha Painting / Technology This image portrays an exodus of a civilization. Could be ours someday... There is a feeling of peace and the sunset represents hope of a new beginning. Regarding the spaceships, there is an analogy with fish both in their design and in the way they are grouped together as in a school of fish.... http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/154219 andreasrocha Painting / Figure I recently finished this painting. It was made for the last album of Spanish Thrash Metal band "Angelus Apatrida" (http://www.angelusapatrida.com). It was done in Photoshop and Painter and took me several days to complete. http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/152754 andreasrocha Painting / Nature This painting was inspired by a scene in the movie “The Omen” (original version), where Gregory Peck goes to a cemetery to uncover his son’s past. I really love this scene because of the fantastic set they built and the mood they achieved. There is just something about 70s/80s horror movies, like... http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/151089 andreasrocha Painting / Nature This painting started as something completely different. I was aiming for a 60s look sci-fi waste with UFOs in a distant planet. It ended up in an African fantasy setting displaying a tribe leaving its home (to hunt, probably). I was inspired by one of Rodney Matthews paintings called... http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/150604 andreasrocha Painting / Nature This painting represents a personal challenge to do a matte painting without the use of photos as painting material. However, I used many photos for reference, though. All the brushes were painted from scratch, too, without any photos. I hoped to achieve a more painterly look like this. It was... http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/149653 andreasrocha Painting / Architecture Even if wars are terrible, there is just something that draws me to them visually, probably because I haven't felt one up close. Nonetheless, I wanted to play with light, scale and human relations...and this is what I came up with. Something I find curious, is that I have found several... http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/135857 andreasrocha Painting / Figure Inspired by the little angelic figures that sometimes appear on fountains. However, I wanted to add a little twist and make it a bit more macabre. It took me about 20 hours to complete with Photoshop and Painter. http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/134815 andreasrocha Painting / Architecture Matte painting inspired by my hometown, Lisbon. My love for the city and walking through its streets made me want to paint this unique environment of an urban oasis, a place of rest in the middle of our contemporary hasty kind of life. Here is the initial photo: Original Photo http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/121287 andreasrocha Painting / Nature I was inspired to do this one after a morning walk through one of Lisbon's parks, where I saw a tree that looked just like a hand ready to grab something. My idea here was to go for the classic fairy tale look where everything seems "nice" at first glance, but is not quite... http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/78247 andreasrocha Painting / Uncategorized This was my CGTalk 2D Grand Space Opera entry. Please check out the large version, as I think that this small one lost a lot of details. Accompanying text: "The Last Days That Will Never Be Not far from daily life in an immense place, millions of human beings live sheltered... http://andreasrocha.gfxartist.com/artworks/76766