Destiny Man

This is my tribute to the mysterious world of remote viewing. Little is known about people with this ability or their endeavours. Remote viewers have been among us since ancient times; their ability has been used by men for such things as predicting a good hunt in pre-historic times (shamans) to locate spies during the cold war (psychic spies of the CIA).

There are many theories about how this people acquire this amazing skill: some say it's a natural gift, other have suggested it's something you can actually train and develop; that in fact any of us have the ability in our frontal lobe; it's just a matter of exercise. It has been even suggested you can awake remote viewing abilities with hallucinogens such as "Haiawaska" or "San Pedro" like Shamans have been doing for millennia.

It is a subject I find extremely interesting and I can't have enough of it... If you're interested, you can start by reading "Supernatural" by Graham Hancock.

I re-made this painting almost from scratch. I was never really satisfied with the original result.

cheers!

The Anunnaki

Produced for the british band Parramon, "Dead People" is a concept album of mythic proportions. It tells the story of how The Anunnaki, a tyrannic race of reptilians from another planet, dominated the human race in a remote past. They were looked up as gods of course and pyramids were builded for them. There are many versions and theories about why they came; precious minerals, fuel, genetic experiments, even human flesh!   Look for it in the History Channel series "Ancient Aliens".

This is by far one of the most difficult and detailed digital painting I've ever made. I took me about five days just to compose and paint everything. But I previously spent about a week doing research in order to get everything right in it; destroyed buildings, symbolisms, ancient writing, dead trees and toombstones.

There are many symbolisms in this work... lets see how many you are able to spot.

made in 5 days in Photoshop.

cheers!




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Another Interview (in spanish)

Here's another interview by the people from "Heavy Shit", a webzine about metal music.   It's in spanish though, so go nuts with the google language tool!  lol.

CLICK HERE FOR INTERVIEW

 

Cheers everyone!

Matte Painting: "Crater"

A very simple but interesting matte painting I made for a teaser by Altair Films.

I did some research for this in order to get crater right.  I looked to a lot of pictures of ancient meteor impacts in the web.  I think the end result is somewhat cientifically accurate.  =)

what a geek I am!

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Robots and Empire

Who has read Isaac Asimov??? I just love his epic and monumental stories. Foundation, The Robots of Dawn, I Robot... all of them, milestones of my adolescence.

This image is my tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi writers of the XX Century.

"...and the artificial humanoid keeps scouting the massive abandoned metropolis for any sign of human life, like he was programmed to do. He of course, won't find any... and even though he has some precarious notion of this in his positronic brain; he will, nonetheless, keep perfoming his task until a human master change his programming... if this ever happen."

Additionally,  I always wanted to create retro-futuristic buildings in Art Deco style; I just love it. I was just waiting for the right project to do it. I gave to the character a rugged metal texture; like he was cast in rough iron.

This was commissioned by an american record label to be a cover art for Ekotren.
I proposed 5 sketches for this job and they choose this one.  I was told I had some freedom to intepret the working title as it was very vague, but the band and record label ultimatelly decided the image fitted better the concept without the character, which I completelly understand; it creates questions about the concept that would probably depart from the original title ("the dead of night"). Besides, the Art Deco structures I created for this were cool enough to catch the eye by themselves.

Each building took about 8 hours to paint. I recycled the starry sky from a previous work.

Made in 3 days in Adobe Photoshop and a Wacom Intuos3




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Serial Killer

Cover art for Polish band Made of Hate. One thing I love about my work is the fact that I almost never know where my clients are going to lead me. Subjects and concepts are as different as you can get! One day I'm making this oniric landscape and a psycho killer's lair the next.

The band's working concept was: "please make a cross between Dexter and Hostel".  I believe we achieved just that.

"Pathogen" take us inside the mind of a seriously disturbed man; a serial killer. He likes to suffocate and slowly torture his victims in a very elaborate ritual-like procedure. He's a loner with high IQ. He lives in a dark and isolated place of course... a place where he can work undisturbed in his "pieces"

I made it, and it still gives me the creeps! XD

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Circle II Circle - "Concecuence of Power" Concept Paintings

A digital painting series entitled "Concecuence of Power". Produced for a concept album of american band Circe II Circe. A storyline by singer Zak Stevens (ex-Savatage).

The story is set in the desert terrain along the border space that separates the U.S. and Mexico... All the story action occurs across the towns, cities, and territory along the border of Mexico and three U.S. states; California, Arizona, and New Mexico. It's about a 20 year old boy who is recruited by a drug cartel to become a hitman. Eventually he and his parter/lover Jessica end up in the crossfire of a war between corrupted goverment officials and the cartels

I envisioned the whole series as a Michael Mann movie.

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Interview

A very interesting interview posted by StampMagazine.  Thanks to Jason for that!  

CLICK HERE FOR INTERVIEW

 

Cheers!

 

Matte Painting: "The Unreturned"

Santiago City at the sea floor in a not so distant future.  A matte painting for the sci-fi film "The Unreturned".

info:
"The Unreturned" (short sci-fi film) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geV868Z-9mU)
Directed by Raul Pinto
Produced by Luis Saavedra
Music by Ivo Pirovich (www.myspace.com/ivopirovich)
Altair Films (www.altairfilms.cl)

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ESP Guitar Design

Guitar Design for private collector

This is one of those cool jobs that you won't get very often... a prototype guitar design. I aproached the micro-universe of life itself with cosmic proportions.

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