TIGAER-DESIGN.COM_.v5 – Digital Art by Christian Hecker

Towers Of Solaria

This one was an exercise with colours and composition. I kitbashed with some assets I created for previous projects and just was having fun with composition and trying something new. I tend to push the details in my work to the max and that’s not always a good thing. So here I tried something more ‘calm’… for the lack of a better word. A lot of negative space and less detail than usual. Kind of an oldschool scifi book cover look. Inspiration here was work by Pascal Blanché and Nicolas “Sparth” Bouvier.

4457×6848 – Vue – Photoshop – Lightroom

Part of the FREESTYLE 2 exhibit by the AURORA Artgroup

The artwork on:
Deviantart – Artstation – CGSociety

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Faces Of An Unknown Huntress

Every once in a while I’m having fun trying myself on a digital portrait shooting. Of course DAZStudio is a good tool for that. Also took this piece to learn more about it. The picture itself is a companion piece to my “Unknown Huntress” series. A try in making the characters in my artworks a little more personal. It’s a series that will definitely be continued in the future. Having too much fun with it.

5000×3333 – DAZStudio – Photoshop – Lightroom

The artwork on:
Deviantart – Artstation – CGSociety

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Claim New Worlds II

Haven’t tackled a more complex scene in a while. This one turned out to be one. Could it be one of my benchmark projects like Gates To Elysium or the Claim New Worlds 1? I guess so. Tested some technical limits and revisited ideas I had in the last 2 years. When the environment was done I knew I needed some ships landing there. Explorers. I always wanted to incorporate vehicles created by more talented (at least in that department) people. My vehicles are mostly kitbashed without thinking about deeper design elements. Good that I know a few people! First I contacted Christian Grajewski. Following him on Facebook over the years exposed me to some of his vehicle designs and I always very much liked what I saw. He was my first choice. I asked him and he agreed that I could use his Sandpiper Ship/Glider design. He provided me with the model and textures I placed the ships in the scene. That made the scene’s composition balance fall apart a little. After some input I got from him and others I had to rearrange some elements of the scene for better readability. Time well spent. Ultimately we’re both happy how the scene turned out and hope you do like it too!

Find Project Aurora Here.

7250×3919 – Vue – Xenodream – Photoshop – Lightroom

The artwork on:
Deviantart – Artstation – CGSociety

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I’ve Seen Things

As part of the PURPLE release of Aurora’s latest web exhibit, I decided for another neat little digital photoshoot. Playing and learning new things. Cyberpunk is rather popular right now. Despite CDPR’s failed Cyberpunk 2077 release. However, I used the inspiration I got from the game (haven’t played it yet though) and its look and decided to try myself on something I wanted to do for a while now. Plain DAZ Studio and its IRay renderer with Photoshop. The base assets I used were modified quite a bit to achieve the look I had in mind. A lot of tweaking went into the textures. All of the adjustments worked out really nice and I’m overall fairly happy with the results.

Find Project Aurora Here.

6000×3708 – DAZ Studio – Photoshop – Lightroom

The artwork on:
Deviantart – Artstation – CGSociety

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Com-cept 38

Just for fun quickie piece I did a while ago. Finished it up. Literally no story here for this. Just a vista view over a scifi city. Last piece for 2020… what a year.

3000×1370 – Vue – Photoshop – Lightroom

The artwork on:
Deviantart – Artstation – CGSociety

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White Rose

Here we have a try to digitally mimic a photoshoot with a model. How things sometimes go there was a big portion of luck involved. That actually goes for photoshoots as well. You wait for that moment that makes everything go ‘click’ and here it was due to a glitch in the cloth simulation, where I ended up with a so called ‘explosion’. Usually a very undersireable effect. But for this one it worked so amazingly good (it immediately reminded my of that famous Marilyn Monroe skirt photo) that I continued working with it. This also gave me the opportunity to learn more about the IRay renderer in DAZ Studio. After rendering the scene via DAZ Studio’s IRay I moved the material into Photoshop for fixes and overpaints. Naturally the ‘exploded’ dress didn’t look perfect in all places. So there were some fixes and additional renders needed here and there. I’m very happy with the unexpected and overall beautiful result here. This shooting went well! =)

8472×5236 – DAZ Studio – Photoshop – Lightroom

The artwork on:
Deviantart – Artstation – CGSociety

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Dance With Me

A rather old companion piece to my Calista Square artwork. Decided to have a little more fun with the scene I’ve put together since a lot of work went into creating the scene. So basically a just for fun little thing. Two flyers having fun and performing kind of a dance in the sky. If I would live in that world and own an air/spacecraft like this… I would enjoy the hell out of it.

6500×3306 – Vue – Photoshop – Lightroom

The artwork on:
Deviantart – Artstation – CGSociety

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Chill Your Base II

I liked that room I created for my “Chill Your Base” piece so much that I decided to do another scene with it. Contrary to the nature background of the first scene I wanted to settle the new scene in a city environment above the clouds. A futuristic penthouse of dreams. Then a new topic/theme for the Aurora artgroup came up and I decided to submit it. Not before I did additional fine tuning to a number of elements. Overall I’m fairly happy with the result.

8000×3652 – Vue – Photoshop – Lightroom – World Machine – Cinema 4d – DAZ Studio

Part of the AURORA: GREEN exhibit

The artwork on:
Deviantart – Artstation – CGSociety

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The Luminarium & The Cosmosys Collective and others joined forces to invite you to a trip and boost your imagination and inspiration! Members of the various artgroups sat down and decided to do a crossover artgroup… which by now should be seen as a fully formed standalone group. Represented is art created with all kinds of techniques within all kinds of fields. Again a ‘healthy variety’… how I would call it. We also got some new members which is even cooler! I’m included with three pieces. The exhibit has the extension GREEN. At first I was worried that Green isn’t exactly my colour. I soon found out that it wasn’t a big deal at all. So the artworks have a main overall colour theme going on. Still, overall the exhibit can be considered freestyle. We’ve got some great results and so I want to thank everyone involved and especially the people who did the organisational stuff in the background!

Go check it out and sharing is caring!

Project Aurora Project Aurora Website
The Exhibit on Behance

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