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

And another try with HDR and my macro series. This time i really dig the focus that came out rather cool here. Hope you dig it as much as i do!

Captured Beauty XLII

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Marea here is made with help of HDR photography techniques. To get the most colour out of every pixel! Really like the underwater like result.

Captured Beauty XLIV

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THE EXPEDITION

Vue is your friend! When you’re not exactly the most talented painter then Vue really helps you to create a base for your idea. The weird rock formations/mountains were quickly modelled in C4d and imported to Vue. Ecosystems added a plantlife quickly and kaboom… it’s rendered. Then the fun can happen in Photoshop. This painting is, again, some sort of training piece. Basically i wanted to create a strangely familiar, yet exotic, looking place. It’s also a different colorpalette. Surely a nice addition to my portfolio. When you check the plate (link beneath the description) you will notice how much work was done in Photoshop. Basically i used digital painting to extend different elements and got me some good photo textures to add the level of detail i wanted. The ships were added late in the process and are completely painting. Now i would love to explore this planet with one of those ships!

Hope you enjoy this world as much as i do!

intuos3 – 10hrs – 3500px wide – photoshop – vue

Vue Plate

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Here we basically have a try of myself creating a fractal animation with apophysis. I used after effects to tweak the animation as well as adding a few fx to it. So i used this shorty to play around a bit in after effects. Learning something more about the effects it has to offer. It’s not the result i was looking for but i’ll get there sooner or later. I find this fractal animation stuff very interesting somehow.

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Here we have a new feature that comes with Photoshop CS4. Via an external program called Adobe Configurator you can create own palettes/panels for use within Photoshop. That’s what i did a while ago. My panel basically consists of menu commands that i frequently use and don’t want to move through half of Photoshop to get to them. It took a bit to get used to it but after a while i found it very handy and use it quite often now. So this panel is the perfect setup for my way to work. If you’re interested in checking it out… go ahead and play with it! =)

Version 1.2 (install notes are in the zip)

*This panel only works for Photoshop CS4!

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While checking through some of my paintings i realize how much better my new screen is. I see so much more things and details! Therefore i updated my ‘legacy‘ painting and its contents on my site. Everything else will follow. And just in case you’re wondering what screen i’m using… it’s an HP LP2475w. My recommendation for that one.

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THE GATES

And another starwars inspired try in cityscape environment design. No big story for this one. Just fiddled around with vue and photoshop – just for fun. That’s why the basic look of it is kinda dirty and gritty… concept arty. I kinda like the result that offers a nice depth to the eye. Technically i was messing around with texures and brushes in photoshop. The difference in this painting basically is the perspective that hopefully makes the viewer feel as if we’re flying into the city. So… i hope you enjoy the trip. :)

intuos3 – 8hrs – 3000px wide – photoshop – vue

Vue Plate

The artwork on:
Deviantart – Artstation – Drawcrowd – CGSociety

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HRT

This one was created on one evening, just for fun. I tested the performance of my machine in apophysis and fiddled around with the results in photoshop. What i had on my screen in the end looked kinda cool so i thought i’d create a spontaneus wallpaper pack. =) It contains all the important sizes from 800×600 to 1920×1200… 6 digfferent sizes. So there should be a fitting one for everybody!

Have Fun!

Windows 7 ‘HRT’ Theme Pack -> Here – Just download and doubleclick to install – if you have any additional questions… just let me know!

All pictures in this Theme Pack are copyrighted by tigaer-design.com and may not used or reproduced without permission. Thank you very much.

A colleague from deviantart kindly requested an interview with my person for his online art forum. So we met up in msn yesterday and made the interview. It was fun! Feel free to head over there for an interesting read.

The Interview

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VAN DIEMEN’S RETREAT

Here we have the first painting i did on my new machine. I had the actual cave background plate render on my disk for a while now and used this project to see what the new machine can do. I’m pretty happy with the results i got from this project. Computer speed wise as well as painting result wise. I really used Vue a lot here to render out different elements for the background and foreground. The crystals, ships and trees were implemented with help of multipass rendering. Due to the speed of my new machine i finished the painting in a very good time.

This is a painting that, after lots of storyless pieces, has a story again. Some of you might know that U2 song ‘Van Diemen’s Land’. One of the most beautiful songs ever btw. In fact i listened to it when i was looking for a painting title. I always liked that name ‘Van Diemen’ and used it here. Now lets say this base we see here is some sort of hidden pirate base. Hidden within some sort of planetoid/super asteroid.

The Story

A rock large enough to develop some sort of atmosphere where plants can grow. But only on the inside caves of the asteroid. On the surface you’ll find plain death. Downcrashing asteroids. Deadly subeams. Extreme temperatures. Due to a special magnetic field the base cannot be spotted. You can only get there with the right coordinates! The base was once founded by a space pirate legend named (you guess it) Van Diemen. After one of his biggest coups he had to flee before a huge fleet that tried to hunt him down. His last chance was to hide in an asteroid field! He and his men made the brave decision to hide within an immense large weird splitted/cracked open rock, carefully maneuvering his massive ship, while the fleet searched everything for him. Soon he started to wonder why they did not pick up the energy signature of his ship and found out about the specialty of this place. He started to make plans… to build a hideout! That was 200 years ago. Now this place became a massive outpost for all sorts civilizations. The place now is named after its founder but it’s no more a place for criminals and other scum of the universe. It’s still very tricky to find this base and even with automated landing procedures there happen accidents every now and then. So when you plan your trip there… better pay some extra for a good ship and an even better captain!

4800px wide – photoshop – vue – intuos3

Plate can be found here.

Print detail can be found here (Large file).

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