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

Some of you might know the ‘advanced photoshop’ magazine from the UK. Two months ago they started to produce a magazine version for the german area too. It’s something i waited for quite a while now. Finally a magazine that covers the digital imaging interests i have. In germany, so far, there were only the usual photography magazine (tons of them) and digital production magazines… mainly thought for super professionals and very expensive. Alright the adv. photoshop magazine isn’t a cheapy too, i admit that. But it’s much more my taste than the dull/uninspiring others.

Oh yes. Almost forgot. There’s a small feature and interview about me in the 2nd issue of the magazine. That was fun!

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This cute kitten is pretty much grown up now since the shot itself is very old. When i cleaned up my archive i found this one, almost forgotten, treasure. Isn’t she adorable?

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On deviantart journals i started to write some personal reviews of movies i had the pleasure to watch. No matter if new or older releases, dvd or big screen. I now decided to move that part onto my website, just for fun. Maybe there are some people interested in them. A few… almost… no one i guess. lol Whatever. I’m a movies fan and added a new category to the site where you can find my opinions of recently released movies. I hope the number of articles will grow over time. For now there are 8 reviews (and counting). Check it out if you’re interested.

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MISTRAL COAST

This project started as a commission and ended as a personal project. I had some wonderful photo plates i started to fiddle around with. Then the client jumped off and i continued on it myself. No big story behind it actually. Just another scene that i would love to witness with my own eyes… ‘for real’ so to say. I have had this ‘big alien monolith’ kind of theme in previous paintings too… and i guess it follows me. Let’s just say we colonize other planets and happen to find these huge structures. Scientists are trying to analyze them. Soon they find out that they’re some alien relic. They emit some sort of energy to the planet atmosphere. But what exactly is happening? It could end in a surprise…

Maybe a bit inspired by the mass effect game again. But it was more the opening sequence of wing commander III. There was this huge spaceship crashed into the sea and the name of the place was ‘mistral’. I always liked that name and the idea of a beach scene on another planet.

Technically i worked with digital matte painting techniques to get it done. I wanted to have a photoreal look for it. I did not do a photoreal painting in a while… so i wanted to have something done again. Stocks used for the beach, own photo material used for other elements. The monoliths and some vegetation done with vue. All combined in photoshop. I took myself some with this one so the work took place over a period of two months. Maybe 40hrs of work in it.

intuos3 – 40hrs – 5800px wide – photoshop – vue

Print Detail // Progress Viz

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Comcept 8

And another comcept piece. Did this a few days ago with a few touch ups today. Idea behind it is to visualize ‘scale’ and ‘movement’. Wanted it to look loose and leave the interpretation of shapes to the viewer. If you followed my uploading then you probably miss comcept7… it’s still in progress and a more complicated pic. Will follow later. =)

3100px wide – 5 hrs – vue – photoshop

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There are pictures you cannot ignore. They keep you busy and thinking. For me it’s my ‘back to the future’ painting. Last week i took myself, again, some time to refine a few smaller details. Wallpapers and everything have been updated. Aside from that i have some comcept pics ready and a bigger painting. A photorealistic painting… haven’t done one in quite a while. I really dig the painting and hope you guys will too. Stay Tuned!!!

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Windows 7 ‘Synchrotone’ 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.

Johne Cook from raygun revival magazine emailed me a few weeks ago for a short interview and the permission to use some of my paintings. I took myself some time to gather some info about the magazine and came to the conclusion that i really loved the idea/concept behind the magazine. Much like the ‘amazing stories’ magazines from the 50s and 60s this mag gives unknown science fiction and fantasy writers a plattform to publish their stories. Issue 46, beside the stories, also features some of my work and a short interview. Check it out if you are interested!

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Comcept 6

Fiddled around in vue for this one. Like all the com-cept pieces this is a pure just for fun painting. Nothing too detailed… just there to roughly nail the idea onto the digital canvas. I like the result here. I think i got some nice depth in into it.

Original Specs:

3760px wide – 7 hrs – vue – photoshop

Vue Plate

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Last weekend i had the pleasure to visit europe’s biggest game industry exhibition in leipzig. A friend of mine and i went there sunday, the last day of the exhibition. Therefor it wasn’t too crowded. Last and first time i went there was 2006… the saturday… and it was fullll of visitors. Not a bad thing but very exhausting in the end. A lot of big things to see there. From wow to call of duty 5. There was also a smaller area for digital art. Some familiar pieces i recognized from the expose books i’m in too. They also had some workshops about 3d stuff as well as some painting/2d matters. It was very interesting. Watched a matte painting workshop hosted by an internet buddy of mine. Nothing new to learn but interesting nonetheless! I also noticed more female visitors at the show. I guess the concept of the nintendo wii and ds are paying off with attracting non-hardcore gamer types to videogames. Overall i must say that the games become more and more like movies. The visual quality is pretty stunning… and will get much much better in the next years. No idea where it leads to. Well knowing that the games industry, worldwide, already makes more money than the movie industry.

So much for this!

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