SciFi & Fantasy Artwork by Pierre Cusa

Great start on your gallery Pierre! Like it a lot ^_^

Pierre Cusa replies: "thanxie! ^^"

Very nice gallerY. Great start indeed. ^__^

Extremely intreaguing and beautiful pictures you have! Ok, please bear with me as I display my amazing talents of computer ignorance...
I know nothing about computer art like this and making 3D images, so perhaps you could tell me just how much of these pictures you actually MADE, (as in took a drawing tool and free-handed it, or COLORED, as in took a paint tool, chose the color you thought was best in that certain shade or tint, and painstakingly blended them all together) and how much of your pictures are done by the computer program (the curvey click-and-drag line tool, and other buttons which I don't know if they exist but it seems probable that they do, like telling the computor exactly WHERE the light is coming from and then it would put in the proper highlights in the proper places and matching the highlights with the proper textures, which are also maybe programmed into the program so you wouldn't have to do it by hand.)
I'm not asking these questions to degrade your skills. I'm asking because I don't know a dang thing about it and I just can't believe that any human hand could so perfectly capture the depth, the shading, the highlights, of pictures like the Glassman, which I particularly liked. Anyway, all of these pictures show incredible skill and I hope you keep up your art!

Pierre Cusa replies: "You are very right to ask this! Like other art techniques, 3d is a tool that, once mastered, leaves nothing between your imagination and the final image. The problem with 3d is that many people (me in my beginnings for ex.) let themselves be mastered by the tool instead of them mastering the tool: that will make images that have (almost) been completely created by the 3D program, and not by them, and their imagination! For ex, programs like BRYCE and POSER almost force you to make and images the way THEY want it. BUT it's easy to make and it's beautiful! That's not really "art", is it? So I moved on to another kind of 3d program, a real artist's tool : one like "maya", "rhino3d", (i think)"3dstudio", or, my personnal choice: Lightwave. So what makes these better? with these you have to do everything yourself. You "model" everything (that is like making a clay sculpture of a scene, except with virtual tools); and then you "texture" the objects you modeled, using photoshop for ex.(that is the equivalent of painting your sculptures with a virtual palette and tools). And then you put everything together in your scene and you handle the camera and lighting, doing many many tries until you create the ambience you wanted. So, sorry to decieve you, but the glassman was more like an "interesting experiment"! I'm about to upload some real images now, and i'm working on a face model... the kind of thing that shows if you're any good. I hope you understand 3d a lil better now.. Hey! you should try! ^^"