November 02, 2010 from abduzeedo's blog
A few days ago I was looking for some 3D artworks, just for inspiration, and I came across this 3D artist from Siberian town Novosibirsk, Russia, called Denis Tolkishevsk. I was totally blown away with the quality and realism of some of his 3D pieces that I had to share that on Abduzeedo. Most of his works is done in 3ds Max, Vray and Photoshop.
For more information about Denis Tolkishevsky at we highly recommend that you visit his Web site and check out more of his works at http://to3d.ru/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1. There's also a super cool making of/tutorial of one of his artworks, the one called DragONtFLY, which has gotten 5 awards from Russian and English CG Portals. You
"I’ve studied 3D graphics on my own, using books and lessons downloaded from Internet as a basis. I haven’t been through any courses, besides I don’t have any artistic education... I remember I saw 3D Max for the first time in the university. A friend of mine showed it to me. It seemed to be really complicated thing at that time, so many buttons, menus, and commands..."
If you want to learn more about Denis, there's this great interview with him over at http://www.templates.com/blog/interview-with-3d-artist-denis-tolkishevsk...
