So after very nice weekend spent in Prague, full of great lectures, so many old friends and crazy after parties, Maxcon 2008 is over. It was really great to be there and to be part of it. You can watch my lecture online on duber.tv only in Slovak language, but some parts are easy to understand just from visual part. So what to say… See you next year!

On July 5-6th 2008 there will be 4th year of conference about 3dsmax and computer graphics called MAXCON 2008. As previous years also this year conference will be settled in Prague. I’d like to inform you that once again I’ll be one of the speakers. I’ll be talking about my recent personal project Buggy series

After several years of co-operation, dead matches and capturing flags on many various projects we’ve finally decided to join into one team. The all new NoEmotion.

I’ve recently finished my latest personal project. It is one of those bigger and I started to work on it in January 2008. It was shortly after I’ve seen Mad Max trilogy again. I love those fallout vehicles in the movie and I remember like I loved them when I was just a kid so I’ve decided to make at least my own one. I spent on it parts of my free time (about two to three weeks) during 4 months.

I spent over 5 weeks at Blur studio in Los Angeles working on commercial directed by David Fincher. Project supervisor was Kevin Margo from Blur. I worked together with Peter Sanitra. Our task was basically everything starting from modeling, lighting, rendering, rotoscoping to compositing. We did computer generated branches on the trees, flying cars, sparks, existing logos replacements, motion blur reconstruction, basically everything what is flying in the air. We used 3dsmax and Vray for 3d job and Fusion 5 for compositing. Tracking was done in SynthEyes by Matt Merkovich. We had a great time in LA. Thanks to all at Blur, its a great place!
So finally commercial is online so I’m proud to show it, click here to watch.

I’ve been interviewed by 3DCreative Magazine. Here you can download ‘lite’ version of the March 2008 3DCreative Magazine issue.

So again I’m on my own… and if you are interested about my services just send me a line. Don’t forget to check my 2006 demoreel here if you haven’t seen it already.

Let me say all those boring useless and cliché words… “Happy new year”

I’m proud to present my latest personal project I called Hektor. Enjoy it!

As it was officially presented at Siggraph 2007 Autodesk user group meeting I’m happy to let you know that I’ve been chosen as one of the Autodesk 3dsmax Masters for this year. I’m really honored and I’d like to say one big ‘Thank you’ to all of the people who gave me vote. I take this as really big stimulation and responsibility for my upcoming professional and personal projects. Here is the link for video at youtube.

My firstborn… His name is Adam. Welcome here Adam… to this strange world full of strange people…

I was interviewed at raph.com. You can read a bit about me and my find some interesting information about my work.

I’m happy that after months of working on a lot of professional projects eating all of my lifetime I found some time and I started, worked and I finished next personal artwork again. I call it “What took you so long?!” and it is environment inspired by one of Pragues districts where I’m living and working now.
Name of the street on the plank is kind of ironic “Osloboditelov” which is in Slovak language and it means in English “Liberators”. Picture is dedicated to my wife and my colleagues from imagesFX.

I’m proud to announce that I’ve been nominated as an Autodesk 3ds Max Master in this year’s Autodesk Master Awards. All nominees are great artists from around the world and it’s a big honor to be there with them, to be one of them. Good luck to everyone.

I wrote short making of Sunrise of the 80’s. Tutorial is hosted on Autodesks Area and so registration is required. Here is the link.

After one year working at 263films s.p.a in Milan I’m moving to Prague to join ImagesFX studio of my friend Jan Rybar. Together with Peter Sanitra we will provide our high quality standart services. If you are interested in our services don’t hesitate to write us.

After the end of the year 2006, I had more free time to spend than usual so I started to work on my new personal project. I call it “Sunrise of the 80’s”. It took me about 3 weeks of work, mainly during the nights and creative moments of the short winter days and long winter nights. In the beginning it was planned as night street scene but during one week of playing with lighting and testing I reached sunrise once again like in my previous work “Street of memories“. I hope that people who know these kind of housing estates sceneries will agree with me that they have a particular charm. Thanks to all folks for supporting and helping me with good critique and to my wife for patience. I hope you like it.
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So old year has gone and new one is here… “I don’t wish to anyone anything good”. Once I really said that huh. But it is not this case Happy new year to all.

I’ve just returned from Iran when I was on working holidays with my friend Peter Sanitra. After few days there I discovered that Iran is much better country then I thought and it is definitely better then media present us everyday. People are nice and friendly, youth is modern and chicken kebab rulez.
In photography section you can find several pictures from Iran.

My artwork Heritage is included in the gallery of 3dcreative mag November issue 015. There are lot of very good stuffs to read inside of it. Good work guys!

After more then one year I decided to change the look of my website and to buy new domain marekdenko.net. I’m using redesigned and edited wordpress template which is originally created by Tracy Ou aka Viitoria L.(dfCOM). After few days full of editing style sheet, preparing pictures and filling up this new homepage with meaningful holy text I’m exhausted! So welcome visitors and I hope you will spent more time here than I usually spent on other artists websites.