Maciej Kuciara Art

hardsurface

2012-10-04T01:27:00.002+02:00

While on venture of learning zbrush, I decided to take a bite of hardsurface. I gotta admit, that at some point of creation process focus on technicalities took over the attention of general design... I found this as a good lession taken for future projects tho.
Anyway, I HIGHLY recommend looking at zbrush hardsurface DVDs with Mike Jensen as well as amazing sketches from Mike Nash - not only educational to the max, but also a huge inspiration boost!

zbrush doodles

2012-09-27T14:17:00.001+02:00

After months of heavy labor with many cool projects I finally freed up some time for personal stuff.. and I thought it's about time to get up to with 3d.. I recently picked up modo and already used it in some production work, now it's time for zbrush!
These are my babysteps after few days of intensive gnomon dvd's marathon. I came to realize going zbrush/modo is totally unlike anything i've done in concept art field so far. Very refreshing, yet extremly challenging. Alot of first time mistakes on these designs, especially anatomy-wise. Let's see where it gets me :)

DAM v7

2012-05-24T17:21:00.001+02:00

Hi folks! I've recently written a workshop to upcoming 7th edition of Digital Art Masters that's coming out very soon! Sneak peak card shot above with my painting above.

http://shop.3dtotal.com/books/3dtotalpublishing/digital-art-masters-volume-7.html

hardkor44

2012-02-01T06:32:00.004+01:00

Two concepts I've done in 2010 as previs for Tomek Baginski's (Platige Image) film Hardkor44. Workload was hitting me hard on last few months.. I hope soon enough I'll find enough time to get some personal paintings going.

The Last of Us

2011-12-12T22:44:00.002+01:00

After almost 1,5 year being here at Naughty Dog, I can finally proudly present the project I've been working on this entire time. 'The Last of Us'.

It's been a blast so far! Working with Bruce Straley (Game Director) and Neil Druckmann (Creative Director) is by far best professional experience I had in my entire career.

Take a look at teaser trailer that was shown for the first time on VGA's 2011 last Saturday. And below, two of many concept artworks I've done for the project.

Art.Fair 2011

2011-11-05T22:03:00.004+01:00

Some of my artworks were displayed on Cologne Air.Fair 2011 gallery. You can find more about this event under links below.

Photo copyright (c) Boris Beuer.

http://www.candb.com/

http://www.blooom.de/

Pegasus

2011-10-07T09:18:00.003+02:00

I should have uploaded this image a while ago, better late than never.

weekend fun continued

2011-08-15T10:48:00.001+02:00

two sketches done over the weekend. tried to avoid any texture use this time.

2d artist - interview

2011-08-09T03:09:00.000+02:00

I've been interviewed by 2DArtist magazine and you can find entire article with few of my works in their latest issue. Check it out!

http://www.2dartistmag.com/latest.html

2011-08-06T18:56:00.001+02:00

Weekend fun.. almost! I've been working on that piece throughout entire week actually, simply because of lack of time. Just half an hour here and there. Filling up portfolio variety.

Edit: more weekend fun.. on a contrary to photo-texture usage, something painted entirely from scratch.

push

2011-06-28T10:55:00.000+02:00

New image I worked on in a free time with quite some long breaks due to work overload. I generally wanted to get into mild sci-fi genre with one foot and see if the ground underneath is stable enough to continue venture into genre I havn't touch for a while.
Done this image in a similar way as Dark riders and gladiator concepts. Trying to keep total hours count down to 1 full working day.
Enjoy and I hope you'll like it!

new webpage is up!

2011-06-22T02:01:00.003+02:00

I slightly updated and refreshed the look of my website. Added few works that I didn't show before as well. Hope you'll all like it!

http://www.maciejkuciara.com

2011-06-18T04:31:00.004+02:00

I haven't been bosting for a while, since last couple of months I was quite quite busy... So, once i found just a bit free time I decided to dig out one of older sketches (from late 2010) and finish it up a bit. Little Avatar'esque shot in same detail style as few other concepts I posted a while ago (dark riders, gladtiator vs dragon,etc).

Hopefully, I will be able to show some more fresh stuff soon and I really wish I could get those extra few hours to get back to do some sketches. Maybe soon as well, right now gearing up to get back to the grinder :) Busy busy busy... and fun!

Crysis 2 concepts - repost

2011-05-13T19:35:00.003+02:00

Re-posting Crysis 2 concept artwork I've done in 2009/2010 when at Crytek. Apparently due to security updates blogger was deleting everything posted from wed 11 onwards >.>

ImagineFX 69 continuing

2011-04-22T20:26:00.002+02:00

Here's the image itself from the video tutorial I did for ImagineFX, issue 69.

Imagine FX

2011-04-10T22:38:00.001+02:00

I did 2 video tutorials for ImagineFX recently. Both are 1 issue apart (68 and 69). Check them out!

Fat-legged mech

2011-03-26T09:02:00.002+01:00

Playing around with lighting, phototextures and brushes.

Crysis 2 is out!

2011-03-22T19:47:00.005+01:00

It's a great feeling to see a project I've been working on at Crytek to come out. I got to give kudos to art team for pulling of one of the most amazing graphics in computer gaming up to date and to their art director and friend of mine Magnus Larbrant for pushing the style into the new level of Crytek games.

Althou my contribution to the project was minor compared to all the hard work that have been put by the team since a year I left the studio, it is still a great relief and a moment of joy to see all the pieces coming together in the final product and to see how well it has been received by the critics so far:

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/115/1156446p1.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-crysis-2/712015?type=flv

Great reviews! And I hope for great sales for old friends at Crytek.

Back to the NDI kennel tho, for even more awesome stuff to come !

Stay Strong

2011-03-17T10:02:00.003+01:00

I made this image as a my modest word of courage for Japan and their current dramatic situation. Stay strong.

Snow buggy

2011-03-14T09:03:00.002+01:00

More practice with same technique.

2011-03-12T10:09:00.001+01:00

Same technique as previous images.

Gorilla Artbook vol.1

2011-03-12T00:14:00.004+01:00

Gorilla Artfare community is about to get it's first own artbook and I'm really proud to be part of it. The book has 300 pages, featuring 70+ awesome artists from all around the world.

Release date: April 14th, 2011

More info at:

http://www.cfsl-ink.com/en/products/gorilla-artbook

LA mountains

2011-03-09T10:37:00.001+01:00

... continuing previous exercise with references. I think sometime soon I'll grow confident enough to drag my laptop outside and do some outdoor paintings finally.

Custom Shapes v2.0

2011-03-08T08:56:00.005+01:00

One more exercise with custom shapes as previously, althou this time I tried to be more loose with shapes. Everything is basically painted with flat colors and shading is done via gradient tool only. I start to like this painting style alot and I wouldn't get away without mentioning how much of an influence I'm taking from latest Robh's and Neil Ross paintings!

Custom Shapes

2011-03-04T09:34:00.003+01:00

Took a bit more time to practice painting with simple shapes and sharp-shaped brushes, custom selections and gradients. Unlike with previous exercise, this time I took a step into more triangular forms.

+ bonus step-by-step to the mountain pic.