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alexandru popescuPROJECTS | featured work
The Island Walktrough
A tropical island study I did during my free time this winter.Based on Vue renders. Check out the making of to see the entire process of creating this image.
ProTV Idents 2009
Our studio did the TV Idents for 2009 of the biggest TV station in Romania, PRO TV. I enjoyed the project a lot, because I got to do a lot of concept design work, as well as matte paintings and compositing.
CME Adventure Commercial
A high end commercial made for several TV stations in the CME group by Media Pro Magic.I worked on the design and also did some matte paintings and compositing work.
Dorna commercial
Dorna mineral water has a tradition of very good vfx commercials. We worked on their latest, creating a barren land that fills with vegetation as a woman moves through it. Take a look at some of the matte paintings I did for this project.
Sail city walktrough
My image “Sail City” was chosen to be included in the anual digital art album from Ballistic Publishing, and I was given a Master Award in the futurescapes category. Be sure to check out the book.
Contratimp 2
We had the chance to work on some very nice shots for the action TV movie, involving a full 3d cloud environment and a CG airplane. I did a couple of 2d matte paintings, 3d clouds systems in Vue and compositing on a couple of shots.
fire and ice
Finished work for the SCI FI Channel dragon movie, Fire and Ice. As Lead Matte Painter, I worked on more than 200 shots, involving set extensions, 2d, 2.5 and 3d matte paintings and two full 360 virtual sets.
shine a light
I worked on the last shot of the movie, where the camera is zooming out from street level on Broadway to 1 mile above Manhattan. I painted the streets of the island to use in radiosity lighting and also the final matte painting.
Atlantis Walktrough
Atlantis was my entry for the first matte painting challenge on CG Talk. I had a lot of fun working on it and on top of that, it actually won first place. You can find a good walkthrough article about how I created it here.
