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Odin - with his pair of ravens Huginn and Munnin - disguised as the "Wanderer" with long beard, hat and staff. I made the staff to look more like Odin's spear - Gungnir - and since Odin is related to the writing form (he discovered the runes) I thought it would be interesting to make the spear tip to look like a pointed nib.

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Thor, the god of thunder. There are many possibilities to depict Thor but it was important to include his three most important possessions: Jarngreipr (the Iron Gloves), Megingjord (the Power-Belt) and - of course! - the mighty hammer Mjollnir. Here, Thor is wearing a full wedding dress (with bridal head-dress) because it is from a scene of the "Theft of Mjollnir" tale. This is the moment when Thor recovers his hammer and tears his disguise revealing his true identity to Thrymr, the King of Giants. After that he gladly proceed to smash Thrymr's skull. And after that he killed Thrymr's sister. Oh, and he also destroyed Thrymr's soldiers. In fact, he killed everyone attending the wedding...]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:46:31 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/823160

Loki was... well... the trickiest to portrait. He has an interesting scarred lips (Loki had his lips stitched up once). Since he is an "outsider", always creating problems and provoking the other asgardian gods, I choose to put him in those strange clothes and in a totally non-dynamic pose (if compared with Odin and Thor). And the gesture of lifting his tunic and pissing on the floor, as if he's trying to ruin the "picture". He is a trickster, after all. Here you can see the "censored" version :0)]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:48:30 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/761802

With this illustration - Rampage - I was looking for a comic book feel, more specifically the mood of some old comic adventures. For the dinosaur I used a photo I took in the Museum of Science, in Boston. And for the brave little super-hero I decided to put him some goggle-like mask to invoke a science-fiction personality.]]> Sat, 09 May 2009 16:33:32 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/746774

I created this big illustration (a wall panel measuring 10 feet widht by 6,6 feet height) for a press bureau located in my town. It's a kind of fantasy/dream scene, and if you take a closer look you will notice that the characters are carring paper related products, such as brochures, calendars, paper bags, and so on...]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:08:56 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/746766

A man in boring office finds a little solace listening to a girl playing citar in busy city. I wanted to depict a moment of peace in the middle of urban chaos. Life in the big city can be so crazy sometimes and that's why I choose to depict the vehicles as those strange two-legged walkers (I call them "Rotocars") as they look like noisy and clumsy things to have around...]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:58:57 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/746759

I had a dream about huge mushroom-shaped vehicles and started to explore this idea. I almost dropped this concept until I realized what this vehicle could possibly be: A bus!]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:46:37 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/649990

The original concept was to render a kind of "Solar Sail Ship", a space ship able to use the solar wind to between planets. The bubble-cabins could be detachable so when the butterfly ship lands in a planet, it actually does it on the sea surface and the cabins could go off and move around like little submarines.

In the end, I decided to make the design of the boat more distinc (In my original sketches it look more like a cross between upsided down ship and xmas balls...). And the thought of a space ship survived after some fashion... Now the Butterfly Ship goes through a more fantasy, dream-like idea of the outer space: If it were the real space, the sails would have to be a lot more bigger!]]> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:33:05 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/561673

Here a man leaves his mates (and his known world) behind and decides to live with his darling, even knowing it's a mermaid! It's going to be a difficult relationship but hopefully things will work out... Sometimes you just have to take the risk to get the reward...

This is another illustration with a ship on it... A friend of mine said that this image is about getting married... Isn't that odd?

Corel Draw was used to create the figures and Photoshop to add colors and textures. ]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:52:07 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/553475

A sea voyage gone bad... Three lucky men manage to escape from the giant monster crazy breakfast! It will be a long journey back home....

In this illustration I was looking for a dinamic composition using few elements. I also wanted to experiment with some textures (here I used one of Von Glitschka's textures).

Like the previous illustrations, Corel Draw was used to create the image and Photoshop to put the colors and texture.]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:25:51 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/506343

Old memories usually carry an strange and mysterious feeling, almost like a dream, specially those memories from childhood. Here is a circus scene where the clown is not quite "normal"...!

I used Corel Draw and Photoshop to create this image. What it's different from previous illustrations - like Hey Taxi or Dream#15 - is that I used some transparency effects (to create those lights) in the vector drawing before I went to the next phase with Photoshop.]]> Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:40:51 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/424091

A lucky young man has just found the woman of his life... And also 14 copies of her!

I wanted to create a soft and romantic feel though the theme here is sci-fi related: cloning. It's not clear if the other 14 girls are really clones (Dolly style) or cyborgs (Ghost In The Shell style)... Anyway, I doubt that we will see human cloning in a near future and if someday we going to have a positive attitude (like the guy in this illustration has) toward creating copies (organic or mechanic) of a human being.

The style here is the same of previous works, like Lighthouse Battles, using vector drawing and a final touch with Photoshop.]]> Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:00:25 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/417180

I was looking for a some kind of chaotic scene to draw and I wanted to create a llustration inspired in images like Ben Hur's carriot race... Also, I had this tiltle in mind: "Vertical Racing"... Here we have those two gladiators/racers (The only way I could find to justify the term "Vertical Racing" was putting them riding on mechanical spiders... Originally, I wanted them to be grasshoppers ) in a violent collision...

The spider design was created with bikes in mind. They're spider-bikes so to speak... I imagine the race taking place in a complex of vertical tunnels made of web-like cables where the riders could run and beat each other for the pleasure of the audience...

ANNOUNCER: "Hummmm... Rider #5 is holding a Morning Star but Rider #99 seems to have lost his weapon (that's why he uses his own bike to block #5's way...?)...Or maybe Rider #99 is just a awful rider and Rider #5 is about to teach him to pay more attention on the road...!"

Anyway... I used Corel Draw (with a little help from 3ds max) and Photoshop. I hope you like it...!]]> Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:42:00 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/409861

An old and abandoned lighthouse is now a place for epic battles in the mind of a little boy. Some times the lighthouse takes the role of a monster as you can see here.

The theme here - similar to "Summerhouse" - is the way the new generations build their own world over the ruins of the old. That lighthouse was useful once but now is only a desert place... in an adult's perspective of course!

"Summerhouse" was a very relaxed image but for this one I was looking for a more dynamic composition... That's why the scene uses this crazy perspective.

The perspective was created with a little help of 3ds max: I did a (very simple) dummy model of the scenario and choose a camera angle. I used CorelDraw to... well draw and Photoshop for the colors.]]> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:31:10 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/404103

Here, a guy spent all night drinking at the beach and remembers that he got to go to work... Luckly, a taxi was passing by...

I used Corel Draw and Photoshop to create this illustration. The taxi was fun to create... I was thinking about a mechanical camel or horse just to set this scene in a possible future...]]> Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:31:11 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/385084

This is part of a series of "summer" illustrations I made... In this one, I tried to recreate a sense of peace and tranquility with the kid playing with a kite.

The vector drawing was made with Corel Draw. Then I used Photoshop to create the mood and color with different layers (screen and overlay).

Sure, the house is not in a normal place... I believe it's a abandoned-ancient-alien-robot. But now it is just the kid's favorite place to play.]]> Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:31:36 +0000 http://silbach.cgsociety.org/gallery/649998

Sunset Kiss is a very simple illustration...

No strange stories behind it! I just wanted to create a romantic and warm image. People run after love like the dog run after a bike... We don't know why we do it but it's exciting anyway ]]> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:14:21 +0000