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Marek Denko on Facebook

marek.denko — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:57:25 +0000

Hello, world… since my personal account on facebook has been bombarded by requests from lots of fans I decided to promote the official Marek Denko group here. My apologies to all guys whos requests have been ignored. I’m just trying to keep the personal account personal. Hope you understand.

Everything beautiful is far away

marek.denko — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:01:31 +0000

It’s about being far away from family, friends from everything you love and care about. Just an anonymous cold waiting areas of airports gates with strangers all around set to dime mood of cold weather and soft fogy sunset make your unwanted company. I know these days airport are quite modern and fancy… but it’s even more unpersonalised with all those duty free shops and fake Irish pubs and pizza restaurants with fake smile or without it.

3dcreative - The gallery

marek.denko — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:12:52 +0000

My recent personal artwork Eldorado was included in 3dcreative - The gallery October 2009 issue. You can download free lite version here or buy a full version issue here.

Eldorado

marek.denko — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:10:49 +0000

After a while I’ve finally finished my new personal project called “Eldorado”. The soil was originally made for a commercial print but the client refused this version asking for less violent soil and so on and so on… We all know how these clients/studio stuff work. I kept the soil scene and decided to use it for my own project since I liked it pretty much. I added lots of extra features like grass strands, roots, leaves and other small bits here and there. At the beginning I wasn’t really sure what will be the hero of the shot. I was thinking about tennis ball, golf ball, pack of cigarettes, bottle etc. but at the and one little toy car won.

Digital Art Masters Vol.3 - Free Chapter Making of Hektor

marek.denko — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:59:37 +0000

Folks at FocalPress and 3dtotal.com decided to make chapter I wrote for Digital Art Masters Vol.3 - Making of Hektor free to download. So I’m not really sure if it’s that good or that bad but since I’m thinking from time to time I would say it’s kind of promotional move so to be humble it has to be really amazing chapter. Well ok, end of jokes… Here is the link to download the chapter (Enjoy it!) and here you can buy Digital Art Masters vol.3 book. I have all 3 volumes of DAM in my library and I can say it’s really nice reading! Besides… my 2 years old son loves it even more.

Another little miracle

marek.denko — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:20:28 +0000

Another little miracle came into my life this morning… Her name is Ivanka. So welcome here … to this strange world full of strange people…

Magazine Pixel no.149 - A2 poster of Buggy desert rose + Making of buggy series (sk)

marek.denko — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:34:16 +0000

May issue of the Czech and Slovakian computer graphics and digital audio magazine Pixel number 149 published my article called “Making of the buggy series” in SK language and also there is a nice poster of my Buggy series: Desert rose in it. For world wide there will be very soon much larger and detailed “making of” available in new book from 3dtotal and that one will be in English.

The Jury member on raph.com

marek.denko — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:01:12 +0000

I’m proud to announce that I became the member of the Jury on raph.com CG gallery. It’s one of the most prestigious and respected 3d virtual gallery over the globe. I still remember happiness when my first piece Female anatomy study was accepted in there back in 2004. It’s a honor guys thanks!

Lost Lake

marek.denko — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:39:12 +0000

I’ve finished Lost Lake project or better I should say that my HDD finished my Lost Lake project. I had this little accident with HDD and this render is the only thing left I found on my FTP from this lost project. So I called it Lost Lake. There won’t be any wireframes or any shade views this time. : o / … only thing I can show are older wip renders.

3Dtotal interview

marek.denko — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:41:22 +0000

There is an interview with me on 3d Total.com. If you are interested you can read it here

PF2009

marek.denko — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:39:34 +0000

bla bla bla… you know…

A.W.E.M

marek.denko — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:18:50 +0000

Another Worthless Environmental Movie - that is how I named my recent short movie. It’s a very simple atmospherical movie made of simple shots showing wasteland, rusty shipwreck, dead bird in oil and heart touching things like that.

Digital Art Masters :Volume 3

marek.denko — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:08:16 +0000

I’m glad to let you know that I made it into the new 3d total book Digital Art Masters :Volume 3 with my work Hektor. Book looks pretty nice and it is full of beautiful images and interesting “making of” tutorials. I’m happy to be part of it.

MAXCON 2008 - my contribution

marek.denko — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:00:30 +0000

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!

MAXCON 2008

marek.denko — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:26:23 +0000

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

NoEmotion.net is online

marek.denko — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:40:28 +0000

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.

Buggy series

marek.denko — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:52:01 +0000

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.

Softbank commercial

marek.denko — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:36:25 +0000

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.

Interview in 3DCreative Magazine

marek.denko — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:33:05 +0000

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

Freelancer at your service

marek.denko — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:53:24 +0000

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.

PF 2008

marek.denko — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:38:52 +0000

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

Hektor

marek.denko — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:07:10 +0000

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

Autodesk 3dsmax Master 2007

marek.denko — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:18:05 +0000

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 son

marek.denko — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:01:24 +0000

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

Interview at Raph.com

marek.denko — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:36:04 +0000

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

What took you so long!?

marek.denko — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:47:59 +0000

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.

Autodesk Masters Nominees 2007

marek.denko — Thu, 24 May 2007 06:26:41 +0000

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.

Making of Sunrise of the 80’s

marek.denko — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:01:44 +0000

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.

Moving to Prague: A New hope

marek.denko — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:54:29 +0000

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.

Sunrise of the 80’s

marek.denko — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:44:13 +0000

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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PF 2007

marek.denko — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:10:25 +0000

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.

3 weeks in Shiraz (Iran 2006)

marek.denko — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:49:11 +0000

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.

3dcreative November issue015

marek.denko — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:05:29 +0000

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!

New domain… new dirty look

marek.denko — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:36:01 +0000

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.