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Hey folks, 

I was super inactive the last month, I feel like I need to reactivate my deviant art account and coming back into your brains now. But do you guys know me anymore or not? :D

I need you feedback, critique. I don't really want to create myself a new account, but since over a year or two I fall in love with photography also, so my gallery could spread over with concept art, illustrations, matte paintings, landscape photography and people photography. Do you think it's to much different stuff on one account or not? I am not sure. :-/

Tell me your through and it would be nice to know you guys better :) Tell me something about you!!!!
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F.A.Q.!

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Hey folks, 

I feel like I should make a little F.A.Q. :) I recently got more and more messages and notes with questions about everything and other stuff. And maybe it could interest some of you to see the questions and answers :)

So let's go. 

1) In which field/business of art do you work mostly and like to work?
Currently I am working mostly in the feature film business/industry and I really enjoy it everyday to work on movies and create 3D matte paintings and concept art for shots and upcoming movies. I also wants to work for game cinematics, they are soooo cool and I wish I can work on some of them in the future! The would be awesome.

2) Where did you study to become a matte painter or concept artist?
In general I am a self taught artist in terms of concept art and matte painting. But in studied at the SAE Institute Leipzig, Germany where I learned the basics of using programs like Autodesk Maya or The Foundry Nuke. This helps me a lot to jump from a 2D Matte Painter into a 3D Matte painter/environment td/generalist. But I also use my 3D skills for concept art. 

3) I saw you have a stock section on your portfolio website, can I download them and use it for own projects?
Yes you can, these are royalty free images which can be used for everything. For your own project, commercial projects or student projects. Feel free to use it for every project you want. I try to update them and add new packs from time to time, so make sure you visit my portfolio and the stock section 1-2 times a year or more often.

4) Can I use your finished personal concept art and matte paintings for my own projects or website, like my blog, community site, youtube page/movie or as cover for my new CD? I will put in a link to your portfolio as well as your name.
Normally not, especially not without asking. I am getting crazy when I see my art on a place where I've not putted in personally. I am a open minded guy and I like it to help other artists and ppl. So feel free to ask me if you can. When I like and see the potential in your project, what ever it is. I will try to help you. So please ask me before you want to use it. I gave the 'okay' to use my art for several pages and projects like blogs, youtube websites and so in the past, but only to ppl who ask me. Other one will getting serious problems with me!

5) What software do you use?
I like it to work on 3D environments, matte paintings and concept arts. I mostly use programs like Autodesk Maya, Nuke, Photoshop and smaller powerful programs like SpeedTree. For rendering I work with VRay and/or Arnold. But when I could choose, I would prefer Solidangle Arnold. It's an awesome renderer and I love it. For my concepts I also use Photoshop, Maya, zBrush and Keyshot! It always depends on the concept I want to do :)

6) You're sometimes so inactive on Deviantart, I know you're busy, but when can we see here your stuff you did for the projects?
Actually I will never ever UPLOADING any kind of professional feature film or game work/images on Deviantart or several other sites (I would maybe only link them like my reel), but never uploading.. It's just because of securing the copyright holders as best as I can which are mostly big studios like Warner Bros., Marvel or other major studios. But you will find my stuff on my own portfolio website only because I can post the stuff online under my own rules. Community sites sometimes giving other people the rights to use the stuff which artists posting. And this isn't what I want. So if you want to see something, feel free to visit my portfolio :)


If you have other questions, then feel free to ask me :-) I will try to answer every question I will get. 

cheers guys!


online Portfolio: www.zulusplitter.de

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Hey folks, 

happy new year. I think some of you might be not sure what I am doing when I have hear 
a lack of updates. Which means sometimes I update a lot and sometimes it needs some month
to see something from me. 

I finally made my 3D Digital Matte Painting & Concept Art Reel for 2015 where you can see
some of my work on projects like Guardians of the Galaxy or Captain America 2 :-) 

I hope you will enjoy watching it.

Here is the link:


Many thanks and enjoy your weekend!


All the best,
Tony
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Hey folks, 


here is a freshly new update from what's going on at the moment. 


T H E _ T U T O R I A L:

In the last 2 month I did 3 tutorials for the Advanced Photoshop Tutorial. One of them is released and I think available
in USA and UK. But I am not sure yet. Tell me if you saw it in other countries. 

www.imagineshop.co.uk/magazine…

It's this image:
zulusplitter.deviantart.com/ar…

The other one will come out in 2 month I think in issue 127.


Let me know what you're think about. :-)



D O _ N O T _ F O R G E T:

Don't forget to visit the deviant art page from my best friend Chris :iconhsbf6: . Enjoy his amazing work.
I am still working with my friend Chris :iconhsbf6: on a little
Sci-Fi project. We don't have a name for it at the moment. But it's about drones in form from Robots, spaceships and big machines, mostly 
military in the near future. Maybe you saw some of the stuff, here are the deviant art links to our works:

Icarus - The Anti-Aircraft Drone:
hsbf6.deviantart.com/art/Icaru…

Nautilus - The big Interplanetar Transportation Drone:
zulusplitter.deviantart.com/ar…

Mammoth - The Anti-Infantry Drone:
hsbf6.deviantart.com/art/Mammo…

Locust - The Infantry Troup Transport Drone:
zulusplitter.deviantart.com/ar…

Chimera Infantry - The Biomechanical Infantry:
hsbf6.deviantart.com/art/Chime…

I hope you enjoy all this stuff :-)
Again, please watch my friends Chris deviant art page to be up to date with our project and his projects. 

:iconhsbf6: :iconhsbf6:




G U A R D I A N S _ O F _ T H E _ G A L A X Y:


Who of you watched the Guardians of the Galaxy and what do you think about it? :)




See you Space Cowboys!!!!!!
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Hey folks, 

first of all, thanks a lot for all your support and a warm welcome to all new watchers in my list. I want to inform you with some stuff about my so maybe someone could be interested in. :-)


T H E _ I N S I D E R _ T I P:

I want to recommend a very veeerrryyy old and super good friend of mine. I know him since after 7 years now. Many people of you may don't know it, but this guy is the reason why I am working in the feature film industry now. I met him here on Deviantart the first time like you me for example. Then he got very busy and he deactivated his account here on Deviantart, but now he is back and I want to highly recommend him here for you guys. 
Follow him and enjoy his work. He is one of the most talented guys I know and I enjoyed his work since the first time.

His name is chris and he currently work for MPC as an Concept Artist. Our latest project was for example Guardians of the Galaxy.

So, visit his deviant art page, now. GOOOOOOO!!!!!!

:iconhsbf6: :iconhsbf6: :iconhsbf6: :iconhsbf6: :iconhsbf6:
:iconhsbf6: :iconhsbf6: :iconhsbf6: :iconhsbf6: :iconhsbf6:

hsbf6.deviantart.com
hsbf6.deviantart.com
hsbf6.deviantart.com






T H E _ P R O J E C T S:

I am planing some awesome concept arts the upcoming month. I am still working with my friend Chris :iconhsbf6: on a little
Sci-Fi project. We don't have a name for it at the moment. But it's about drones in form from Robots, spaceships and big machines, mostly 
military in the near future. Maybe you saw some of the stuff, here are the deviant art links to our works:

Icarus - The Anti-Aircraft Drone:
hsbf6.deviantart.com/art/Icaru…

Nautilus - The big Interplanetar Transportation Drone:
zulusplitter.deviantart.com/ar…

Mammoth - The Anti-Infantry Drone:
hsbf6.deviantart.com/art/Mammo…

Locust - The Infantry Troup Transport Drone:
zulusplitter.deviantart.com/ar…

Chimera Infantry - The Biomechanical Infantry:
hsbf6.deviantart.com/art/Chime…

I hope you enjoy all this stuff :-)
Again, please watch my friends Chris deviant art page to be up to date with our project and his projects. 

:iconhsbf6: :iconhsbf6:


Besides this exciting projects I am working on a new project about large ancient defense knights. And I am planing a ATTACK ON TITAN Fan Art (awesome anime), a fan art for Neon Genesis Evangelion and some smaller concepts :-) So please stay tuned for this ;)

Last but not least two very big matte painting projects with animation and so on.  






T H E _ N E W S:

Now I want to inform you a bit about my last month. I wasn't very active the last months and now I will tell you why. 
Back in Mai 2013 I started my carer in the feature film industry. I start working as a Concept Artist at Trixter in Munich, I had the
pleasure to work on projects like Captain America 2 or Avengers 2 Age of Ultron. After that I joined the awesome team of ScanlineVFX (best known for the movie 2012)
to work as a Matte Painter on movies like Captain America 2, Divergent and the upcoming movies Big Game and The Cut. It was a short
but awesome time at Scanline. After that I joined the matte painting department at Framestore in London (best known for the movie GRAVITY)
I worked on projects like Guardians of the Galaxy, Jupiter Ascending and Dracula Untold. It was super nice there and I enjoyed it a lot. 



Tell me what you think and thanks a lot reading all this stuff!!!!
You guys are awesome.
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