I am writing these notes to answer your potential inquiries about sources of my artistic inspiration and some of my works' subject matters.
My new picture concepts might come from anywhere: curious window views, fantastic movie scenes, or routine commercial media visuals. The ideas are in the air. They are all over the place. Usually, future compositions come as a vague visualization of something amusingly nonstandard, something you might define as extraordinary or out of the ordinary. Typically, the first impression transforms considerably by the end of the creative process. I am surprised to see how different the results are from my original thoughts most of the time.
I am trying to merge real-world images with subconscious emotions and philosophical thoughts in most of my artworks. Many of my creations are similar to mental puzzles where you can take a trip from one point to the very end by analyzing symbolic objects. Occasionally, the subject matter of the picture is unclear. It happens when the path is hiding under layers of mutually excepted items. Sometimes, an image could appear almost abstract and meaningless, but there is always something for you to discover.
I do not force my comprehension of a picture or push my philosophical opinions about it on viewers. I only hint at them by image titles. You are free to interpret or translate my artwork content in any way close to you only. My view or even existence should not bother you. Your job is to build picture concepts based on your knowledge, world perception, preferences, and sensitivity
George Grie, September 20, 2003
Tools of trade
George Grie created digital artworks by using a variety of software tools. Here's the shortlist of the most used ones:
3D Studio MAX, Developer: AUTODESK Highly customizable and scalable 3D animation, modeling, and rendering solution for creative professionals and large-scale pipelines for games, design visualizations, film & television.
Adobe Photoshop, a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap design.
Terragen, is a landscape generator with controllable parameters that allow extremely varied terrain shapes and photorealistic rendering.
Poser, Developer: Curious Labs Inc. Poser is the 3D figure design tool for artists, illustrators, and animators that enables you to create 3D figures from ready-to-use human and animal models easily.
DAZ3D, DAZ Studio - Pose, animate, and render 3D Models in your 3D Studio. Adobe Illustrator, is a vector-based drawing program
Adobe Illustrator has become the standard tool for illustration design.