"Patrick & Chris @ Filter Foundry's booth @ NVIDIA GPU Tech Conf. 2012"

GPU Technology Conference (GTC) advances global awareness of GPU computing and visualization and their importance to the future of science and innovation. Through world-class education, including hundreds of hours of technical sessions, tutorials, panel discussions, and moderated roundtables, GTC brings together thought leaders from a wide range of fields.

The Filter Foundry Team was excited to be selected for the Emerging Company Summit recognizing tech innovation.

Attendees at GTC arrive from over 40 countries and comprise virtually every profession involved in HPC.

GTC is the must-attend event for those ...

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It’s Diablo month on Filter Foundry: As our way of recognizing one of the greatest game sagas every imagined,  Filter Foundry is giving 3 months of Pro Membership for all concept art uploads during the month of May. It’s really simple, create an account with Invite Code “Diablo” and start uploading your best game or fantasy concept art. Our internal team of art curators will award the best PAD with 2 years of Pro Membership.

This video game image released by Activision Blizzard Inc., shows gameplay from "Diablo III". The epic fantasy role-playing game has been 12 years ...

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If I had to pick one art movement that has fascinated me since my first days in art school they would have to be Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Yeah I know (just one) but I can't have one without the other. If you look around neither can our contemporary architects and artist friends. You can't escape it. It's everywhere: buildings, movie posters, smart phones. People are naturally attracted to the lines both rigid and flowing from these period. When I first had the pleasure of seeing and later working with Trish I felt that natural attraction ...

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Cut your hours.
At first glance, many creative professionals are horrified at this idea. It appears counter intuitive to cut your hours in order to get more done, but this is a proven successful method. It is easy to feel overwhelmed when you overload yourself with work, and you will find yourself dragging. This can lead to poorer work quality. By keeping your hours short, however, you can be more efficient and focus on the task at hand, rather than how much more you have to do.

Give your designs time to settle.
This will give your brain a break ...

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FF: Would you introduce yourself to our readers and tell us how got involved with 3D/Illustration and character design?

Alessandro: My name is Alessandro Baldasseroni and I'm currently working as lead character artist at  Blur Studios  in Los Angeles. I started to do 3D more than 10 years ago, but my professional involvement with characters coincided with my work at Blur in 2007. Before that I was 3D modeling for a small game developer in Milan, mainly working on environments and occasionally some vehicles and props.

At that time I was spending a lot of my spare time ...

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Many people are confused when asked to differentiate between graphic designers and web developers, but there are significant differences between these types of creative professionals. Sure, they both deal with digital manipulation, and will likely both have online portfolios on display, but the professions require various skills and education.

One primary difference is that of the target. Graphic designers are considered artists, and looking at a few design portfolios will likely exemplify this characterization. Manipulating images, pixels, and vectors requires an artistic eye, and the most successful are those that can be imaginative with colors and type.

Web developers, on ...

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Our friends at China Design Hub (CDH) have been covering original design and art from China for a few months now and have shared with us a couple of inspiring new artists. The blog, that features art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, has been showcasing different creative industries from industrial and architecture to interior and fashion. Their goal is simply to shake off the negative light and biased view toward Chinese Design. Here are 3 talented artists that caught our attention.

Sally Zou
Sally is a Shanghainese born in 1986 and started picking up art, design and advertising after ...

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The Benefits of Online Portfolios

There are many advantages to developing an online portfolio, including convenience, diversity, and affordability.  When presenting a portfolio, it is important to be as efficient as possible in order to both keep prospective employers interested, as well as to give yourself the best opportunity to succeed.

Many creative professionals prefer online portfolios because of how convenient they are to create.  Instead of endless time spent printing and organizing a hand held portfolio, you could spend all of your time designing it into something truly unique before the simple process of uploading your work onto the ...

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FF: Victor, tell us a little bit about your photography and your art.

Victor: I’m a 36 year old Photo Artist, from Barcelona. My college education was in the School of Architecture, as that was supposed to be my profession.
However, and due to the fact that since early years of my life there was always a computer at home, in particular, because of the job of my father and, in combination with that fact that most of the times, in my childhood, I enjoyed playing alone, using my imagination, I started to get in touch with several kinds ...

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A vanguard of the art movement know as Photorealism and proprietor of the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in SoHo, Louis K. Meisel has made art his life. His 1996 book The Great American Pin-up came across our desk and we contacted Mr. Meisel to get his insight on his specialty.

FF: How would you describe your gallery’s mission and vision?

My focus after inventing the word PHOTOREALISM in 1969 and assembling a number of artists under that genre has been to represent, present , promote and collect the finest post modern, art history making realist painters and sculptors in the ...

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