- About me -
Hello, my name is Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco, call me Cesar. I am 27 years old Mexican. I studied Computer Engineering and learned 3D by my own. I have traveled and work at different countries, doing both videogames and movies. I currently work for DreamWorks Animation as a Surfacing Artist. And that's it! haha. If you got questions send me a mail, I'll answer them. The more talented people I get to know, the least I like to talk about myself, but it is always interesting to get tricky questions which make me think =)
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- Physical Awards -
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MI6 - Marketing Project - Gold Senet - The MI6 Muse-Senet Awards are the first and only annual awards competition established to honor the finest work created by the promotion, marketing and design professionals of the interactive entertainment industry. The piece that won the award is "Sex And The Socket". You can currently view it at my "Videos" section. |
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Davey Awards 2006 - Silver Senet - The first important awards competition exclusively for the "Davids" of creativity. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the "Creative Davids" who derive their strenght from big ideas, rather than stratospheric budgets. The Davey is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, and invitation-nly body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaime dmedia, advertising, and marketing firms. |
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VFS - Best Final Project - This award it is chosen by internal and external judges at VFS. The award is given to the student with the best final project during the Digital Design Diploma. |
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VFS - Best Project Management - This award it is chosen by internal and external judges at VFS. The award is given to the student with the best project management practices for the creation of his/her final project. |
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- Web Awards-
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Favourite Web Awards - Site dedicated to the best of the web. The users and site judges decided that my "Sex And The Socket" animation was the best of the month. |
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3dtotal.com - 3dtotal selects from hundreds of images each week the best ones. These images are given the exposure to over 400,000 visitors in one single week. This time, I won with the image entitled "Rusty" at my image gallery. |
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3drender.com : Lighting Challenge #4 - 3drender.com is a site managed by Jeremy Birn, Technical Director of PIXAR animation studios. The challenge was to illuminate glass. 3 of 4 images with wich I participated where awarded (featured at 3drender.com) |
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- Publications -
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3dcreative - During this chapter, we will learn how to fake radiosity. This will allow us to lower render times and maintain the quality of our renders. In order to do so, we will explain new work-flow techniques and tools used for lighting and rendering. |
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3dcreative - In this chapter we will learn how to create a daylight setup using Lightwave. We wil combine the tools and theory explained in the previous chapter (Part 3); Direct and Indirect lighting, Area lights, Distant lights, Global Illumination, bounces, and much more. |
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Essential Lightwave V9 - I was the technical reviewer for Essential Lightwve V9. It was an awesome experience, and definetly a high quality end product! It was a pleasure to work with all the people involved. |
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3dcreative - In this tutorial you will learn to apply a surface to a group of polygons, and understand some basic properties all surfaces have. |
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Ballistic Publishing - The character named Rusty will be included inside the second edition of D'Artiste: Character Modelling. Expect it in May! |
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3dcreative - This tutorial covers my personal approach to lighting: what is lighting, how to analyze it, and why it is important. Click here to view it, or visit the Resource section to find this and other tutorials. |
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HDRI3D - Two of my images are featured at HDRI3D ,agazine, issue #10. The image titles are: "Diamond Ring" and "Perfumes". |
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3dcreative - One of my images is featured at the gallery of the month at 3dcreativemag, issue 12, page 51. |
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3dcreative - I wrote an article for the issue of October 2006. The article features a "making of" the image entitled "Rusty". The article is located at page 96-104. You can download just the tutorial in pdf too: download pdf file |
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HDRI3D - Two of my images will be featured at HDRI3D magazine, issue #11. The image titles are: "Eggit!" and "Rusty". |
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My artwork appeared on the front page of CGPortfolio for 7 days and was included in the weekly CGSociety newsletter, distributed to over 200,000 readers, as one of their 'Hot Portfolios'.
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- Interviews -
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Animation Reporter Magazine - Animation Reporter made me an interview for their magazine. It was a surprise how much interest in detail they where able to put together with some very interesting questions. It was a great experience, since I ended up knowing more about me by making it! |
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CGFocus - It was an honor to be interviewed by them. In this interview I share many exclusive personal facts that give a better inshight to my life and work. |
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VFS - I spent a lot of time working at this school, and earned many recognition for my work there. In this interview I share my experience at VFS, as well as some insight to my goals and future. |
- Education -
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