Contemporary digital art impresses by its originality and variety of ideas and colors. And it’s hardly possible not to admire the amazing and gorgeous works of the contemporary artists. This blog post is an interesting collection of 3D images gathered all over the Internet. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy it and find something new and exciting for you.
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Title: Ice Age Premonition or Infinite Iceberg Synthesizer
Author: George Grie
Location: Canada
Software: Photoshop, 3ds max, ZBrush
The Ice Age Premonition image is a combination of 2D, 3D, and photo manipulation techniques. The sky and icing are matte painted photos; the tower and stairs are 3D rendering.
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Title: Season of the friendly snails
Author: Gilles Tran
Software: POV-Ray
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Title: Mother Nature
Author: Meats Meier
Location: USA
Software: 3dmax
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Title: Pianist
Author: Timour Abdulov
Location: Russia
Software: ZBrush, 3ds max
Inspired by The Pianist movie, Timour Abdulov created this amazing 3D work.
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Title: Wind Chime
Author: Sam Nassar
Location: Syria
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop
“Every time the wind blows, soft musical sounds emanating from the miserable sinned souls”
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Title: Fly
Author: Laurent Pierlot
Location: France
Software: 3ds max, ZBrush, Photosjop
Comment: I originaly created this image for a making of DVD. It’s from an old drawing that I had made a wile ago. Lots of ZBrushing. Lots of Photoshop, Lots of love and fun!
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Title: Relic
Author: Li Yidong
Location: China
Software Maya
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Title: Maya Tribulation
Author: Adrian Guerra
Location: Honduras
Software: Maya, ZBrush
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Title: Savonette 14K Pocketwatch – Sand Edition
Author: Daniel Kvasznicza
Location: Austria
Software: Cinema 4D 8.2 Studio
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Title: Tarsier
Author: Łukasz Klepka
Location: Bydgoszcz, Poland
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop, VRay
Łukasz Klepka is an artist from Poland. His preferred tools are Photoshop, 3ds max, After Effects, Flash, Painter. Enjoy his original art! 
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Title: Mutant-cube
Author: Václav Pajkrt
Location: Czech Republic
Software: Xenodream, Photoshop.
Influenced by photos from scanning electron microscope (SEM), Václav Pajkrt, a 3D artist from Czech Republic, created this 3D image called Mutant-cube.
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Title: Sun and Woman
Author: Vincent Claes
Location: Belgium
Software: 3D Studio MAX, Animation Master
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Title: 10 changes #4
Author: Gilles Tran
Software: POV-Ray, Rhino
This image was rendered in POV-Ray, building and mini cooper were modelled with Rhino.
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Title: Disruption
Author: Till Nowak
Location: Germany
Software: 3D max
Till Nowak is a digital artist, designer and filmmaker. He is working for creative agencies, film productions, and independent projects since 1999. His work has been exhibited on hundreds of international film festivals, featured at SIGGRAPH 2006 and 2007.
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Title: Robot – Octopus (a real fashion model with 3D FX)
Name: Dominique Fraser
Country: Canada
Software: 3ds max, Maya, Photoshop
This is a REAL fashion model with 3D and 2D effects added. The girl’s skin was retouched in photoshop, that why she looks perfect, but she’s still a real person, not 3D! This is a great mix between real fashion shots and CG FXs.
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Title: Grow of cubic bacteria
Author: Václav Pajkrt
Location: Czech Republic
Software: Xenodream, Photoshop.
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Title: Light House
Author: John Paul Giancarlo
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Software: Maya, mental ray, Photoshop
John Paul Giancarlo is currently employed as a 3D Lighting artist. His preferred tools are 3ds max, After Effects, Photoshop, ZBrush, Renderman, Vue.
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Title: The Summoning
Author: unknown
Software: 3dmax
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These 3D images of contemporary artists are a great source of inspiration. If you like them too, leave your comments– share with your thoughts. Cheers!