X3 Studios Blog

With the summer coming to an end, we can slowly but surely return to our blog. And to start out with a more optimistic touch, we want to tell you about the most recent Flash websites we launched (Poesis Hotel & Restaurant, Tonik Gym and X3 Studios V5), that received a lot of “love” from some of the major online galleries out there.

We thank Pagecrush, NewWebPick, Designlicks, Xhilarate, Designcharts, TheBestDesigns, Lookom, Mostinpired, Dailyslurp, Webdesignawards, Designyoutrust, Kreativos and all of you who wrote about these sites on your blogs, and of course we really want to thank the hundreds of Chinese guys who appreciated our work and mentioned it

Tonik Gym (www.tonikgym.ro) is a fitness and bodybuilding club from Timişoara, which rapidly gained its recognition among other fitness clubs around.

It’s not usual when going into a fitness and bodybuilding club to see huge drawings on the walls, it’s not usual that such a location is monochromatic, without any of the bling-bling that we got so used to. However, Tonik Gym is a fitness and bodybuilding club which has a monochromatic website and full-of-graffiti walls. By using these guidelines, we tried to create something different, powerful and unique. The project is multimedia all the way down, including print materials, sport sacks and T-shirts, interior and exterior graffiti up to an interactive experience and Flick account.

You can find the official press release about this launch at X3 Studios Press.

Today the 10th of June 2008 we launched www.highclassevents.ro, a website we created for High Class Events from Timişoara, a company specialized in organizing any type of event.

On the site, visitors can find latest news about the company, the company’s list of services provided and of course an extensive image gallery showcasing images from events that were organized.

Friday the 6th of June 2008 we launched www.treswhitesupreme.ro, a showcase microsite for Opalescence TrèsWhite Supreme, a top product in dental cosmetics. Opalescence is the world leader when it comes to teeth whitening products, brought in Romania by Diviodent.

On the site, visitors can find product characteristics, usage instructions, recommendations and warnings, or can order the products online.

Design And Design is an online gallery, which showcases one piece of work a day from two design categories, graphic design and product design. All selected work will be published in “The Design and Design Book of The Year”.

The graphic design chosen for yesterday, May 15 was our company’s business cards.

As usual, stay tuned, more to come!

After Eulda, Logolounge, CG Chosen and VFXTalk, Sorin has also been mentioned in two online/offline magazines NewWebPick and Digital Arts.

You can read an interview with our Art Director in NewWebPick #15, along with the showcase of some of his work. You can also read a second interview in Digital Arts May edition.

You can also see his work/experiments on his personal website, Behance gallery or Flickr.

Enjoy!

Matte paintings are used to create “virtual sets” and “digital backlots”. They can be used to create entire sets, or to extend portions of an existing set. (Wikipedia)

The image from above, a digital matte painting, created by our colleague and Art Director Sorin Bechira, is the result of a challenge launched on CGTalk, one of the biggest digital graphics community. The work was well appreciated and ended up quickly on Spotlight on mattepainting.org in the 5^th edition of CG Chosen Magazine, and the people who received our 2008 Calendar can also see it being featured for the month of October.

Usually we can only see such images in their final stage, the question that still remains being: “How did he/she do it?” Fortunately enough for all of us Sorin also wrote a very comprehensive tutorial for 3DM3.com where he explains all the steps he took to create the work.

The tutorial has three steps:

• plate restoration
• plate extension
• digimatte

If you liked this work you can download it as wallpaper from cgwallpapers.com.

Congratulations , Sorin!