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January 3, 2011 | Published by Chris Takakura |
Happy new year from Dream Infinity Studios. Thank you very much for your support in 2010, which with no argument has been a very good year. I can predict already that the new year is going to be very busy already in terms of client side projects. However, I have a lot of plans stored for the site and releases planned. In 2010, I have accomplished to release execution 4, my 3rd e-book, and 2 wallpapers. Although that may not seem to be a lot to some of you, the magnitude and the scale of these projects were very big. In 2011 I plan to release the next version of this site titled “Shiva” in complete form and plan to release more wallpapers supporting more device formats. Hold on to your hats, this year is going to be a one big creative ride.
Thank you very much again for all the support!
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December 1, 2010 | Published by Chris Takakura |
New wallpaper titled “Binary Opposition” Is online. Download it, put it on your desktop, or your smartphones. Even better, this wallpaper release also supports enhanced 300ppi retina display for the iphone 4. It also supports the ipad at the 133ppi (1024 x 768). So the quality will be great for those of you with iphone 4 or ipad.
You can download the wallpaper in the downloads page. The PSD source file is also available to download there, if you are interesting in remixing my artwork.
And just in case you missed it, “Hana”, my next latest E-Book is out to read now for free. All of it for free.
34MB High Quality PDF
13MB Medium Quality PDF
Or you can just to the e-book download page by clicking here.
On the third news, a Bulgarian magazine called “AVAart” interviewed me last month for a glimpse of information on who I am as a digital artist. It is always flattering to know that I actually touch international communities rather than just U.S.A alone. I am very thankful for everyone who has supported me over the years and it is honestly you guys that keep me going with this website and my personal projects.
You can check out the interview here. You will have to use google translate to translate what it says or…
Just view the image below for the English version. :)
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November 24, 2010 | Published by Chris Takakura |
Surprise surprise. I know I haven’t said anything about Hana coming out, but guess what? It is out today. I know I have been talking about this book for 2 years now but it finally see’s the light of day. The Hana book is available in high and medium quality PDF formats. Please do download it and check it out. I am very proud of the work that went behind this project and I am very thankful for everyone who contributed a lot of time with me (more hours than I told them in the beginning). The most thankful part is that they helped me out in editing, direction, and writing for free. So thank you very very much. You know who you are.
You can download it immediately by clicking here (right click on the link and do a save as to save on your hard drive.)
34MB High Quality PDF
13MB Medium Quality PDF
Or you can just to the e-book download page by clicking here
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August 27, 2010 | Published by Chris Takakura |
Geonosis
So I have been quite absent with releasing new wallpapers and print pieces in 2010. In all honesty, after designing Afterburner: Commence in August of 2009, I kind of felt like I had to re-invent myself yet again to pursue a new degree and generation of digital illustration work that I display on my site. To quickly go over a history of the “reinvention” that I have done, back in 2006 I went through a designers block where I felt like my wallpaper and print design pieces have not evolved in the past 4 to 5 years. That disturbed me a lot and bothered me to a point where I significantly forced myself to acquire new Photoshop skills and the production of digital art pieces as a whole. After this initial reinvention, it resulted in quite successful pieces such as Trans Minimum: Kasha, Stridence, Eternus Somnium, Leviathan, and so on…
Of course I have had quite a success in the end of 2009 and 2010 with personal clients so that has been taking up a lot of my time. I also put together and released the film portion of Execution 4 //: The Mind Games Initiative, as well as my 3rd e-book: Hana. I have been far from dead in terms of producing work for Dream Infinity Studios, just have been slow with the result and releasing it out onto this website.
So, in the Winter of 2009, almost immediately after the release of “Nocturne Phoenix”, I went through yet another personal reinvention again to prepare myself to do a whole new direction and work flow of my digital illustration art work. After several months of hiatus in the wallpaper department, the day where you get to see my first piece of the result of new techniques and work flow comes live. I present to you Geonosis.
I also had a pleasure working with a photo piece from photographer, Jessica Truscott, who shot a quite awesome model shot included in Geonosis. You can visit her site here.
Get Geonosis wallpaper here: Geonosis Wallpaper
Super high resolution detail of Geonosis is here: Geonosis High Resolution
Note: Support for the following smart phones have been discontinued: Google G1, Instinct, Blackberry Curve/Tour, Storm.
Support for the following smart phones have been introduced and will continue to be supported: Droid, Droid X, Droid 2, iphone 3GS-, iphone 4, Sprint Evo 4G.
Edit: Geonosis Source .PSD file is now available.
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June 20, 2010 | Published by Chris Takakura |
The first portion of Execution 4, titled “Love Drawn Dagger” is available to view RIGHT NOW! Please check it out and any feed back would be appreciated!
Love Drawn Dagger however is in kind of a “beta” phase. The phase titled “First Motion” is the raw live footage of the film without much special effects. The 2nd and final phase “Final Motion” is scheduled to be available sometime in 2011. The website for execution 4 will also change according to time. The project as a whole will feature the film, web presentation, and couple print designs including wallpapers and more. The whole package will explain the story line of a girl who steps beyond the boundary of betrayal and hate from unconditional love and devotion. The package as a whole is something I call “multi-medium design project”, where many different uses of media is used to convey a story.
The execution is fully titled “The Mind Games Initiative” and the title itself should start making sense as the Execution 4 grows and morphs into a big project. Much much thanks to the fans who have continuously waited for the project to surface, and I definitely am excited to release this portion of the project. This is also a pretty historic day for dreaminfinity.com, as it is the 1st execution to be released in nearly 7 years. If you are curious about what “execution series” is for this website, please check out the page and click on the “about the film” link. Thank you very much!
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Site note: The Illustrator tutorial “Using Artboards” has been updated for version CS4 and CS5.
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