The Professional Photoshop Book - Volume 7 2015

usually assemble the team from my friends,

partners or other guys I admire on the internet.

“For example, on the big project that we

were working on at the beginning of 2015, the

character concept artist was a girl from the

US and her concepts were turned into reality

by a talented character artist from Bulgaria.

Four other guys working on this project were

local friends.”

This collaborative workflow is extended to

other creatives working in the same building as

Radoxist Studio, which is “based in a

co-working centre in Bratislava, in an old

thread factory. It was very famous in this

region and there is a book coming out about its

history. Now, it is like a big community of art,

photographic and architecture ateliers. For us,

it is a great space where we can do our

projects. For example, when I want to shoot, I

just need to go one floor downstairs to atelier

Bavlna.” And as the studio grew, so too did its

working practices and toolkit. “We are really

well known for our CGI works I think. But there

is more than that. Back then [when I started the

studio], I slowly realised that I do not want to

be stuck in CGI forever. I wanted to explore

other techniques too and became more like a

generalist; to have all the tools necessary to

build every kind of awesome artwork. The

more tools you master, the freer you feel as an

artist,” Žilinský explains.

For this project, Radoxist Studio started

with the 3D assets they needed to create the

main artwork, and one of the first things they

needed to do was get an accurate look at the

London streets they’d be representing in the

poster. “We had a meeting with my head of

CGI, Jakub Goda, and discussed how we would

start. We opened up Google Earth and tried to

find an ideal location for peeling back the

ground in London. We were lucky to find a

good angle and made a simple sketch that we

sent to the agency for approval. It was

important to see some well-known London

landmarks – Big Ben worked like a charm. I

was leading the project, art directing CGI and

doing the final retouching and colour grading.

Jakub was responsible for putting together a

scene in 3D and supplying me with render

layers. All the other guys – Daniel Lešták, Aleš

Zvolánek, Miloš Jakubec, Braňo Adamčík

• were modelling different kinds of buildings
  and supplying them to Jakub.”
  “The most challenging [aspect] was to tune
  the expectations of client and agency with the
  real possibilities of what could be done in
  terms of budget and timeline” – the studio
  was given just a month to complete the
  project – “Originally they wanted at least six
  different landmarks to be seen in the final
  visual and an overview of a larger part of the
  city. But we knew that this was not going to
  work in terms of perspective, scale and the
  work that needed to be done. So we came up

We opened Google Earth

and tried to find an ideal

location for peeling back the

ground in London. We were

lucky to find a good angle and

made a simple sketch that we

sent to the agency

Inside Radoxist Studio: Radoxist Studio

is a small team led by Radoslav Žilinský, with creative specialists invited in to

contribute to projects on an ad-hoc basis

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