Greetings people ! :)

Here's a quick update with my latest works.

I've done three book covers, each different and special in its own way. I hope you like them. I am now working on a new one for a friend, Michael Auerbach.

Since I got my Bamboo tablet I exercise painting on a daily basis and in December 2010, I decided to take the best ideas that stemmed from my silly painting exercises and to finalize them, so I can publish them. Here are my shy attempts in painting.

I also painted a Christmas greeting card which I missed posting here, because I was too busy painting the images I release in this post. I hope you guys like this one as well, even if it is late :).

And if all this wasn't enough, I also publishing a not so 3D image I made in 5 minutes, by mistake, in 2004, but I only finalized it yesterday. The initial image was a 3D render, but I worked on it so heavily in Photoshop that it is far from the initial one, just the basic forms and shapes are there. I also painted on it - to fix and "improve" details :).

Meanwhile, I worked more on various tiny projects, like designing site interfaces, coding in HTML and stuff for school. I am still aiming at finishing my new site in 2011.

Best regards to everyone and thanks for your time!

Hello fella iReaders.

Throughout this autumn I made many tiny edits to my site. Chronologically I'll list them here for you to know.

First thing I did was to update my C.V. page in regards to my education curriculum, as i finished in the summer high school and, as of now, I am student at a local university, named U.A.V.

Around the same time, I updated my About page with up-to-date information.

Later, after several weeks I also decided to add thumbnails through the pages of the Making of for "The wind of change" project. I had this idea for quite some time, but I was too busy and at times ... too lazy to do it. Now, you might find more pleasing to read the pages (the technical details and the artistic interpretation).

Another thing I did was to change the PDF file for my e-book Zgândurele. In March 2008, I released a beefy 25 mb PDF containing the original resolution of all the images, thus many of you, who tried to load it, experienced issues while doing so. Now, it's just 2 megabytes :). And, today, I also uploaded it on Scribd.com.

And perhaps the most important update was when I published two work in progress images for my current 3D project, in the WIPs page. As you can see, I started a new big project: The piano room. As of now, I completed modeling the 3D objects required. Now, it's just a matter of texturing and rendering to completely finish the image. I estimate I'll do it this winter.

Hello! It's spring time! Creativity in the wild :).

Several days before the Valentine's Day, somebody asked me to do a 3D heart having a red stripe wrapped around it. Given that Valentine's Day was so close, I decided to make my own version of the image. So, my idea was to create a "culinary" one resembling a multitude of fresh tomatoes and also make it look fake, obnoxiously red.

Weeks ago, I had an idea of doing sketch like illustrations for my artistic writings. I've done already six sketches for my texts. I am doing all these in 3D with Cinema 4D and Photoshop for corrections or heavy editing. I created a new category in the "My projects" section of my site for them. And, I also moved the image "Integration of Poverty (Romania in E.U.)" to this new category as it fits, being done in the same style. Having worked with the 3D heart for Valentine's, I had a new idea for a funny (or sad) illustration: Love is a burden, which shows an individual carrying a heart up the hill, all alone :).

I hope you enjoy them. Thanks for reading and viewing the images. More will come! :)

I finally had the time to update the site. I added some new content and updated several pages.

My latest work is "Love bites". The first WIP saw the light in early November 2007, but I wasn't in the mood to finish it until yesterday - 3rd of February 2008. Take it as an image for Saint Valentine's Day, but I didn't intend it to be so.

In early November 2007, I was asked to make a new logo and a new site interface for Ovidiu Bosancu. In two weeks my work was finished. This is with what I came up with:

The organizers of the "Music and Poetry Festival" from Arad, Romania, asked me to design the calendar for 2008 and the cover for the next book of this festival. I am really content how these two works turned out. Again, all this happened in late September and in November 2007.

In January 2008, I was contacted by the web designer behind Foundation Recordings, asking me for the permission to use the image Old Radio. I ended to not only allow him to use it, but to also do two 3D objects for the new site design. A mixing box and a disco ball. Hope you like them.

And, in other news... I am proud to announce that in October 2007, "The wind of change" image appeared in the "Best of Cinema 4D" gallery of the 3D Attack magazine. That's not all: the same image became the front cover in November 2007 issue, which also featured a four pages interview with me :). It was my first interview of any kind.

Download the 3D Attack magazine, November 2007 issue (PDF)

In conclusion... November was the most active month since August 2007. :)

This is the new ROBO Design web site. Thank you for visiting my blog.

With this new site we made sure that we can keep in-touch with the public more easier. Expect from now on more often updates. Feel free to navigate the simple interface :).

New content on the site:

One new sketch-like image: Integration of poverty

5 new logos: Xeloda, OSCIR, R.R., LibTom Crypt v2, DSCMJ

4 new web sites: Sava Brancovici School, Henri Coandă High School, Școala Generală nr. 5, CIA 2007

2 new icon packs: Cadastrul Apelor [19 icons], Salarizare Personal [74 icons]

One new fancy book cover: LibTom Crypt Developer Manual

... and many new pages.

... 2006 was highly active.

About the site

I've been told that the interface design is not good. The ROBO Design logo is too retro, the colour theme is too brown and... last, but not least the navigation system is not good. Well the reasoning behind this interface was to make a simple, clean one. Nothing too fancy. The colour theme is inspired by the Ubuntu Linux distro, besides this we didn't want to stick to the blue colour. As for the navigation system, it's clear that by having so many menus, we would have cluttered the whole site. We wanted both to have our own pages, our own sort of site. Thus, the decision was to hide the menus under these two named parts/sides.

I haven't updated the site, because I am generally very busy. Yet, today I had the time to do so.

What's new:

• IFMA 3D elevators 2nd package. My collaboration has continued, therefore this is the new package of 3D elevators for their catalogs.
• two new web sites:
  • PRO-net.ro. For an Internet Service Provider in Arad, Romania.
  • Poetry Festival. A web site for a high-school music and poetry festival organized annually in Arad, Romania.
• a book cover for the Poetry Festival.
• a new page in this web site: Web programming (no longer available) in Exhibition. This page was created in an effort to provide users visiting this site with the latest toys Mihai is working on, the web programmer of this web site.

This is almost everything new I have worked on. I am always working on new stuff.

Welcome to the new website: ROBO Design v4.

I return after a long time with a brand new web site. All the content is updated and checked on the site. There is also a lot of new content that has been published together with this new installment.

New images in the Exhibition section: Digital Morning, Herbanaculum, The Net, Alandala, Fairy Tale and Disney Grass.

New content in the Portfolio section:

Four websites: Varbittour.ro, Platonos.org, Outshinemusic.com, Ovidiu-bosancu.ro,

Three logos for: LibTom Crypt, Ovidiu Bosancu, Platonos.org

New features in v4:

• RSS 2 feeds
• Flash interface (optional)
• 35 emoticons for use in comments
• New voting poll and content rating systems
• Added popularity counters for items
• Spatial navigation
• Keyboard shortcuts for accessibility
• The site conforms to the current web standards:
  • HTML 4.01 Strict
  • CSS 2.1
  • WCAG Priority 3
  • US Section 508
• New pages: Help and Settings

Yes, that's right! RODE 3 Lite is a featured skin on winamp.com. This is just the Lite edition!

For the Full edition I planned many new things and an improved interface.

Welcome to the brand new ROBO Design V3 website!

What’s new:

• two interface templates: ROBO Design v2 and v3
• site available in two languages: English and Romanian
• our new address: robodesign.ro
• content cleanup: old creations removed
• W3C validated website

Hello!

I have now finished one of the biggest changes to this website, until now:

• new interface for the menu bar
• top images were replaced with titles
• new interface for categories, with bigger screenshots and more informations
• added a voting poll and content statistics

Let me know if you like the interface updates!

More details in Site history