Profile

Birthday/birthplace: 27.12.71, Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil.

Current Home: San Clemente, CA - USA

Working at: Barnyard, The Movie - Animator / textures - full time job - Nickelodeon Movies / Paramount Pictures (until May 2005)

Graduation: 9º period fine arts on UnB - Brasília-DF - Brazil.

CG Related Activities: founder and administrator of the brazilian forum 3D4ALL; moderator of CGTalk forum, ZBrush software beta tester, CGChannel CG elite member, jury member of Raph, a virtual CG gallery.

Hobbies: CG, design, music, DVD movies and videogame emulators.

Works: gALLERy.

Hardware: BOXX Workstation - dual Opteron 248, RAM 2GB PC2700 ECC Reg DDR, HD 120GB 7200rpm SATA150 8MB cache, Logitech Mouse MX310 (optical), Tablet Wacom Intuos 2 8''x6'', CD/DVD Burner (combo) Sony, DVDR/DVDRW Burner Memorex Dual Layer 16x, Monitor Samsung LCD 19" Syncmaster 192MP, NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 256MB DDR

Other Equipment: Digital Camera Kodak EasyShare DX7630, SLR Camera Canon Elan IIe 28-80mm, Mini-DV Camera JVC GR-DVL725u.

Softwares: Lightwave 3D, Maya, Softimage XSI (animation), 3DS MAX, After Effects, Premiere, Painter, Photoshop, ZBrush.

Music: Classic (Bach, Bethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi), Rock/Progressive Metal (Dream Theater, Symphony X, Rush, Deep Purple, Kansas, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC), Guitarists (Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Jason Becker, Greg Howe, Vinnie Moore, Tony Iommi, Nuno Bettencourt, Angus Young, Jimi Hendrix), Zeca Baleiro, Zé Ramalho, Los Hermanos, Ravi Shankar and many, many others.

Games: Tony Hawk Pro Skater Series

Food: nothing that moves :-). Japanese food, capuccino, ice cream.

Movies: Quero ser John Malkovich, Matrix, Fight Club, Amadeus, Shrek, Top Gang, Corra que a Polícia vem Aí, Apertem os Cintos o Piloto Sumiu, Bug's Life, all Monthy Python movies, Central do Brasil, Abril Despedaçado, almost all Wood Allen movies and all the ones that have great special effects, especially 3D effects.:-)

Photos

Thanks

Firstly, for my wife Celinha, for the whole support, love and dedication. I love you!

Mr. Steve Oedekerk and Crew (Omation Studios), Ofer Alon (Pixolator) and Jaime Labelle from Pixologic, CGTalk/CGNetworks, CGChannel, 3DTotal, Raph. Zeluca, Marcus Eurício (in memorian), Lobão, Ítalo and Elvis for the friendship, incentive and daily laugh. Romeu Kreutz, for the friendship and support in the construction of the site. Alexandre Militão, for the pictures of the session gALLERy/Traditional Art/Sculptures. To Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, Warner Bros. and Hanna Barbera for all of the dedicated years to the "art" of entertainment. All of the "traditional" and/or "digital" artists, of the past or of the present, that inspiring us, they turn more pleased our learning every day. For all the software manufacturers for facilitate the artist's life every day. To all of the people that maintain sites with artistic content and/or 2D and 3D cummunities. To the "serious" teachers of the Institute of Arts of UnB (YEAH! 3D is ART for sure gentlemen!!!!!). All those that contributed direct or indirectly with their critiques, clues, incentive or even admiration :-)

I would like to dedicate this site and my years of hard work to my parents Geraldo Costa and Godiva Martins Costa. They died very young: him at age of 32, her at 55. I love you!