André Holzmeister

www.animation.art.br

Since childhood André Holzmeister has been sketching away at comics and toon characters to hone his skills as an artist. Now a few years older he can take them off the page and bring them to CG life through modeling and animation. André Holzmeister works at TV Globo the largest entertainment broadcast company in Brazil as a senior 3D animator. His art has been featured on 3D Total.com, DigitMag.com, Highend 3D.com, 3D Creative.com. He's also been interviewed by Digital tutor, Digital Designer Magazine and CG Art.com.br and now by us. We spoke with Andre about working at TV Globo, and what 3D means to him as an artist and a generalist.

By Paul*PabloGrca*Hutchens

SQ – Thank you for speaking with us Mr. Holzmeister. First off, can you tell us a little bit about yourself, where were you born and when did you become interested in art and computers? I was born in Vitória, Brazil. I’ve always liked to draw since I was a little boy, I was always drawing comics. When I became a little older I got a computer and started to play around with painting packages like Aldus Photostyler and later on photoshop. I bough a copy of 3D Studio Max r4 for DOS, and started to learn how 3D software works, that was the start of my journey.

SQ – Tell us a little bit about your background in 3D? I work mainly with 3Dsmax, for producing many kinds of work, manly for Broadcast, but I also worked for film and game promos. My main focus is character design and character animation. I also work with zbrush and mudbox, and know a little of XSI and Maya.

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