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3dTotal: Hi Marek, thanks for your time. Can we start off with just a quick introduction and a bit about yourself for the readers, please?
Marek: My name is Marek Denko. I was born in 1980 in a small town in the central part of the Slovak Republic. I’ve been interested in many different forms of art since I was a child, when I did painting, drawing, played the guitar and even tried to compose music. When I was attending high school in the historic city of Banska Stiavnica, my mother bought me my first personal computer and it wasn’t long |
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before I started to discover the secrets of computer graphics. I went on to study at Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic and after I graduated I got married. During my studies I also started to work with several companies doing CG in the Czech Republic. This was followed by a move to Italy, where I worked on the CG movie, Dear Anne, The Gift of Hope. After my son was born, I decided to work as a freelancer from home, so that I could see him grow up and spend more time with my family. Nowadays, I'm living in Prague running a studio, NoEmotion with Peter Sanitra.
3DTotal: What are the main differences going from studio work to working from home, in terms of finances, motivation and self-discipline?
Marek: I get to spend more time with my family; I get to decide what I work on and how much time I spend on what … I’m being careful with my schedule, looking for freelance work and so on. Everything has positive and negative sides – nothing is just black or white. But for now, I’m happy at home. Maybe in two months time I’ll be somewhere in a studio with lot of people around – who knows? |
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3DTotal: You have so many great images which have been published in different CG books and galleries. Which ones really stand out for you, and why?
Marek: Thank you. It’s not an easy question to answer, to be honest. Each of my images is connected to a particular time in my life, so each one is special in some way. But if you really force me to choose one, it would be Street of Memories. I put more from my personal life into this one than people realise. It contains lots of elements that reflect the times and places from my life.
3DTotal: So would you say your personal gallery is almost a way of expressing a diary of things that have happened in your life?
Marek:Some of them, yes – but I wouldn’t call it a “diary”. When I look at my images I know exactly what I was doing at the time when I was creating them; I know where I lived, what music I was listening to, what projects we were working on at the studio, etc.
3DTotal: What has been your greatest artistic achievement in your life so far? |
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Marek: My little son, of course! You know, I never think that way ... artistic achievement … I really don’t
know what to say. If you asked me about my career achievement it would be that I was chosen as the Autodesk 3ds Max Master 2007, or that Blur Studio and ILM invited me to work for them. These things
have been a huge honour for me. |
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