Станислав Клабик: "Если талант есть, ты будешь на голову выше всех, кто закончил школы CG"

Оригинальное интервью со Станиславом Клабиком:

M3D: How did you come up with the idea of becoming a CG artist?

Stanislav Klabík: I never thought about becoming a Cg artist, I started during the school holidays when I hadn´t nothing to do, I was a bit bored so I installed 3dsmax which my brother had and started to do "3D something" and in next days I was really surprised by the fun from doing 3D stuff.

M3D: Is CG your main job? What company do you work for? What does it do?

Stanislav Klabík: Yes, CG is my main job, I hadn´t company, I work as a 3D/2D freelancer, so I work for everyone who needs some CG stuff.

M3D: What area of CG do you focus on in your work (modeling, texturing, animation, etc.)? What software do you prefer for your work? And what do you have to work with most often?

Stanislav Klabík:  I can´t say that I am focused on something, the only CG stuff which I don´t do at this time is rigging and advanced animation, except this I do everything. I work mainly with 3dsmax, Mudbox, Photoshop, Vray, Mental Ray, then I work sometimes with other software which is needed.

M3D: Where did you study 3D?

Stanislav Klabík:  I didn´t study CG, I am completely self - taught, I think that if you don´t have a talent, the school can´t help you at all, but on the other side, if you have a talent you can be much better then the other peoples who studied at CG schools.

I know from CG websites several great artists who are self - taught and they are great even without schools and of course I know really lot of artists who will not be as great as these peoples despite of having some CG schools. My opinion is, that school isn´t important for doing CG, you must proof your skills through your works not through some degrees, because school degree tells nothing about what you really can.

M3D: What aspects of 3D do you focus on now in your work (what skills you wish to improve or maybe you're looking into changing your CG specialization)?

Stanislav Klabík:  Well, from what I do now I am propably focused on characters, but I began with focus on architecture and visulisatons, because at the begining I found characters a bit boring, but I was completely wrong, now I am not focused on some specific stuff at all, I always do what I want to do, so if I would like to do some character then I do character, if I think that will be fun to do some architecture then I do architecture. I propably can´t change my specialization, because I do everything : ) Don´t know what skills can be improved, because you can never reach the top, your skills can be always improved. I found that the best method how to improve my skills is to do the new stuff with the new elements or to do a project which is more complicated than the previous projects, some stuff which needs to learn new things for, so I am improving my skills through the new projects which must contain some new challanges. The worst thing which you can do is to do the same stuff again and again, but this is problem of majority of artists.