Ray Caesar: Digital Illustrations

Ray Caesar is an artist from Toronto, with gallery representation in Philadelphia. He creates his images in the program Maya. Here's a little note about his method

My work is entirely digital, from its creation to its method of printing. I create models in a three dimensional modeling software and cover these models with painted and manipulated photographic textures that wrap around them like a map on a globe. Each model is then set up with a invisible skeleton that allows me to pose and position the figure in its three dimensional environment. Digital lights and cameras are added with shadows and reflections simulating that of a real world.

Here's what Caesar has to say about the inspiration behind his method.

For 17 years I worked in the Art and Photography Department of The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto. I worked in a department that documented such things as child abuse, surgical reconstruction, psychology and animal research. They were years that I will never forget, years of witnessing great sadness but also great miracles.

I often awake in the middle of the night and realize I have been wondering the hallways and corridors of that giant hospital. As I lay there in the dark, I struggle to remember the fading words of those that still haunt my memories of so many years ago. It is so clear to me that this is the birthplace of all my imagery.

It is appropriate that I now live my dreams for those that didn't get a chance to live theirs.... to do otherwise would be a sin.

Ray Caesar

Ray Caesar's Website

Gallery Representation

Maya Software Package

Comments

[brian]

I really love this guys work! I wish I had the cash to buy some or maybe he could come out with a book huh?

[sörge]

you can read a big story about ray caesar at the artlout magazine.

[Skylark]

Ive almost followed over 45 different webistes just to know more about him!{stalkish,no} His an inspiartion to my own art style and achievement in the future artworld.
I hope he becomes well known in the field of pop-surrealism and contemporary art, as he deserves all the credit he can get ~