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Name: Rio Febrian
Age: 28
Job: CEO and CG Artist at Rio Febrian Studio
Country: Indonesia
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Online portfolio: www.coroflot.com/riofebrian
3DA: How did you start working in 3D field? How much time has been passed and what kind of studies did you do?
RF: I started to become a part of this archviz industry since 2008, when I was a fresh graduate from Visual Communication Design concentration in a State University of Malang, Indonesia. I worked as a 3D artist in an architecture consultant at Bali, Indonesia, for about 4 years. And now since the beginning of 2012 I started my own studio, specialized in architectural and interior visualization.
3DA: Which are your favourite software and plugins for your daily projects?
RF: Since I start working in 3D architectural visualization, I always use 3ds Max as the main 3D software. Plugins that I used for 3ds Max are: Vray (as render engine), multiscatter, multitexture, and Batzal Roof Designer. Scripts that I usually use are: RelinkBitmap, FloorGenerator, and CopyPaste script. For post-production I use Photoshop. Plugins that I use for Photoshop are: MagicBullet PhotoLooks and Red Giant Knoll Light Factory.
3DA: Tell us something about a project that gave you great satisfactions
RF: Project that give me a most great satisfaction is Siek Box House, that was a project for a challenge at Facebook group called “3D Render Party” and I won that challenge. Once I published that work on cgarchitect, Jeff Mottle (CEO of cgarchitect) asked me to make an article about it. And it was published on March this year on ‘features’ menu in that website
3DA: From where do you take ispiration for your artworks?
RF: There is many website and page that always give us good references and inspirations: www.evermotion.org, www.cgarchitect.com, www.ronenbekerman.com, www.cgrecord.net, www.facebook.com/VrayWorkshop, www.facebook.com/CGRecord.net, www.archdaily.com. On those website I usually take inspirations, they are very useful. And there is some forum or Facebook group that let us share or showcase our works: Evermotion forum, www.cgarchitect.com, www.cgworkshop.org, Ronen Bekerman forum, Vray Workshop Facebook group, Kampoeng 3D Facebook group, www.cgramp.com, and www.cg-space.com.
3DA: How do you live this period of economic crisis? How is it in your country?
RF: This industry is growing very fast. We have to move fast also to survive in this industry. We have to be up to date and keep developing in order to not to be left behind. In this economic crisis, reputation is very important, if we can keep our quality to client satisfactions, then they will keep the business relationship. As I know, this economic crisis nowadays is not really influencing Indonesia. But I always try to develop more so that we can grow to be one of architectural visualization company in international level.
3DA: What would you suggest to people that are approaching to 3D and architecture?
RF: For them who approaching to this industry, as everybody else will say, keep learning and bring up your quality, more and more. As I said before, this industry is growing very fast and we have to move quickly in order to not to be left behind. There is thousands of online tutorials that we can get easily, learn from the best to become one of them. Every artist was first a beginner, so love what you do because we can’t do anything without love.
