Steven Stahlberg was chosen as Maya Master for 2005. He is 46
years old, and is internationally acknowledged as one of the
world's best CG artists. Two of his most prominent 3D artworks are
the virtual supermodel "Webbie Tookay", who was sponsored by Elite
Models back in 1999, and the picture "One Last Time" (AKA "Fairy
and Snake") that was given an award in the global successful EXPOSÉ
1 book where it also was the cover image.
Steven Stahlberg has worked with computer graphics for more than a
decade, and is now art director and the head of 3D animation of The
Virtual Talent Studio; Androidblues. Furthermore he is an artist,
illustrator and animator.
About Steven's background and career until now Steven himself
says:
"Education: 3 years of art school (no cg school), after which I
worked for 10 years as an illustrator. I've also spent about 11
years in computer graphics. I got my first fulltime cg job
1996.
I've worked for Digital Anvil, on Electronic Art games NSFU,
Defjam Smackdown, the Sims and others; on Disney's Rapunzel; on the
animated feature film 'Anne Frank - A life to remember', and on an
animated TV series".
Steven Stahlberg works with MAYA from AliaslWavefront.
Recently Steven has designed a picture especially for TRUEMAX -
check it out in the gallery below (the first picture, top
left).