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My name is Sebastien Hue aka Shue13, I'm from France and live in Paris' suburb. I'm a self-taught digital artist and the author, composer of my own metal band called 13-Digits I founded in January 2008. Coming from a long way in graphics, I first developed my skills around logo design for the band and then for others. Web design came to me as well since we had to entirely design our myspace page to attract some fans and have something solid for the project. So I made some banners presenting the band, tried to compose some artworks integrating our logo and played mostly around photomanipulation thanks to different tutorials I found in magazines or on the net. Read Less

In the beginning of 2009, I really started discovering in deep what could be done with photoshop in terms of design; painting, manipulation, and then I practised more and more and feed my curiousity wherever I could. When I discovered matte painting type of art and what great masters like Dylan Cole, Dusso and many mores, were actually capable of doing in this genre, I was like shocked and decided to go into this particular field that looked pretty hard but so furnished. I became like a sponge to train myself and learn from them whatever I could get with tutorials, videos, books and images to understand and apply decent matte techniques onto my artworks.

Developing my network mostly on DeviantArt and continuing training myself on matte painting but with a lot of interest in space art and science-fiction as well, I received my first reward on dA with a Daily Deviation on Sept 21st, 2010 on a sci-fi matte painting 'Sailing Over The Beam'. On December 20th, 2010, I got my second DD on a space art called 'Organic Lights'.

On February 2011, I decided to apply to the international Art Collective that really inspired me the most 'The Luminarium' and got accepted as an artist which considerably boosted my motivation, skills and exposition of my art. During this year, I was given the chance to become a staff member and holding such a position gave me more and more confidence and strength to move forward and go beyond photoshop to the next level in the learning of 3D programs like Vue and 3DSmax. In parallel, I got my third Daily deviation on Sept 5th, 2011 with a terraspace piece called 'Toxic Mountains' using my new skills with Vue plates render and Photoshop. Getting published in France with Oracom and its magazine Advanced Creation Photoshop, my network grew up more and more throughout social networks like Facebook, Shadowness, Behance and Deviantart and my art became more and more accurate, looked much refined and interesting for viewers and watchers. Read Less

2012 started with another Daily Deviation on February 14th on a digital painting I made from skratch called 'The Haunted Station' rewarding my hard work on digitally painting things without necessarily using plates or stocks as a backdrop or model.I also came with a new piece 'Terminal 13' that mixed complex Vue structures modeling with a huge postwork in Photoshop. This picture seemed to be a turning point in my personal CG route and how other artists and viewers perceived and judged my work as this image really drew a lot of attention and enthousiasm around me from people and magazines. Thus I got published in the UK with several 3D mags like 3D World in April and 3D Artist in July. Lastly I got my fifth Daily Deviation reward for this piece on September 9th and I kept going forward in making artworks and training on Zbrush and developing my drawing skills.

The year ended up with a very interesting proposition, to enroll into a film project team from Sweden and make for them an entire city in 3DSmax for a scene. This would be a one-year project and probably my biggest one so far in 2013 with a good start as I made the cover for the french magazine Advanced Creation Photoshop on January and the UK Advanced Photoshop on February with a commissioned tutorial and a special artwork for Imagine Publishing.
Next year would probably be another turning point in my professionnal carreer, thinking about becoming professional in the field, another publication is in the pipeline with Focal Press and the book from Duncan Evans, 3D Landscapes to be out on next January 2014.
To Be Continued... Read Less