Øyvind Fiksdal (A.K.A Ice)

My name is Øyvind Fiksdal and I am a 3D Generalist and Concept artist. I have my background in traditional art, but have moved on to the digital world I am currently studying 3D Design at "Idefagskolen"

I have always had an undying love for creating any form of art, but the last few years it has been leaning more to game creation. I have now landed my first job as concept designer at Yes-Games.

My main interest is concept art and character creation. I Also enjoy doing props, but I prefer anything with a bit of a challenge.

Email me at oeyvindfiksdal@yahoo.no

2D; I am mainly using Photoshop and has used it since 1997 and can say that I am quite proficient in the software. I also use a bit of Painter and Art Rage, but that is more for the experimental work.

3D; Currently I am studying Maya for general 3D, but I am a previous user of 3DS Max, cinema 4D and Blender I am in all ways a generalist and do everything from modeling, texturing, rigging, animating and high poly sculpting in Zbrush I have also worked a bit with After Effects for video editing and compositing

I have as previously mentioned a background in traditional art and studied it for 3 years. Since then i moved on to digital art and were self taught in numerous applications like Photoshop, 3DS Max, Zbrush, After Effects, Cool Edit, Art Rage, Blender, Cinema 4D, 3D Coat, Topogun and Dreamweaver. I have this year desided to take a course in 3D Design to learn a bit more about animating, rigging and skinning. We study Maya as our main application.

Since i started my education i have been hired by Yes-Games as their leading concept artist. Beside that I will be using this year to pick up on the areas I feel lacking and develop a proper demo reel.