who and what is [dbki]?

dbki is just a handle for our group, we use this for every (mostly) non commercial project. dbki was formerly formed as a quake 3 clan (buh, sure, we play this game) and since we don't have the time for clan games we use this name for our projects. the logo was created in a hurry, just some hours befor we started to go to 'the party' and now it's my (da_duke) and our permanent long time project ;-). currently, we are 3 main members and for special projects like the 'yellow 3d' we have part time members, working for more than one group. but why all this stuff about a group? it's common in the european computer scene to bundle individuals to groups for working on bigger projects.
since we have to pay for our flat and our food we work as freelancers. we doing 3d stuff for other companies. for example we work for game companies, advertising bureaus, industrial documentations and such stuff.
our range covers the creation of single objects/photos/textures/pictures up to complete productions of short movies/visualization/webpages. this includes modeling, texturing, animation and rendering. but we are also able to create 2d graphics like technical drawings, ground planes and similar things. that's not all, we are photographs too, especially for industry (documentation), estate brokers, other product photo's and complete texture themes for games and such things.

current staff/members:

daniel aka da_duke: main skills: 3d modeling, photography, hdri, rendering, 2d graphics hobbies: fun sport (inline skating, martial arts, mountain biking, swimming), computer games (classical, pc, xbox), books (umpf, not enough time for that), music favourite movies: fight club, pulp fiction, natural born killers, fear and loathing in las vegas favourite series: the simpsons, dragonball z, dragonball gt favourite music: drum'n'bass (konflikt, amon tobin etc), trance (astral projection, delerium ...), rock (manson, clawfinger, theatre of tragedy ...), ebm (front 242, flesh field, stromkern), c64 remixes favourite clothes: black ;-), no special brands except shoes - 'new rock' projects: look below current location: germany download cv here (english) project list (english) Projektliste (deutsch)
petra aka meerdattel: main skills: communication & (mass) media: short movies, radio, tv, newspaper, video, public relations / sociology: divergent behavior, media pedagogics, statistics / graphic: 2d-graphics, texturing, webdesign hobbies: animals, collecting stones and chestnuts, swimming, reading, inline skating, photographing favourite movies: fried green tomatoes, gripsholm, pulp fiction, le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain favourite music: independent music, but rather the old stuff (cure, siouxsie & the banshees, joy division, anne clark, hagalaz runedance, dead can dance...) download cv here (german)
dirk aka olbi: main skills: get new skills download cv here (german)

awards, prizes, features:

1st place at 'dialogos' - visual design

2n place at 'dialogos' - raytrace competition

1st place at 'the party' - raytrace competition

1st place at 'mekka symposium' - wild compo (short animation)

3rd place at 'animago award' - professional product design (germany)

platinum award at 3dcafe.com, februar 2002 gallery

news message at newtek.com about new gallery entries

essay of our texture cd 'materials vol.1' at the design and graphic magazine 'page' (german)

front page image for the german graphic magazine 'desktop dialog'

artist of the month at 'eye.box.sk'

interview at newtek-europe.com