In February I e-mailed Italian graphic artist Fabrizio Fioretti [1] about a couple Ghostbusters images I had seen floating around the internet forums. The images were created in 3D, and can only be described as a Pixar-like adaptation of the Ghostbusters characters we know and love. Check out the designs after the jump. [gallery columns="2"] Fioretti told me that there were "no particular reasons" why he decided to create CGI versions of the Ghostbusters other than being "a big fan and I haven't seen anybody doing it (in CG) so far..." Here is an excerpt from my e-mail conversation with Fioretti: It's a personal project, took me long time as I could work on it only in the evening and weekends. I 've also done everything on my own (design, modelling, texturing, lighting, rendering...etc...). I don't have any further plan at the moment as an animation would take a time or more time, which I don't have... Maybe some other GBs images...maybe. :) From a technical point of view, I used 3D and 2D softwares like Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop and Nuke. I come from Italy but moved to London 4 years ago. I worked in advertisement for a long time (as you can see from my professional portfolio) and I recently joined Bluebolt, a visual effects company, working for TV and Film industry. You can find more of Fioretti's work on his website kip3d.net [2]. [1] http://www.kip3d.net/ [2] http://www.kip3d.net/

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