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I did this 3D Sci-Fi city image for a contest. Initially, the idea was to have a view over a futuristic city with a nice progression from the foreground and the city as the far background. I also planned for more air cars. Due to time constraints I ended up making many changes, so the original idea was no longer there. The whole image was created over a 3 weeks period of time, and took me about 230 hours to complete. Everything was modeled and rendered in 3DS MAX 2. All textures were painted in Photoshop.

Suburbs 2100 turned out to be a great success. It was awarded first place at a raytrace competition held at The Party'98 in Denmark. Later, it won an international Fantasy category contest held at the 3D Design & Animation Conference in USA. It was also featured in several magazines, 3D art educational books and was even shown on TV. This must be one of my most popular and successful Scifi images to date.

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Older image comments: Edwin Williams from United States wrote: November 18, 2008 WOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOW!!! This image is so beautiful!!! The texture is mesmerizing!!! This is going to sound like I'm crazy, but I've always dreamed of what a futuristic city would look like, and this is the type of futuristic city I've always imagined. I know you've put in a lot of time and effort with this image, but thank you so much for taking so much time to create such a beautiful image. If I had the money, I'd buy this image in a heartbeat! Heck, I'd buy all of your beautiful images in a heartbeat! YOU ROCK!!! jeannette oliver from cairns, australia wrote: October 20, 2008 good stuff!!!!! britton from usa wrote: September 16, 2008 looks like a lot of people will be homeless you got to predict that our homes will be cleaner and houses not stack on each other Calvin Orosa from Australia wrote: September 15, 2008 The Fifth Element GeorgGurdjieff2 from New Zealand wrote: June 27, 2008 It looks like hell on earth...but an interesting hell on earth. My god, in such a place you could lose your soul and not even know it. jimi j from poland wrote: June 24, 2008 You are genius? or something? Lorax from US wrote: April 20, 2008 I love your work so much. I was even inspired to do a project for school about your works. Keep up the awsome job! Jeramie Griffor from USA wrote: April 10, 2008 Damn impressive, especially for the year it was made. Inventive mind indeed. zach from u.s. wrote: March 5, 2008 WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AMAZING anonymous from Canada wrote: January 12, 2008 This stuff is mindblowing mark orourke from ireland wrote: December 12, 2007 brillant pitures best ones ive seen yet???? Henrik from Denmark wrote: October 25, 2007 I was at that party back in 98. I remember seeing that picture for the first time, damn impressive back then and still holds up today. Unknown from Singapore wrote: September 24, 2007 Pretty impressive... You should try Singapore, and picture it in the next 50 years what it would be from now. JonnzEn from Germany (Schleswig-Holstein -> Rendsburg) wrote: July 31, 2007 Hey this is the nicest sci-fi pic ive ever seen =) I work too with photoshop , and a question appears...how do you do it? hm...could you write tutorials? :D greetings from Germany :) ICE from usa wrote: June 19, 2007 WOW i do really want to be in that kind of time..dat is one of the best i seen, that peace of art just makes me want to be in it. Kodan from Serbia wrote: June 7, 2007 I know for your work, about ten years, if I remember well the time when you exibit your work in Computer Arts. In Bryce you made some very beautiful pictures.I think, you are THAT Michlczyk:-) All the best, Kodan! Mai from USA wrote: May 12, 2007 I bet it took a long time to render... man, you are great. :) DeAdLy_cOoKiE from Europe wrote: May 4, 2007 Amazing art. I always thought this 'suburbs 2100' image and 'future bandits' set the perfect example of how a game should look like. It's been on my harddrive for years. We're getting very close to doing this realtime (Crysis for example). Sean Holder from United States wrote: March 2, 2007 I was very impressed by the composition of the imagery in this picture so that the design itself is easily accessible to the human eye. The earth tones used create a sense of industrial era combined with the sprawling roadway and the minature workers. I am actually attempting to fabricate my own futuristic designs and I find inspiration in images that capture the feeling as this piece does. David from U.S.A wrote: March 2, 2007 It's cool.What if it were the new Tokyo city!!! That would be sweeeeet. DarrellMcBurney from USA wrote: February 13, 2007 wow: what a great picture... I like the conceptual beauty of a sci-fi future. A realistic futuristic world. kaphri from usa wrote: January 5, 2007 this has always been my favorite. I wish you would do some more of these urban pieces. there's just something about them that draws the viewer in. Mesmer from Romania wrote: August 10, 2006 brought back memories from back in 1993 -> recreated the feeling of "flashback" (the adventure game by delphine software) :) absolutely fabulous picture !!! purely awesome !!! THANK YOU :) [mesmer _ myspace.com/mesmer1979] Mike C. from USA wrote: December 22, 2005 This is a great piece of Sci-Fi art! It has been my desktop background for a whole year in 1999. This pic was incredibly impressive when it first came out, it still is, but not nearly as much. A poster would be nice though, a reminder of 3D art of the 90s. Dana Oh! from U S of A! wrote: October 25, 2005 It's definitely interesting for sure. But if that's suburbia in the next century I'm glad I won't be around by then. No offense but where's the grass and trees? anonymous wrote: June 10, 2005 I am one of the few lucky people who downloaded this image in a larger version (from your old site). It is amazing how this image, despite its age, is still one of the best images I have ever seen bering created. Well done. sci-fi buff wrote: May 21, 2005 a nice wallpaper. i like the atmosphere. what size are posters Crimson Larko wrote: May 18, 2001 Truely Amazing... One of the best 3D images I've seen in a while. The Taxi's remind me of the 5th Element... Strange Cargo wrote: May 9, 2001 Compliments on the early morning sunlight falling on the metallic object in the foreground/upper right. That's REAL sun, not a representation. Or so it feels. Kzinwarrior wrote: April 19, 2001 I love how you used large machinery and towers to frame the image and hold the attention of the viewer, while using what looks like a pantograph rail line to give the feeling of something beyond the scene. It gives the improbable scene a sense of realism. Excellent work. ptitcharl wrote: April 7, 2001 WOW!!!!! You ARE good... fantastic work done there!!! I don't usually like the 3D arts because there is no personnages in the drawings and if there are they look messed up, but you got this one straight man!!! I love the surrealistic appearance of the drawing!!!! Keep up the good work!!!! ;) the wrote: March 29, 2001 Quite a picture. I am impressed with all of your work, but I think that this is the best by far. Levente wrote: March 28, 2001 Well,,, Hehe ok trick trick ahh man!!IAm gonna LOUD: HOW THE HELL DID YOU CREATE THAT ENVIROMENT AND tHE OTHER STUFF AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh why cant i create something in max 4?ok ok joke joke,,,,without joke how did you create that......welll iam not asking anything,,anyway because no one can help me iam crying Deadlyscsi wrote: March 4, 2001 *pops eyeballs back into sockets* Er... whoa... Very nicely done. The level of detail... extreme. I love the taxi. Callum Dreamer Zeff wrote: March 3, 2001 well, doubters of flying cars, our technology level has been doubling every two years since the fifties, but once we build thinking computers they'll be doing the thinking. they ARE technology, so they'll be doubling their efficiency every two years. if this continues, we should be upgrading our technology infinitely every two years by the year 2030. scary eh? anyway, I'm afraid I didn't like this picture as much as the others. to me this says "partly abandoned space port with an atmosphere". no hustle and bustle, but it IS a good pic. DonEm wrote: March 3, 2001 Jesus.. One helluva great pic. But eye can't rest on it.. But hell, who cares! 3D isn't the same thing as hand made art, so... (And the one who said that we won't have flying cars in 99 years, hehe, we already do... they just are not for sale yet. They're more like jets though, but they can stay still in air.) Danielle Williams wrote: March 2, 2001 I love the colors in this, it really sets a 'time of day' thing. It's just...neato! Thanks for letting us peek into your imagination! ashley wrote: March 2, 2001 i really like how you've made the future a real place and not some perfect world. :) your attention to detail is really good, too. Micah wrote: March 2, 2001 call me pessamistic but i doubt we will have flying cars in 99 years Emily Sue Rigelsky wrote: March 1, 2001 this really gives me the feeling that i am part of the hussle and bussle of this little city. wonderful attention to detail. you've really given life to this picture. Johan S. R. Nielsen wrote: February 28, 2001 This is really good... One of the best scifi-pics I've seen in a long time... Looks like a realistic version of the cartoon "Futurama"... Marcello Lott wrote: February 28, 2001 STOP THAT TAAAAXXXXXIIIIII!!!!!! Hehehehe.....very good art, keep on! Yohohooo!!! Kimbo wrote: January 17, 2001 What an amazing picture. I really enjoy the attention you've paid to the catenary wires on the railroad tracks! Bein a model railroader, that brought the picture a little closer to me! RAMAP wrote: January 10, 2001 This guy rules the 3D world! Steve wrote: December 14, 2000 Dude, do you work for George Lucas and the Star Wars companies? This is amazing! I'd get a job doing this kind of stuff, cause buddy, this is really great stuff. grmbl (Neon) wrote: November 8, 2000 Hey I know a guy hwo have toaken this picture and says that he have done it. Kirsten Dodt wrote: September 11, 2000 Brillant! You should work as a designer for Cyberpunk RPG! Jim Sharpe wrote: September 4, 2000 You guys viewing these pictures should turn down the brightness, it really adds to the atmospheric quality of the images and enrichens the colours. Chris Andrews wrote: August 8, 2000 HOLY SHIT!!!!!!! Damn your good. How much time must have that taken?????? Delirious wrote: August 5, 2000 Erm....my name is wrong,on the comment above the dude above me!?...Ooops!! Dorsk81 wrote: July 29, 2000 Oh My gosh! This is exactly how i envision the future cities in my sci fi stories... an industrial planet so full of life...i love it! Deleirius wrote: July 3, 2000 WWWHHHAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa(fades to a Homer Simpson...)..GGuugghhhhh...Do more stuff wiv loadsa flying cars Olivia Vega Tan wrote: June 5, 2000 *jaw goes through the floor* I take my other earlier comments back: this picture has the BEST DETAIL I've ever seen, in any sci-fi picture. The textures here are authentic, and even the grease and rust on the bill-boards and the construction work are so realistic. And I agree: you've captured the atmosphere and movement very well. And there are PEOPLE in this picture!! *cheers* Fantastic job, you've taken great care on this one. Well, there isn't anything left to say... I'm speechless! mermaid13 wrote: April 7, 2000 awsome! It made me feel as if i was actually there! Laurent Bothy wrote: January 29, 2000 It's amazing, very impressive. I would like to be able to do masterpieces like this one... really! Nicholas Frederick wrote: January 17, 2000 Woah, that is good! You captured the atmosphere really well, its like I'm there. Just . . . wow. =) Incubus wrote: January 10, 2000 : drool........................... DrAgONcHiC wrote: January 9, 2000 !!!!!!!! You should work for a frikkin gameing company , I would buy ANY game with this kinda artwork john wrote: January 7, 2000 I think this pic is prety cool. It kind of reminds me of the fifth element or back to the future, because of the flying taxi's. Paul wrote: January 1, 2000 I don't understand how one could do this! Exciting!! It must take hours ... Defectiv wrote: December 11, 1999 Could somebody please donate a Cray supercomputer to this guy, man, this shit is BRILLIANT! Makes me want to remove 3ds from my pc, coz this makes my shit look like...ehhh...SHIT! Lance Willard Card wrote: November 10, 1999 I said it once and I'll say it again, if you're not working for a video game company then you're missing your lot in life. Trust me, I've worked for one and they could definitely use your skills. ZION wrote: November 8, 1999 These techno futuristic worlds are increadible! THEY NEED TO BE SEEN ON THE BIG SCREEN!!! Henk wrote: November 6, 1999 AAAAAOOOOUUUCHHH!!!! My as! the image kicked it! Damn your good!¡!¡! anonymous wrote: October 28, 1999 This picture is TOTALLY THE GREATEST OF ´EM ALL! YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! KEEP UP THE FAAAAAAAAAANTASTIC WORK MAN! The Dreamer wrote: October 12, 1999 Now why can't things be like that now? link wrote: October 5, 1999 Wow! It reminds me of The Fifth Element. Love it! Liz Chesterman wrote: August 9, 1999 Whoa.. quite impressive! Again you have excellent perspective, and it all looks so real as well. Wonderful colors, the contrasting orange/gold and blue is simply a beautiful combination. Anton Tokar wrote: August 9, 1999 Its awesome <squander off in shame