My name is Marco Penndorf, also known as „froyd“ in some forums and games. I was born in Weissenfels, in the eastern part of Germany (former GDR), in 1977. I loved to draw since I was a kid, after I saw what my cousin was able to do with a pencil. My CG time started when I bought a Commodore Amiga. I tried to emulate the big gfxers, who made such great artwork inside the demos and games. DeluxePaint was my favourite tool and somehow I got into the demoscene. I was gfxer for the groups "tribe" and later "neoplasia", met some great people.

1996 I graduated from high school and qualified as management assistant in real estate, though I never really did that job. My boss patronized my creativity and I was responsible for the company's website, learned HTML and some PHP for that task. Additionally I made all the advertisement, incl. flyer, placards and also cinema ads. Later I had almost the same job at a quite big car dealer and was in charge for branches in Halle, Leipzig, Dresden and Koethen.

In the meantime I got into 3D, but made little progress. That changed when I bought Zbrush v1.55 in 2003. I was able to skip some obstacles, the responsive nature it has and that I missed before, helped alot to get into modeling. Over time I learned all the technical aspects, tried out many different tools and techniques and even finished some of my wips :)

Today I use Silo as a slick companion of ZBrush and I wrote Modo on my whishlist, because I really love the renderer. I don't follow a special subject or theme in my work, my inspiration comes from a lot sources. In the links-section you can find a list of artists, whose work I really love and admire. Explore my gallery and feel free to contact me:



Marco Penndorf
Kleine Deichstrasse 19
06667 Weissenfels
Germany

email: me@froyd3d.de
ICQ: 329323933
IRC: quakenet/#zbrush