Artist Ray Ceaser trades in paints and brushes for Maya 3D Software

"For me the computer is a perfect tool to work intuitively," says Caesar who originally got his start in film animation and builds each piece as a complete 3D environment. "Nothing is concrete and set in stone and I can change things as I need to, even if I have almost completed the image. A brush or pencil is the extension of a hand and eye, a motion of the arm and a judgment of space and negative space; the computer does this as well as any tool and in some ways I can get inside my tool."

The knock on most digital art is that it's often built from pre-existing imagery, but Maya forces Caesar to use many of the same skills needed for most traditional artwork. "The work he does, and how he builds it, you can't create that without being able to paint or draw it in the first place," says Levine. "It's an incredibly technical and time-consuming process. He's pioneered a new way of making art. His work is informed by traditional methods and styles but executed with new tools."

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