My upcoming products include a set of photo-realistic construction materials, military-grade digital camouflage and some fine stone textures. Those products will be available for Autodesk 3D Studio MAX and Poser.

To make things short, DHL lost and destroyed (literally) my main workstation in 2006, and I still remember that day. It took me a month and a half to recover from this event in terms of machine-hours, some of my artwork was lost forever, and they never paid me a dime for the damages. I'll only advise you to read carefully your contract before sending anything with them. Of just avoid using them, if your shipment contains something of value.

This month I would love to showcase the photography of Leslee Lane, she's a terrific artist from our community who delivers a sense of strength lined with tenderness in an unbeatable combination. Be sure to visit her gallery at Sublimelmf.

Silver Moon Publishing

(UK) will be publishing my upcoming graphic novel (still with just a working title that promises to deliver 60 pages of fun) as well as my participation in an 3D art book that will feature 5 other artists from Renderotica. There's also a monthy 32-pages Sci-Fi comic book of mine soon to be published in the UK, so stay tuned for more news on this subject. Most of these projects have been delayed because of my workload and a break up, but are still in the works.

Previous episodes of my noir comic Eternal Minuet are available in past issues of Renderotica Magazine. So far, you can get all 6 released episodes there... or you just can wait for the paperback version to be released in late 2009.

Visit the site and store of my good friend Yanelis Barros. You will enjoy her selection of Poser textures and clothing for V3 and V4.

Something must be done regarding an old illness of this site: the Professional Commenter. The profile of such person is a very simple one. This character is someone whose only contribution to the community is just a significant amount of comments and nevertheless features a personal gallery without any deviation on it, or someone who comments on a tone that ranges from offensive to dogmatic, without any meaningful body of works on her/his gallery on the subject he/she is commenting. This trend was very notorious in past years, and has ceased somewhat, but it's still omnipresent, lurking under the surface. Even when I'm aware that everybody is entitled to express an opinion, it's also plain to see that this site isn't a school of arts, where you must be constrained into a rigid mind frame that must be followed. If we're not allowed to express ourselves freely, without the fear of being harshly attacked by some wanna-be critic, this place will become more of a mine field, and less of a community.

There's also something important bothering my mind lately, regarding this fine community: the increasing amount of campy deviations that end up as Daily Deviations just because they happened to appeal to the powers-that-be. It's important to remember that those involved in the selection of those deviations must look at them in a detached, objective way, keeping in their minds that not everybody enjoys fetish or nude photos, stock photography or adult-oriented photography. Most of the users in this site are under 18, and as strange as it sounds coming from an adult-oriented artist, I would like to express my deep personal disappointment at those selections. The powers-that-be must keep in mind that this community is broader, and be objective, keep their personal tastes aside in the choices to be made, and if there's not a good-enough deviation to select for this award (that has become meaningless, in many ways), then don't select anything that day. You don't have to... keep that in your thoughts.

My father Prof. José Z. Terán has a wonderful book about the town in the northeast of México where my ancestors have lived for generations. It's entitled "San Carlos: La Huella De Los Tiempos" (San Carlos: The Track Of Times) and it's right now in its Third Printing. It deals with both historical and human facts on how that community has grown in hundreds of years since the Spanish era. It's also about my roots, and I'm so proud on how my father has worked on this for over a decade, and how I have his legacy to carry on. This book includes some beautiful landscapes that are now posted here at DeviantART for viewing in post-card style in my gallery and also available as prints. The latest edition of the book was released in December 15, 2006. My father's new book, "La Tierra En Que Nací" (The Land Where I Was Born) captures the evolution of my family over centuries and captures his personal view of the small town in northeast México from the stand point of view of a loving son who cherishes his roots. Some of the pictures featured on that book will soon be posted in my gallery in post-card style, also available as prints.

If you have a specific question, or a request or idea for a graphic, please feel free to send me a note at any time. I'm open to ideas and suggestions.

No, I'm not into 3D contests and I don't create commissioned art. I'm quite open for collaborations.

Visit this wonderful graphics that some talented artists have dedicated to me. It's an honor and a pleasure, and I'm deeply grateful of it: Come Into My World by *anelia, For Carlos Teran by ~ligreego, Little Doll by ~katzmeow, and To Carlos-Teran by =SelfMadeQueen. This section used to have more deviations, but many artist have been deleting their galleries for good, and that's a shame.

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