I'm attempting - so far with little success - to photograph my oil paintings and drawings (they are way to big to scan).
Until I figure out how to do that properly, I'll post some of the things I make while dicking around in 3D programmes.
Some of you will already have seen the stuff I do for a living. To get those results requires a lot of failed experiments.
These start off as felt pen sketches, then get worked up on the Mac into the kind of stuff you see here. Then the real fun begins.
Making the actual models in 3D is only half the battle. Getting light, textures, water, glass, metals, reflections, etc. right takes lots and lots of time and not a little jumping up and down and swearing.
These are a couple of the experiments I did a few years back on "how to get water right in 3D". It's pretty easy in most 3D programmes to make spaceships and sci-fi stuff and crap like that, but to make something which can fool the eye into thinking it is real is frustratingly difficult.
This one was just a simple exercise in trying to balance reflections, refraction, light on the water and transparency.
And this one was trying to get still water right, while experimenting with rock textures.
The things I really like doing in 3D are abstracts. This one was a series of geometric shapes made from glass and metal which I tortured for a bit, then shone coloured lights onto (hey, it was a rainy weekend). The result reminds me of the generators on "Forbidden Planet".
I'll try to dig up something more adventurous later (most of this stuff is scattered across several old computers with none too helpful numbers instead of titles … I've always been crap at filing).
8 comments:
I love the water images, especially the still water with the rocks. You really do have to know something about the workings of light and reflections to create these things. Very nice. Show more.
I also like the term "art circle." I've always wanted to be part of a drum circle, so maybe the art version can be a fair substitute.
Thanks, Robyn. Art Circle it is then.
By the way, what's a drum circle?
Over here it would be the pool of dribble surrounding Chris, our drummer.
Cheap drummer jokes:
Q: What do you call someone who hangs around with musicians?
A: A drummer.
Q: What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?
A: You only have to punch the rhythm into a drum machine once.
Sorry Chris, but you know it's true …
Consider me in!
I've searched some old pics and I will begin to upload to my blog some images done in a variety of styles, this could be interesting.
I think "ART ELLIPSE" would be more appropriate, thinking of some of the Odd things that we both produce!!
( defn: Like a stretched circle with slightly longer, flatter sides ), how appropriate ?!?
Now you're talking!
Though with your imagination, perhaps not so much a circle or an ellipse, but more the kind of thing a three-legged space-monkey on acid might produce with a Spirograph …
I'm off home now. I'll check in later.
A drum circle is a "circle" of percussions who perform often just for each other--sometimes jamming and sometimes with learned cadences. My friend who is a drummer and one of my daughters music teachers wrote a drum circle line for the percussion section at our high school. They used big plastic barrels, smaller plastic barrels, metal garbage cans, and miscellanious car parts attached to stands. It's amazing.
So, we have an art circle, but I'm only a doodler at this stage. I better get to work on some actual "art." Yikes, what have we started?
Drum circle sounds fun!
And I think our Art Circle is a prompt for both of us to get the paints out.
I think Sassy should show some of her punk rock knitting, too.
Ooooh. I love these. I only have a couple of seconds to comment, but I'm going to look again. Very nice.
Drum circles are great. I'd probably be better at that than an art circle (I can post pottery, but I can't paint for shit).
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