Gare lthis part has me at a loss. What is it? I know what a Kneaded Eraser is, but for Windows users?
"Artcraft Kneaded Eraser for Windows users"
Like the fish.
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Gare lthis part has me at a loss. What is it? I know what a Kneaded Eraser is, but for Windows users?
"Artcraft Kneaded Eraser for Windows users"
Like the fish.
This one is for you, Larry. I call it The Magician.
Not to be confused with The Musician, which is I. :)
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Thank you Gare.
I think maybe the magician is you, Gary.
Oh, if you ever saw (or didn't see) Larry's card tricks, you'd know he's the Resident Magician around this neck of the woods.
Me, I'm sort of in the Entertainment Industry:
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Occasionally (okay, most of the time!), I''ll get fixated on an iconic representation of something, not unlike Andy Warhol did with his silk screens of the Campbell's soup can. I did a Coke can (because I don't think anyone had iconized it in Pop Art yet) 20 years ago with available processing and software, and then revisited the icon this year.
To my disappointment, there wasn't a "day and night" difference! I've not grown as an artist in 20 years?!
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Sigh. Oh, well, the soda's probably gone flat after all this time, anyhow.
-g
Love Gary World. Not a bad place to be in.
Wow! Gary, the pop can looks special with that water droplet the icing on the cake.
I finally got XAOS|tools to work under Win 7:
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A photo I painted over in Painter.
Notice that I don't always wash out my coffee mugs...
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Happy 2016 everyone,
Gary
That's not a coffee mug, it's a black-hole!
Keeps all that fine flavour in it. :)
I spent a lot of time modeling the cookie down to the last detail, but the rendering engine I was using in 1994 sucked.
So I filter the pic and now it looks like a painting that sucks:
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Gary
Now everyone on TG is hungry, Gary.
Please send Oreos!
Never mind the biscuit, great avatar.
I did this for Luxology, back before they were acquired by The Foundry. It was for a product that you could use with images to "paint" a seamless tiling image, unlike most texture programs...
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My Best,
Gary
Great looking work, Gary. I especially like those chrome weiners.
Thanks for that, Graham!
I must say that my inspiration for the chrome weenies piece was the Fourth of July in Manhattan years and years ago. All these Sabrett stands were cued up—these snack carts that sell franks and soda and stuff—and their visual trademark is yellow and red stripes (probably symbolizing ketchup and mustard).
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Anyhow, at that time, it was just about the Death of the Chrome Bumper on American cars.
And people were beginning to become self-conscious about their intake of nitrites, so the piece is a flashback to the 1970s commemorating two distinctly American things mashed up into dreamy clouds.
My Best,
Gary
Here's another American icon...okay, okay, car lovers all over the world can share a vintage Corvette,,,:)
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(it's photography, and Photoshop)
Not only a vintage Corvette but one that can levitate as well, and yes, memories of sitting in the back of a 1953 Buick Roadmaster eating a hot dog in the early 50's. Life couldn't get any better.
Yes, life could, Graham. You know what American kids used to do in the back seat of a sports car?
Okay; sorry. This is a family website.
On the other hand, how do you start a family?
You're far too nice to me, Graham. People are gong to start wondering how much I pay you.
My Best,
Gary
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I used to go here as a kid, but I heard they're tearing the place down.
Okay, behind the scenes, I asked a woman at a Burger King drive-thru to hoke it up and pose for me, then composited the photo into a photo I took of a Dunkin' Donuts someone was demolishing.
I guess they didn't like the coffee...
I'd say that was one potent cup of coffee.
Speaking of pay, I'm still waiting for that cheque you promised me was in the mail. :)
You know, I could be dishonest and tell you that I just plain forgot, but the truth is that I thought you got my email about that, Graham. It came back with not enough postage because I didn't realize that Vancouver was in Canada. So I put 30’ (2’ Canadian) on the envelope and personally handed it to the male man; sorry..."person person".
He told me he's deliver it just as soon as the Sold sign goes up on our front lawn.
Patience will pay off in the long run.
Trust it.
-g
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As soon as we hit some decent temperatures here in the North East, and Spring scents the air, Barbara told me I could install one of these suckers on the front lawn:
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-g
"Patience will pay off in the long run."
Patience almost never pays off, it just makes you old and grumpy!
Now if you only had a 3D printer you could create that fishy fountain.
Oooh, that's a good one! May I quote you on that? Actually, I already did.
That quote is a kissing cousin to the one I like to proffer:
"Stress is the confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of a jerk who desperately deserves." At least that's the sanitized, SFW version.
Full size?
I'd prefer to model a miniature me, and let me visit the pond in Cinema 4D.
Shades of "Tron"! Woah!
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This is what a child's shell collection at the beach would look like, if this wasn't Earth.
-g
I've seen a human head scanned and then printed out in 3D. A bit scary to say the least.
The shell collection conjures up quite the image.
I've never seen the actual process, Graham, but I see that a high-res human scan goes for around $10 on the web. You can only buy the product; you can't specificity which head you want scanned, although Donald Trump's might go for $2, I think.
I used XenoDream to model the alien seashells, and Maxwell Render to produce the scene. Some people don't feel the rendering engine makes any difference with the final product. I disagree: here's a render out of PIXAR RenderMan in 1995 upper-left, and then basically the same model rendered out of Maxwell Render in 2008. It has nuances, atmosphere, and doesn't exaggerate the specular reflections in plastic or metal:
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There's a big difference between those two renders. I'll pass on Trumps head. :)
I did this using Extreme 3D, a product by the late, great Macromedia. The engineers loved it, but asked me to make the flame hotter, "butt-burning red", as I quote them precisely.
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Oh, Gosh, I looked at the file date...20 years ago?!
Help!
-g
Graeme is a nice, fellow and all that, but he wanted an image-heavy, content-light website, and the creative group I worked with agreed that a lot of Photoshopping Graeme's head on CG bodies would pull the whole site together. And it was fun thinking up and creating all of Graeme's characters:
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Hi Gare, I came across one of your tutorials it was logo in the shape of an egg with a couple of ellipses cut out which created an nice shiny "E" shape - I have just upgraded to X11 and would like to try it out but I can't find it! do you have a list of all your tutorials? - Best Regards Geoff H
Hi Geoff—
Here is the repository of my video tutorials. Frances Proctor stepped in and has a tutorial on this list, too.
Here is the 2012 to 2015 repository of written tutorials of which there are several guest tutorials written by our talented membership, such as Frances, Bob Taylor, Paul, Rik Datta and others.
Now, these are only links to my stewardship of The Xara Xone; Gary Priester put the original 15+ years into the Xone.
Gary Priester's Xara Xone work.
Geoff, I cannot remember presenting a tutorial with ellipses resulting in an "e" shape. but then again, I usually don't know the day of the week, so if you can't find what you need on either of the top two links, go to Mr. Priester's archive, okay?
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My Best,
—gary
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...it's an arm chair, okay, and no, I'm not competing with igor.
His threads are pun-ishment enough!
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...this can only go so far...
Hey, I like the chair, Gary!
I might try making a couple for the grandkids. I have a few sheets of bending plywood left from a project x number of years ago.
Thanks, Mike!
I wonder if you could work off a DXF file to recreate the chair, if you were interested. Or 3D print it! :)
I must say that I laboriously copied that chair from a small, unaccredited thumbnail on a Chinese free models site. As well as the "arm chair". I think I have a third, as well, and will do a separate post on them, as part of a collection.
Now, here's what I love, and again, had to model the chairs from a photo. Reneι Mackintosh was the spearhead of the European Arts & Crafts movement: a brilliant designer n just about every medium: ornaments, furniture, you name it. The closest American equivalent, I think, is the Mission furniture, especially the work of Gustav Stickley. Some will argue that today's Stickey furniture, still in the family, isn't of the quality of the first Stickley pieces.
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And like Mackintosh, the chairs look a look nicer than they are to sit upon! Form over function, once again! :(
-g