I really,really like this image Gare and I agree with Gray, "The one side of the face really pulls you in. "
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Thanks, Larry! I've upped the gamma a little on a bitmap copy so the detail is just a little more visible:
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My Best,
Gary
I created this image using Filter Forge. One of the presets is a 3D fractal written to a 2D image file. I was able to use a diffusoin map of the same image to create an alpha channel for it, and trimmed it and saved to PNG. I dud the rest in Xara.
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Obviously it's not a Shamrock or anything obvious to celebrate St. Patty's Day this Friday, but...
Oh, wait a sec'.
It's a head of cabbage looking for the corned beef!
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It looks like green lichen, so I'm lichen it.
Ouch!
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I consider myself pun-ished.
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( Photorealistic emoticon)
Full disclosure: I got about half way through creating this, and I'm a novice at zBrush, so I has to ask a much ore accomplished zBrusher (?) to help me over some rough spots.
I used: Cinema 4D. modo, zBrush, a few texture generators, a blurred stock photo for the background (it's of an airplane cockpit, royalty-free, free for all uses IOW) Photoshop, and then Xara.
For as far as I know, I did this as a challenge and for fun. In my wildest dreams, I cannot imagine selling this or using it for anything.
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You do the most amazing work, Gare.
Thank you, Good Sir, Ronald of the Elliptical (but Round) Table!
On odd occasion, a piece that takes an extraordinary amount of work...comes to me quickly. The Baby Groot render went quickly because I fewlt myself directed. Perhaps by a Higher Power, perhaps by Thanos the Destroyer. That was a Guardians joke, purportedly.
There are far simpler visualizations that can take days if not hours, simply because I haven't applied myself totally to the work, and I'm sweating trivial details.
By the way, don't equate work vs. Play with Fun and Not-fun. The comparisons are not the same, although work tends to equal the not-fun part of the 2nd equation.
Me? I try to make work just as fun as play. When it's not, and the work is not for a client, I say sod it.
This is mostly painting over a photo with Painter, and then the text using Xara.
I call it Two cats on a pizza. No charge for extra toppings.
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Love'm both.
The wall plaque made me laugh!
Thanks, Ron! If I had the energy I'd do a lot more quotables on T-shirts, as posters, and Sticky Notes; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is pounded like traditional meat tenderizing.
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