Good one Gare!
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Good one Gare!
Thanks, Ron! A little difficult to play, huh? :)
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About 65% Poser rendered in a decent rendering environment, and some painting.
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There's a free small program called MagicaVoxel that lets you sculpt at very low 3D resolutions:
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My Best,
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Just goofing around with an aggregate of simple 3D shapes.
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Thank you, Ron. Let me visually explain this a little. I created closed paths in Xara, exported the paths to Cinema 4D, a modeling program, and then performed operations (ex. Extrude, intersect, create a solid along a path) to make the 3rd dimension out of Xara's 2D paths.
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:^)
1.) Model or photograph a paint can and brush.
2.) Use one of the Filter Forge filters to halftone it.
3.) Make a cardboard texture using Filter Forge.
4.) Bring bot items into Xara, and then place the halftone on top, then choose Multiply mode at about 94% to make it appear to be printed on the cardboard.
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Really cool Gare. Great use of the tools!
Thank you again, Ron!
The last time I visited Munich, the town official was interested in my work. He wanted a portrait done of himself.
So here's the Burger, Mister:
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(Mostly painted in Escape Motions' Rebelle. Not as overr-the-top as ArtRage, but I was seeking a more primitive look than the photorealism that you can do in ArtRage.)
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Wish I had your imagination.
Now I know where the beef is.
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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Hah. Good one Gary.
Wish I had thought of that saying for a Mother's Day card...
There's always next year, Mike. Unless someone is planning to do something.
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;))
Okay, Summer's over, but water is still here:
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Man! How do you come up with this stuff?
Very cool!
Thanks, Ron!
A lot of it comes from my childhood, revisiting happy times and times I hadn't had a chance to explore before Mom made me go get a career and a house and stuff.
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Never quite got a handle on "stuff", Ron, although suggestions have been made along my road that "responsibility", "sensible dressing", "a good diet", and "clean up your room" figured in there at points.
Here's the "smarmy pencil" I created during the Cretaceous period in a composition that was featured in a book two years ago, but the book wasn't in color.
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Pity, eh?
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Love it all!
Thank you, Sir. I'm going to start another gallery page. This is nuts trying to pore through 32 pages!
Begin here. shake the dice, then left the person to your right take their turn
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