Gary Bouton's non-Xara Art II

[Gare]

Thanks, Mike. Pity I can't say it's actually my work!

This could be a Xara piece,if only 3D extrudes were supported as vectors. I did this entirely in Adobe Dimensions and the vectors can be rotated in 3D space. Infinite poses, infinite finishes, infinite lighting for the price of a few hours' work.



Some Xarists do planes and trains (excellently, mind you) :) I do guitars.

My Best,

Gary

[mwenz]

Does Dimensions run on newer OS', Gary? If so I'll want to dig out my install. It's been a long time since I used it.

The only real, working 3D job I ever did was in Crystal 3D and was for the print pieces originally. Then they wanted an animated version of it as well for the investor presentation. It was a 65 or so foot long machine that automatically built walls using metal studs in office buildings. It was pretty cool.

[Gare]

Does Dimensions run on newer OS', Gary?

I believe so, Mike. I just rendered out those two guitars this morning. :)

Seriously: 64×, yes. Windows 7, yes. No reason to believe it won't install or run under Win 10.

My Best,

[gray]

Great effect with the water colour Gary, and those guitars are just plain good.

[Gare]

Great effect with the water colour Gary, and those guitars are just plain good.

Ah, welcome Mr. Planes and Trains, Graham! :)

Thank you for all comments; mwenz likes the watercolour filter, too, so here is one from 1994, where I used Silicon Beach Software's Gallery Effects. This was later acquired and incorporated into Photoshop, but Adobe never got around to a high-res version of the filters, so there is some aliasing when you apply them, and some filters won't work at all on layers, a relatively contemporary feature given the filters were originally 8-bit, and layers were a pipe dream in photo retouching.

So I massaged this piece this morning after applying the filter:



My Best,

Gary

[gray]

I like that Gary, it gives a convincing effect.

[Gare]

I like that Gary, it gives a convincing effect.

Well, once again, Graham, your complements mean a lot to me, coming from someone who can paint, to someone who doesn't know how!

This is a design within a design. First, I created a fake New Yorker cover, then I put it in a scene I rendered, and then filtered a lot:



My Best,

Gary

[gray]

It goes together well, Gary. It just works.

[Gare]

This is just a still life I'm pleased with. It took a lot of colour correction using Photoshop, and then quite some time paint-cloning over it with Painter.



My Best,

Gary

[gray]

Interesting results, Gary. The different textures are eye catching. Looks like traditional art.