Gary Bouton's non-Xara Art II

[wizard509]

I still like this, even though I did it ten years ago as an avatar for our website, which we've more or less abandoned. I use a much better rendering engine these days, and only use Poser figures occasionally, but the lighting seemed to draw out some visual intrigue.

Or I'm totally kidding myself.

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I really,really like this image Gare and I agree with Gray, "The one side of the face really pulls you in. "

[Gare]

I really,really like this image Gare and I agree with Gray, "The one side of the face really pulls you in. "

Thanks, Larry! I've upped the gamma a little on a bitmap copy so the detail is just a little more visible:



My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

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.



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!

[gray]

It looks like green lichen, so I'm lichen it.

[Gare]

Ouch!



I consider myself pun-ished.



( Photorealistic emoticon)

[Gare]

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.

[Ron Duke]

You do the most amazing work, Gare.

[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.

[Ron Duke]

Love'm both.
The wall plaque made me laugh!

[Gare]

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.