Gare's non-Xara Art

[Gare]

This is mostly a "how to use colors and space" piece, but I was also happy with the photorealistic quality of the render. I sculpted it in Cinema 4D, and then rendered in with Luxology modo. The flames are the result of a particle system I created with ParticleIllusions, the $100 starter version.


It sort of looks like boring catalog photography, doesn't it?

[Rik]

It sort of looks like boring catalog photography, doesn't it?

Not to us lesser mortal!
Personally I think it looks fabulous.

[Gare]

This online area began as a gallery, and now it's a thread.

So I thought it could use some spools.



This is an example where the shaders are much more important as a visual contributor than the shapes in the scene. The bobbins were extremely easy to create by lathing half the shape I drew in Xara, using Cinema 4D. Then the thread texture? It took nearly two days to paint the threads, and then a displacement map, and then to light the scene in a convincing way. But now that I have a good thread material, I can change it to any different color in the future.

[angelize]

That looks so nice and soft almost like chenille.

[Gare]

Thanks! I did it a few years ago, and at the time, I wanted texture (bumpiness) on the thread, but overdid it somewhat. Plus it's a little too thick to be on a thread bobbin. Perhaps mooring cable?

-g-

[angelize]

If you modeled it as a skein of yarn it would be perfect.

[Gare]

I stumbled upon this in a folder this morning, and thought it was "Gallery-Worthy".

I created it five years ago, according to the file date; I'd been pitching a book on Xara for almost ten years before my agent and I sealed a deal in 2009. This was one of the cover illustration ideas that didn't make it. Initially I was puzzled over why I did the Swiss Army Knife in red, and then remembered that it was a theme colour several versions ago on the splash screen.

Time flies and house flies,

Gary