I did the render below almost two years ago, playing with Blender’s materials. Today I stumbled across it and I thought it could have been fun to give it a new life. So I fiddled around in PS and this is what I’ve got:
Nowadays we’re experiencing (probably like never before) an incredible exchange of influences among all the main creative disciplines. This fast, continuous movement of elements across neighboring fields, should gives arts new interesting perspectives to push creative ideas further into unexplored lands. Nonetheless the risk is that everything is going to collapse into a repetitive pattern, a system that cannot reinvent itself anymore but only feed a liquid network where probably if no boundaries will exist also no differences will survive as well.
What we consider reality is only that stratum of the world that we have the faculties to comprehend.
(John Banville)
Some fun with random elements and a pair of objet trouve. After all, I really loved Surrealism and Dadaism and the idea of tossing random objects revealing hidden unrevealed connections it’s always been fascinating to me. Obviously I consider the following image just an exercise, but I don’t think the same about what Surrealistic techniques can still produce, even nowadays (maybe especially nowadays).
Modeled in Blender and Softimage. Rendered in Softimage / Mental Ray. Post in PS.
For the color version click below:
There’s something really fascinating about connections: it’s the structure our neural activity relies on, it’s the base of the web itself (i.e. hyper links, the most powerful thing since its birth yet), it’s the bond among people, and the list can only goes on.
Lately I’ve got really interested in connections again, mainly for two reasons. One is a Steven Johnson‘s book, pretty interesting reading if only for its good flow of thoughts. The other is a project who a friend of mine told me quite few time ago now. It’s about connections and structures of data related to Marketing research.
Anyhow, I’ve started to experiment around this idea, below two early tests:
I loved many cartoons when I was a child – and still I do 
– though one has been really my favorite. It was quite different from all others as for the first time the story wasn’t about aliens or monsters. It seemed more like a real story, a story of war with fear and emotions on both sides. Gundam also started a new trend in terms of design, a trend that lasted till today.
I picked part of that design and re-arranged for this element. Modeled and rendered in Softimage.
Stumbled across this cool ICE compound and thought to give it a try. It’s actually really fun and easy to use.
Some random stuff made playing with ICE and 3D type in Softimage
When I bought my Canon 7D one of the first thing I wanted to do so bad was shooting macro. I always loved such abstract stuff that nature brings to our eyes. Thus I added an extension tube sets to my gears and I started to have fun.
It was a while I wasn’t shooting macros though. Somehow tonight I felt I wanted to and so I did.
Just another piece of nature.
Words in the picture are from Rimbdau’s poem “Flower”
The macro comes from a dried artichoke:
