Early test for a pitch.
3D + comp
An old render
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 after some PS this is what I’ve got:
On Art, Design, Sculpture, other disciplines and their bonds
Nowadays, we’re experiencing (probably like never before) an incredible exchange of influences between creative disciplines. This fast, continuous movement of elements across neighboring fields, should give arts new interesting perspectives to push ideas into unfamiliar 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 exist, no differences will survive either.
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Stratum
What we consider reality is only that stratum of the world that we have the faculties to comprehend.
(John Banville)
Lion is the King
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.
Modeled in Blender and Softimage. Rendered in Softimage / Mental Ray. Post in PS.
For the color version click below:
Connected
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 go on.
Lately, I’ve got really interested in connections again, mainly for two reasons. One is a Steven Johnson book, pretty interesting reading if only for its good flow of thoughts.
The other is a project who a friend of mine told me about a few times ago now. It’s about connections and structures of data related to Marketing research.
Anyhow, I’ve started to experiment with this idea, below are two early tests:
My preferred manga of my childhood
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 the 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 it in order to work on this element. Modeled and rendered in Softimage.
ICE Scatter
Stumbled across this cool ICE compound and I wanted to give it a try. It’s actually really fun and easy to use.
