Using a Cinema 4D module called Mograph I was able to get some cool effects fairly easily. Like that nice building effect is basically the cloner and a matrix of cubes.

Using the constraint tag and some trigonometry I created an oil derrick in Cinema 4D. There will be oil (and blood?) in no time! I like to set it on loop and just sit back for a while. And keep your milkshake straws away!

A little late for St. Patrick’s Day, but fun none the less: check out this render of a beer, complete with particles to act as the carbonation and foam.

…you’ll just wanna bang on these drums all day!

You need a webcam in or for your computer in order to get this to work, but you can now play the drums by waving your hands around in well-lit areas.

Virtual Drums

Because I received so many compliments on my pastel figure drawing last week (check it out), I thought you might want to see a few other pastel pieces I scrounged up.

This is quite an old fruit and vegetable still life, but I enjoy the reflective quality of the fruit and surface, and the color of the wall. Then I have two self portraits: the pointing one is the older (and least successful) of the two, but I like that I was at least going for the foreshortening and distortion. And the colors have some life to them in the inquisitive one.

Another class I am taking right now is Figure Drawing. And let me tell you: at this point it feels so good to just be drawing again. It’s been three years since a model has disrobed in my presence, and as weird as it sounds: it was nice. The pure art center of my brain was ready to go almost instantly. And here comes a wide sampling of durations, poses, and techniques…

There’s a lot of great stuff going on in the computer generated art scene, it’s a nice mix of programming prowess and personal expression. I made one that combines nature-inspired vector shapes with a color sampling of this image. It is also a drawing tool, one in which I made massive amounts of swirls in. The faster you move the cursor the more it throws down and in wilder rotations. The longer you hold it in the same spot, the more blurry it gets. And each time you click it switches to a different color. Here are my results, overall and up close:

Check out and upload an image of yourself to the I Exist web site! Maybe you can feel a bit reassured about your existence knowing that a small group of people feel the same way and have seen you on a web site. Quite a large overhaul from the previous version, I would say.

As promised, here is a Flash way to interact with the 360 panoramas. Select any of the three pictures, click and drag to pan up or down, and watch as they go all the way around.

Here is a lab I did in class today, it is a very basic proof of concept. The concept I am proving? That you can upload an image to my server using a Flash interface. Pretty easy, yet bursting with possibilities!