Created by mapping art to the Z axis of a 3D noise map (terrain heightmap), viewed top down, then working up the result in Dynamic AutoPainter Klimt preset, then hue shifting in Lab colorspace in photoshop, and maybe other tricks (my notes say FilterForge?). Former title: 00061 abstraction, and maybe other things. I gave up on numbering works–keeping it straight in my many source files is a technical feat beyond me.
Tag: 3dsMax
Forest Spirits I, II and III (Works 00034, 00035, and 00036)
The first thumbnail here links to a 9000px wide image. The other two link to 2400px wide images.
Software used: Solidworks, 3ds Max, Filter Forge, Photoshop. The horizontal and vertical painterly streaks and stripes are a side effect of the Sketchy Painting Filter Forge filter extending the effect from where an opaque area borders a transparent (alpha) area in an image. I deliberately used that side effect here. It may only work with a previous version of Filter Forge and/or the mentioned filter :/ A hoity-toity robot talks about these at:
Pending: A variant composite of all three of these.
If you want a print, leave a comment and I'll make one available.
Abstraction 00059 Krita splatter test / Color blindness type chart
I wholly created all of the following images, and I release them into the Public Domain.
This first was a test of custom brushes for Krita.
The second shown here, which explores how different kinds of color blindness may be in the perception of those who suffer that, evolved from an attempt to make all of the hues appear as the same shade of gray when desaturated (wondering just how much saturation and desaturation can hide and reveal), which led to wondering about color blindness.
I also used it in a flat-mapped texture across a 3D noise terrain in 3ds Max, of which the following are examples.
I've made hundreds of these, and not yet posted them. [Edit 2015-06-28 naming them, and all of my art, is a computer science project. I've written the naming scripts, and I may soon upload so much art.] I think this could be a procedurally painted cave wall, an alien terrain height map generator, or whatever. You can shift the hues in them all by an equal amount and get wildly different color results. Desaturate them, and you have a relatively uniform black/white/gray mountain height/whatever map that you can use e.g. as random opacity maps in abstract art. You can mix them up in abstract art, smear the colors around, and get freaky cool stuff.
Abstract mechanical colorful mess (Work 00019)
[I don't know. I'm still reworking this piece. Something that makes a varied/interesting hybrid of the old and new version may be preferable. 01/18/2017 09:18:15 PM]
Image links to larger image, free for personal use. This work was previously titled Abstraction [twenty-two.] The brackets and spelled instead of numeric why? It's technical.
Software used: SolidWorks, 3ds Max, Photoshop, Painter, pixeur, irfanview, LibreOffice calc. How this was produced:
- Targeted a desired print size @ 300dpi using my target resolution calculator spreadsheet
- Made a few abstract shapes in SolidWorks
- Imported them into 3ds Max (you have to use the 32-bit version of at least max 2013 with the import file open in SolidWorks to do this)
- Collapsed them to editable polys, and with SoulBurn scripts, painted them over a terrain with random scale and orientation, and applied random material IDs between 1-100
- Applyied a custom multi-sub material with a hundred different fractal flame/winamp milkdrop textures that apply by randomized material id (embedded yet further in a composite material with an alpha/edge blend mask)
- Rendered a gray under-painting and several layers of randomized material color over-paintings
- Mucked around with those in so many different layers with color cloning palette knives and oil paint in Painter, and auto-cloning, erasing, blending in various layer modes, etc.
- Mucked around with all those so many times in Photoshop
- Mucked around with those in turn so many times in Painter
I wasn't pleased to revisit this work, and reworked it. The previous version:
I like the colors, texture, smears and general forms of this original better than my revised version, but I prefer clarity of form (even for something semi-abstract) over that. The original was so indistinctly formed as to be a pretty blur, which would better be incorporated as part of some other work.
I think I'd like even better something that harmonizes or interestingly combines the two. I may yet make a third revision.
Abstraction (work 00014) and color variants
Here is a digital art work I created with 3DSmax, Corel Painter and Photoshop.
With #3DSMax and #SoulburnScripts, I randomly scattered and rotated very many brush-stroke textured tiles (I used 3DSMax as a particle painter). I then worked up the resulting render further in #CorelPainter and #Photoshop. ~ A hoity-toity robot talks about this at http://s.earthbound.io/artgib
Here are two variant works with color hue-shifted in Lab color mode (it produces more human-perceptual-friendly color changes than the brute math of RGB).
Click the images to open larger ones, free for personal use. This was formerly entitled Abstraction 00021.
EDIT: there used to be a cover of a super disturbed fiction eBook I wrote here; there isn't anymore. But of it, I wrote:
*I'm not even really sure why I'd put this on my blog. In keeping with "I'm paying attention to you, whatever you give me, Image Brain?" Did you know if you do that with any part of your brain–just sketch or sing into a voice recorder or write or whatever anything your brain gives you–did you know that if you do this, then your unconscious realizes you are paying attention, and it gives you more music or images or whatever to create? This is my experience. Caveat: this does not mean you should publish anything and everything your brain gives you ;) but if you do this, you may find yourself creating things you wish to publish.
Crystal Spindle Haystack (work 00008)
This was accomplished by modeling and rendering translucent spindles colored by randomized wireframe color (using SoulBurn Scripts) in 3ds Max, randomly rotating them (also with SoulBurn scripts), then severely bumping up the light and using it as a paint guide.
Thumbnail links to large desktop image free for personal use. Print from higher resolution original (designed for 24" x 14") available here.
[11/28/2016: post resurrected. This work was previously entitled Abstraction 00015.]