{"id":231,"date":"2014-08-17T20:08:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T03:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2020-10-20T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T18:14:09","slug":"abstraction-00022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/abstraction-00022\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract mechanical colorful mess (Work 00019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[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]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-889\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abstract-mechanical-colorful-mess-Work-00019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-889 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abstract-mechanical-colorful-mess-Work-00019-768x327.jpg\" alt=\"See http:\/\/s.earthbound.io\/2r for original, print and usage. ~ Created via: SolidWorks, 3dsMax, Corel Painter X, Photoshop. Full details of production at that link. ~ A hoity-toity robot talks about this at http:\/\/s.earthbound.io\/artgib\" width=\"768\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abstract-mechanical-colorful-mess-Work-00019-768x327.jpg 768w, https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abstract-mechanical-colorful-mess-Work-00019-144x61.jpg 144w, https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abstract-mechanical-colorful-mess-Work-00019-360x153.jpg 360w, https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abstract-mechanical-colorful-mess-Work-00019-1366x581.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abstract mechanical colorful mess (Work 00019).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Software used: SolidWorks, 3ds Max, Photoshop, Painter, pixeur, irfanview, LibreOffice calc. How this was produced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Targeted a desired print size @ 300dpi using my <a title=\"Target resolution spreadsheet\" href=\"http:\/\/earthbound.io\/tools\/target_resolution_calculator.ods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">target resolution calculator spreadsheet<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Made a few abstract shapes in SolidWorks<\/li>\n<li>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)<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>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)<\/li>\n<li>Rendered a gray under-painting and several layers of randomized material color over-paintings<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Mucked around with all those so many times in Photoshop<\/li>\n<li>Mucked around with those in turn so many times in Painter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wasn't pleased to revisit this work, and reworked it. The previous version:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-890 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wasFINAL_work_00019__2014-08-17__08-47-22_PM_v01-768x327.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wasFINAL_work_00019__2014-08-17__08-47-22_PM_v01-768x327.jpg 768w, https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wasFINAL_work_00019__2014-08-17__08-47-22_PM_v01-144x61.jpg 144w, https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wasFINAL_work_00019__2014-08-17__08-47-22_PM_v01-360x153.jpg 360w, https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wasFINAL_work_00019__2014-08-17__08-47-22_PM_v01.jpg 1222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I think I'd like even better something that harmonizes or interestingly combines the two. I may yet make a third revision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[265,208,404,187,209,108,177,80,53,225,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-3d","9":"tag-3dsmax","10":"tag-abstractart","11":"tag-contemporary-art","12":"tag-corelpainter","13":"tag-digital","14":"tag-mywork","15":"tag-navel-gazing","16":"tag-photoshop","17":"tag-solidworks","18":"tag-visual-art","19":"h-entry","20":"hentry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthbound.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}