A Tiger for Mea (Photoshop) www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php
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I have been drawing since I was 11, some 33 years ago.
My 6th grade teacher, Mr. Knoss, was a great artist and I greatly admired his illustrations. He encouraged me to pursue my artistic interests at a crucial time in my development.
My High School art teacher "Vern", was also a great influence. He always challenged me to try different things.
I was lucky that my parents were very supportive of my interest in art. I studied at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1986-1990). Where I was humbled by many great artists that were far more talented than I. There it was that I rounded out my fine art skills, and then chose to major in Media Arts. Studied film, video and sound. Learned all the skills needed to shoot, direct, edit those mediums.
While pursuing a Media Arts major, I discovered computer graphics, still in it's infancy. This is where I came to an Epiphany. Here was a new medium, that incorporated everything I had previously learned into one new medium. Not only that, but it had new dimensions, interactivity, feedback, randomness, AI. I was hooked.
The next 17 years I learned and grew with the industry. Learning everything from how to create and manipulate digital imagery and create animations, to interface design and interactive authoring. My day job is an Information Architect, a fancy term for software interface design.
A few years back, my wife and I hit on some difficult times (As many people do) and it was during a very dark time in our lives that I discovered what became Renderosity, Initially I posted work, merely as a way to get myself back into the discipline of making new art.
I was delighted to find a world-wide community of talented artists, exchanging ideas and art!! I was thrilled! I have learned so much from you, and your art has brightened up my world. I am lucky to have made some great friends here, and I aim to do tributes to all of you!
Somanyartistssolittletime! ; )
I use this gallery as an online journal, and put all of my "Brain-droppings" here, over 400 images.
To see "The best" of my work, you can use the portals on my gallery page or go to my website:
www.abrainteractive.com
Comments (41)
Svarg
I think I had a vision like this while reading about quantum-mechanics. Cool metaballs and animation! Now if you could put this on your Christmas tree . . .
Jennyfnf
Anything is possible, some things are possible. These are. Sounds like a diffcult programme to me. You are very clever.
Richardphotos
wild as usual and very original art work
Brian S.
Whoa, that is like hypnotizing man...
dashboard_jehovah
LOL!...cool work! YES! It can be done!!!
robotalk
Incredible !!! This a wonderful work of art and imagination !! gorgeous beyond the valley of the lava lamps to say the least !!!
chimera46
Fantastic! This is enough to keep me dizzy for a while...
AeroJett
Very nice. I did something similar a week ago as an experiment (using the randomiser tool to make a 0-gee gell thing blow apart). Mine took 22 hours to render on a Mac mini. How long did yours take and on what machine?
Burpee
I heard through the grapevine that you like to play with your balls but I never believed it till now :D Fantastic animation my friend!!! (sorry, I'm such a bad, bad girl...hehe)
2Loose2Trek
What Robo said ... and very cool too!
Hopalong
Whatever robotalk says.
zoren
excellent interaction of these metaballs....
Digimon
Good question AeroJett, 7.75 minutes on a G5 dual 2GHZ Macintosh, in Bryce 5.
jjean21
When it comes to animation and you I think anything is possible and I'm always amazed at what you can accomplish.
jif3d
Lava-lover here...LW has this kool metaball FX too !!! looks like it is straight out of "CSI", DNA strands ! great experiment Cheers
linkdink
Totally cool! Its fun to pick one ball and follow it all around its path.
SSoffia
EXCELLENT !!!!
jocko500
cool looking and fun
sittingblue
i like it... great job!
BBarbs
WOW. Cool. Now that is mesmerizing. Would make a great screensaver. I love how the metaballs stretch and revert. Wonderful animation. Excellent !!!!
Conniekat8
juggle ballz, juggle ballz, juggle all the way... oh, where am I? That was some trip :D
oscilis
So is that done like a cartoon animation with lots of frames? And how are you stretching and changing the shapes? It's very effective.
clydedough
very cool & mesmerizing!
wizardangel1
Yes them meta's are fun in animation ----and very unpredictable when you need detail persition --bad choice ---But for a fill as say a Kneecap to join leg together and have a reasonable movement --they are great ---LOVE your playfull display Digimon--You Had Fun and it shows !!!
Digimon
Good question Rozanne! There are only 7 frames in this one. About Meta Balls Meta Balls have magnetic attraction to one another, as soon as they get close enough to another one, they warp their shape and connect, two Meta Balls make one shape, three make another. The shapes were expected, what suprised me was that they blended their color too!! Very cool. So all this animation really is, is a bunch of Meta Balls spinning around and colliding with each other. All the shape changing and color blending happens automatically.
Naichan
Thanks for the lecture, Eric :-) This nucleus thing seems to emulate natural phenomenon like water in zero-g held in place by gravitational or magnetic forces. All very curious and the ideal subject for animation. btw, I like your QuickTime movie suggestion. Maybe we could try a basic experiment together? Stand by. Energize the the animation generator!
helix3d
It mez-mo-rize me. I m e z m o r i z e d. Meta balls = neverending fun.
DennisReed
Awesome animation! Bravo!
Lampy
What a great gallery you have. Thanks
acclaude
Excellent smashed warped perpetual trajectories!! So beautifull & hypnotic result !! Fantastic experimental artwork !! xxxxx Thks 4share!