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 (44)
Boofy
Oh well done! I dunno about hopalongs' quote though, sometimes a cropped thumbnail can add mystery and give a pleasant suprise upon opening the pic. I like the eagle though, good work. Jenny
Mondwin
Excellent dedi as Your usual!!Bravissimo!:DDD.Hugsxx
NekhbetSun
I agree with the above...a peek-a-boo thumb should always tempt the viewer for more....marvelous animation, once again Eric !!! Have a rollicking good weekend S hugs
iaacf
I didn't know this is possible on RR.. moving images I mean.. Extraordinary.
Jennyfnf
Smashing animation Eric. He was in your collage and I wondered how many shots you had taken of him. Hope your Sturday is better than ours - it's raining like billyo:-)
jif3d
Super loop Doc ! looks like he's in a rush to catch the morning train...er, hang on that was Dolly the eagle...DOH ! nifty cut'n'pastin' Cheers
Richardphotos
an awesome job you did Eric. one of your most impressive animations
kenwas
Great job and a fine dedi!
BBarbs
Excellent work. Looks like alot of work. How fortunate you were able to get so many images of an eagle. Lucky you !!!! Superb work !!!
morningglory
Great work, but I would be in favor of a new category at Renderosity for all the artists who would like to upload animations.
Zacko
Gotta love this one as well. So freaking cool!!!! I gotta make me GIF too someday....preferably an animated one, lol. #:o)
claudialee
What a wonderful post. Excellent work and amazing capture of this incredible Eagle. HUGS!!
Biffowitz
Looking good, pretty lucky to get that many images I think. Great ani!
wizardangel1
oH YEP--LOT'S of work going on in this one !!I am fully aware,,i use the same tech--You got some awsome pic's !!! Excellent LOOP !!!
Naichan
A study very much developed from Muybridge. Did he ever tackle a bird of prey? He would have loved this, although I think he would have used a grid, don't you? The work you put into this regarding the background certainly paid off. You've really got me hooked on this anim-gif lark, Eric. Can't wait to post another!
Vladivar
Very well done animation, fantastic thumbnail :) You're not wasting your time, Eric :) I only saw eagles few times, they're huuuge and amazing birds. By the way, did I say 'Friday' in my last comment? Time goes so fast during weekends (sigh)...
romanceworks
You must have been very excited to get a shot of that eagle ... great animation. CC
Hopalong
Absolutely superb animation, my dear Doctor Digimon, and am flattered and touched by the dedication. I note also that we are on the same page in regard to the thumbnails being the main gallery, with the images in the main gallery as, if you will, a kind of appendage and private part. So many here thoughtlessly and indecently post the images in the privacy of the main gallery, indulging in all sorts of filth, like nudity abd genital contact, that it is all to easy to realize that Renderosity is an Artists' Community, a family site, and a public forum, owned and administered by guardians of the public morals who have nothing but the welfare and well-being of the artists, their audiences, the commonwealth in which we all reside, and yea, the world at large, including the good people of Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, and even France and Quebec and Louisiana (that means you jocko500), Russia, Canada, Minnesota. Money and gain matters little to great-hearted souls such as these, who have taken the time to educate us, who spend their hours, their days, their years pouring over images to gently excise any matter even distantly damaging to the public morals. A swimming female figure with a de facto compression artifact thong, how harmless it seems to some of us, unthinking and untrained in the perversions of the the human psyche and humanity. Our guardians know better--they know what vice and corruption lie within an innocent imagination presented with such a dangerous collection of pixels, and we owe them an enormous debt. A Poser female figure with the genitals turned off riding astride the back of another Poser figure, male--we, in our innocence and naivite--might laugh, as it at some childish jest, but our guardians know where this leads, and with a generosity almost divine, save us from our unkowing, keep us on the path of purity and virtue. Let this mighty naked, underage Eagle in flight, with its genitals still pre-pubescent, be a symbol of our gratitude to these invaluable censors of our blithe thoughtlessness. And let us now go forward into the real gallery at this site, the thumbnail gallery, where all is purity and light. And let us also thank again the Owner, who makes all this possible for us, poor benighted artists that we are. Oh, Mighty Owner of Renderosity, thank you this day for our daily post, forgive us our trespassses as we forgive the trespasses of others, and keep us on the straight and narrow of uprightness and reverence. Amen.
robotalk
Look !! It's Steve Miller !!!
Sekadhar
Super dedi! Excellent done!!! Bravo!!!
EngleWolf
watching eagles fly is a joy in itself!!! excellent anim !!! enjoy your holiday weekend!! :o) k&j
lemonjim
pretty slick! someday we'll have cameras that shoot 300 fps and this would be a great subject.
busi2ness
What a perfect sequence without wasting a frame!
kimariehere
OK I NEED TO LEARN ANNIMATION BIG TIME !!! I ADORE THIS !! i thought he would up and fly out of my moniter !! WHISSHHH .. the wind gust from it just messed up my HAIR ...LOL!!! ....AWESOME ERIC (says eric like ewok ) hhehee ...
DennisReed
LOL! Let me get this straight, your giving the bird to Hopalong! ;) Great animation! :)
Loloe
Another great animation!!! Bravo!!!
GiMi53
I'd like to have this wonderful animated image in my gallery --> in my favs ! ;~)
puzzler
You are talking to an amateur, wonderful motion, will get into it eventually...Superb work....Cath xxx
mamabobbijo
How in the face of such awe and majesty, did you ever get such shots? I would have forgotten I was even holding a camera, which I rarely do for just that reason, let alone point focus and shoot. Thanks for sharing. BJ
zoren
your a smooth animater..... cool new avatar too.