My corporeal form lives with my wonderful wife and six eccentric cats in beautiful Sedgefield, but my dreaming body is frequently elsewhere, exploring the fractal universe and marveling at nature's chaos. I love traveling to places that exist only as mathematical constructs on my computer and bringing back snapshots that sometimes remind me of the real world (whatever that means), sometimes of metamagical worlds we can visit only in our imaginations. I trained as a biologist and run a small company specialising in science publishing - writing, editing, illustrating and typesetting. For 3D world building I use Vue, Daz Studio and Poser, but I've also used Bryce since version 2 and done some work with Terragen, Carrara and Groboto. For technical illustration I use mainly Illustrator and Photoshop.
Thanks for visiting my little corner of Renderosity, and to everyone who has kindly commented on my images or added my works as a favourite, thank you for that too. Craig.
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Comments (16)
Cyve
It's absolutely gorgeous !
Savage_dragon
That's pretty cool, Craig. ")
Black-Carrie
Fantastic image!
grafikeer
Excellent image Craig...love the subtle colour palette,bet those transparent materials took a while to render!
Mark-David-Rogers
I love this piece, if this is the quality you have hiding on the HDD I would hate to think what you got rid of in trashing 50gb of files. Nice idea.
wblack
Really beautiful color palette, the transparent materials and subtle tonal shading of the background make this a spectacular work of art.
ronmolina
Exceptional!
shingleboot
I understand quite well. I have a great purge at least once a year as well. Neat looking androids.
auntietk
You come up with the most amazing, creative ideas! I never would have thought of transparent androids, although there's absolutely no reason not to. :P Good stuff!
EricofSD
Fascinating, very well done
mgtcs
Excellent idea my friend, marvelous colors and transparency, amazing concept!
GrandmaT
Great job!
kftate
Very cool image! Superbly done!
Darkwish
Nice idea!
Dotthy
fantastic atmo and awesome androids!!!!!!!!
anahata.c
I love pieces like this, because they're 'variations on a theme'---ie, how many variations can you create on the human form? And variations like these are subtle rather than blatant---ie, instead of having two heads, 4 eyes, etc, you used the basic human structure, but altered it as a designer would, with subtleties and finesse. I love the blues, heaviest at the joints but also flowing between them. It's a kind of slate-blue, subtle. (You're not going for big effects here, which makes this very delicate.) A lot of the spinal-muscular features (neural, tendons, whatever we're seeing) are close to human features, but you have wonderfully stylized variations of them: The vertebrae look like what vertebrae would look like if designed by a fine designer, getting rid of a lot of the imperfections, and using a material far less prone to decay---and easier to replace. Kind of "this is how they SHOULD have been made," with "lips" that each socket hooks into. And the breastplate and lungs are almost "bows," with two pieces coming down quite gracefully, as in a tied-bow. And certainly less complex than the rib cage. And they're transparent---which is always fun (Tara got a big kick out of it!)---and very gracefully so. I keep coming back to "subtle" and "finessed". Those are features in you, and I love how they manifest themselves in pieces like this. The droids move and stand like they've studied ballet or modern dance. The androids I've seen often have rickety machine-like parts, with mixtures of animal and insect parts woven in. This is sheerly human, and your variation is subtle and beautiful. It would be great to see a book of these, one variation after the next, with your knowledge brought to artistic use, image after image. It strikes me how you turn some of your knowledge into art, again and again. A delicate beautiful pair. Bathed in a deep yellow light...