As an artist, I do four things; Oils on Canvas (Social Commentary), Drawings of National Parks, Photography of Birds and California Native Plants and 2D/3D Digital.
Since most here will be interest in digital work, I'll talk about that. I started in the digital world with a TI-99/4a computer in the early 1980's and immediately started creating art and animation with a very limited graphic range in hexadecimal code (16 colors, 256 shapes). I eventually became a published artist for Asgard Software and a year later when out on my own to form “Notung Software” which became on of the most popular TI Software companies. In 2010, I was inducted in the TI-99/4a Hall of Fame.
After making my switch to the PC, I started with Sketcher (the precursor to Painter) and even owned Fractal Design's "Poser 1". I didn't start seriously playing with Poser until Version 3 came around. With the advent of Poser 4, I began by creating textures and started a career as a digital artist, selling my work through Zygote, Vista, DAZ3D, Hivewire3D and Renderosity.
I really didn’t find my nitch in the 3D world until I partnered with BL Render to do the Songbird ReMix Series in 2003. The following year, I came into my own blending my love and knowledge of birds with a strong environmental theme "Threatened, Endangered, Extinct". That set, designed specifically to raise awareness about threatened species and why they're going extinct, became a template for all my work.
Since then I’ve steadily worked on improving my skills with Painter and Modo, and of course, producing more 3D birds and other flora and fauna with a strong environmental message. Today, the Songbird Remix birds have appeared in films such as ”I am Legend”, in Audubon literature and advertising, Duncraft (bird product & seed) advertising, in the museum presentations (such as the National Wildlife Research Center of Saudi Arabia) and even billboards and bus benches for the Omaha Reads promotions.
Besides being a Renderosity Vendor, I work at home as a freelance artist/photographer and also volunteer/lecture at the Theodore Payne Foundation (a Foundation that focuses a native plant awareness) and at Audubon California.
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Comments (14)
Lorraine
yowza very nice! great textures and expansive scene...
Devon
Excellent Ken... Another GREAT render. Awesome scene and composition.
februus
Wow! Great job!
trevor3000
very well done
dolly
yet another exellent wildlife picture from you ken well done
MikeJ
I agree with everything already stated here. It says, "helpful comments for improvement", but damn if I can think of anything! It's perfect, and greatly enhanced by the cinemascope rendering.
crushr
Nice scene Ken, I feel like I'm sitting in a hive taking this picture.
dragonfly2000
Perfect.
dragongirl
Good action and lots of depth - gee - TWO herds going - great work!
Axe555
The only way I would improve this is much larger, framed, and hanging on the livingroom wall! Beautiful work! :D
czekser
Waow ! Really "living" scene. The cinemascope (which is really under-used with Vue) give a really good feeling of motion. It boosts the impress of the charge. What DVD movies is it excerpted from ?? :)
black-canary
wow, ken, that's really spectacular! you really know how to push the envelope with vue.
Ona
Great!
Digital_Mischief
Love the feeling of movement...