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 (7)
EngleWolf
i was gonna say the trees looked like lollipops!! lol... really excellent work, just a fun fun image, and man-o-man i wish i had a pair of speakers like that!!! great one bud!!!!! :o)
robotalk
So you never told me you lived in Mt. Shasta California...wonderful image and very creative set up for the demo...this is truely fine idea and execution of it...and yes I'll have an enormous Sundae with banana's nuts and hot fudge ..mmmmmm
tibet2004uk
Cool! I like the compo! Very well done!
Hopalong
Nice depth at the "horizon" again. All pedestrian mall and industrial park all the time, hehe. Don't they put "campuses" like this underground in Canada?
butterfly_fish
Bryce 2, eh? I had the demo version of that when I first started looking into 3D. I seem to recall some hideous polygons pretending to be trees. I like your little Q-tip/lollipops! Nice work on this one!
ShadowWind
Very cool image, I lov ethe speaker buildings. I bet they can kick some serious bass. Nicely done...
GladysClump
this whole thing is fantastic, I actually like the little trees, they're pretty cute, they remind me of some of the model train set trees I used to have.