It's fun being an early adopter and practitioner of 3d art, and seeing how fast it has grown in such a short time. I remember in the 1980's seeing Pixar's 3d knight in the movie Young Sherlock Holmes and thinking I really want to do that someday. Back then they needed a Cray supercomputer just to do the rendering. Today we can churn images like this on decent desktop machines. It is truly liberating to create an entire virtual world, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for us all.BIOI first started creating 3d art in 1993, with the advent of KPT Bryce 1.0. I was an avid beta tester and contributor of images to the old HSC and KPT galleries on a very young AOL. Since then I've served on the faculty of every Brycecamp, consulted on the initial concepts of Mojoworld, and added Vue, Carrara, Poser, Mojoworld, Artmatic Voyager, and Electricimage Animation System to my arsenal of favorite apps.
I enjoy doing the occasional still life, but landscapes are my passion. I really enjoy being a 3d artist and using the creative and technical sides of my brain at the same time. The chaos of nature is difficult to recreate, but we keep getting better tools and faster computers. Instancing tools and fractal driven distribution schemes have taken us a long way to recreating that chaos and realism.
I love creating virtual worlds and environments and some day soon I would enjoy putting these skills to the test in a feature film or game.
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Comments (9)
jamieh
Really beautiful. Subtle and effective!
trixiwillius
Quite fascinating. Bravo.
Mikan
This is magic - - excellent mood...Simply great!
TinoH
Fantastic Scott. Is there something going on also with the surface of the water? It looks amost like there are two layers there. The lower part of the seastack reflection, that is, the reflection of the peaks, look like it's not broken up as much as I would imagine the waviness would break it up. Of course, these are only minor questions. I find the overall image very tasty. Excellent!
bpmac
Really, really, nice Scott! I'm a sucker for a well composed image.
deliking
wow, Wow WOW!
DragonWizard
Excellent Monochromatic work....love the distant mist and soft contrast of the Background offset by the clarity and sharpness of the rocks on the beach...the sand is superb and the reflection of of it is a really nice touch...Excellent
patrice79
This is really wonderfull, what a astounding series ! Unique atmosphere, WOw !
scotttucker3d
I'm flattered by all your comments : ) Yes Tino you are right. Eric designed Voyager waters to be calmer when the water gets shallow, but I think that it isn't taking into account that I have a lot of foam and the water really should be rougher there - regardless of the shallowness. If I were to sell this image as art I would first use the liquefy tool in PS7 to make that area a little more turbulent. Also I have the transparency nearly off and you can still see some of the rocks underwater. Again this is something weird happening with very shallow water in Voyager. This foam makes great raw material for art as you will see two images from now ; )