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
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Comments (15)
robotalk
Nice design work --and shadows --looks like a good program and you seem to know how to work it beautifully from your first try--excellent!
tibet2004uk
Woohoo! An animation!! I love animations! ;) Very cool one!
Tedz
What a cool Creation...I am looking for a fine Bot...sigh... to fight the Borg & Klingons...salute
Lorraine
oh very cool...what a great robot...a hexabot
jocko500
looking good love it and i going to check in on this
kimariehere
WOW!! NOW THIS IS SOooooooooooo KEWL!!! MUST HAVE TAKEN SOME serious time....~!! wonderful ..cute and brilliant work!!
butterfly_fish
That totally rocks!! Impressive! And kind of scary, actually. No frills sounds like a good way to go with a modeling program. I don't do my finished renders in my modeler, anyway. I have got to find time to learn the modelers I already have, though. lol.
violet
Well done !!! Seems to be a cool program...The bot looks great ..the animation too...keep on playing and show us the result...X X X
cynlee
congrats on finding a new program!! he's not to be messed with with those fire-arms!! :] total coolness
logiloglu
yeah, looks cool. a fascinating roboter. excellent done,Eric. !!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!
castaneda
Is Hexagon intuitive to use, and relatively easy? Coollooking bot. I still have to learn the modelers I have too, and I'm just not patient enough with Bryce primitives. You've nearly inspired me to try Hexagon
Cosme..D..Churruca
Love your experiments... seems to me an incomprenssible world ! Very clever my friend !
MeredithWilson
Dear Eric, Great work and really interesting. I've been thinking about a PC based modeling program. Everything I do now is all numerically generated in VB and C. I looked at their web site and they talk about "editable" contruction but didn't find any particulars. Have you seen anything about being able to drive it externally from a script? Or does it by any chance have a VB background macro language? That would be ideal!! Very Excellent work!! Love, Meredith
shinyary2
Looks great! Very interesting robot. Vaguely remeniscent of Dog in Half-Life2. =)
Azr1el
WOW! Excellent first model!!!! :))))