231 views | July 10th, 2009 | Bookmark This Post | No Comments
Skeptics and Reality is a short comic created by Michael Island demonstrating that skeptics have no concept of reality. The subject is a conversation a student and his professor have about the nature of skepticism while they walk down a college hallway and an invisible creature named “Reality” dances around them, beyond their perception, mocking them.
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A digital image — modeled in SketchUp, detailed and rendered in Carrara — of a building represented in various forms and styles with the intention of showing the sameness between digital creations and traditional ones.
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139 views | June 7th, 2009 | Bookmark This Post | No Comments
Here’s another comics style illustration, this time of a run-down stairway modeled in SketchUp and rendered in Carrara. I’m very happy with the way it turned out; looks like I scanned it straight from a comic. I still need to try this method in more styles and environments, but I’m very satisfied so far.
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110 views | June 6th, 2009 | Bookmark This Post | No Comments
Here’s another illustration made using SketchUp and Carrara of a doghouse and a dog relaxing in the grass. The dog is from Daz3D. I went with a “sketchier” look this time mostly because it looked good and partly because it was easier than trying to get that perfect lineart style. I don’t like all the lines on the grass and I didn’t get very lucky with the colors I chose, but at the least the render shows I can get various styles using this lighting method in Carrara.
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Here’s a digital image of a woman walking at night. It’s another carrara render in the same lineart style as the last image, except this time there is a character in the scene. The goal was to see how characters look in this style.
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