Tuesday, September 13, 2016

An Interview with Simon Stålenhag's

I love Simon Stålenhag's work and this is a great interview with him.

Simon Stålenhag Shows and Discusses his Fantastic New Sci-fi Paintings

Next Page " Step 1 Following our look at Simon Stålenhag's then-latest set of digital paintings, I got in touch with Simon to learn more about his art - and him as an artist - and between summer breaks I asked him about his influences, his approach to art and just what the hell is going on in his paintings.

Friday, September 9, 2016

Bear Hug Bakery—September Render 1

My first completed piece for September. I learned a lot about optimizing files for render with this one. I got the final render down from 2.5 hours a frame to only half an hour (with a lot of help from Tim Clapham's tutorial at Helloluxx) but the end result still had a flicker in the blurry reflections, so I see a stack of Mac minis in my future to create a render farm. Oh, and just fyi, you can buy a Bear Hug Bakery t-shirt at my t-shirt shop:

Bear Hug Bakery

Mmmm. Baked goods. ___ 100% jersey knit 6oz. fabric weight Pre-shrunk Seamless, double-need ⅞" collar Taped neck and shoulders Classic fit Your...