phew... collaboration with Nik Roos; www.noisia.nl

nice work Queen-of-Fables, they are very cool, i like mimosa bunnies

beacon, once again very very

Q-O-F, great work. I like your blend of digital and analog media... In a similar spirit to one of our other members, Salviadroid, who's been doing some great blends of hand drawn and computer generated stuff. Great to see so much creative experimentation going on. I'd like to invite you to join our gallery at www.dmt-nexus.me/art ... Please PM me if you're interested.

Beacon, that's really cool, right in the dream zone between realistic and abstract. Those ships remind me of the stealth bomber, not because they look like it but because they seem to evade visual understanding, no matter how long you look at them.

New hard surface turntable WIP's from my piece which will apparently never be finished.

Did most of the initial modeling in Maya (first time, so it was clunky and very cumbersome), and then detailed (such as they are) in ZBrush. The designs were appropriated (or stolen, depending on your point of view) from copper work on the front doors of the Griffith Park observatory - a place I like to frequent with my kid. I've twisted them around a bit, but all thanks to whoever it was who came up with em first!

https://vimeo.com/98113333

link not working for me, art. says it has been deleted?

Sorry, yes. I just updated it with a better render. The new one is up and running.

I love your style Queen-of-Fables, it has an awesome Salvia meets DMT vibe to it IMO

Art, very cool. I like the sort of "historic science" vibe those designs have. Cool that you are functional in Maya now...

i'm done with sci-fi for a bit now thank you.

Unfortunately you do it pretty well...

I'll say.

nuts, great job man.

Wow Art, I'm speechless. You really brought them to life.

Now I have to make sure they're not the last things I look at before going to sleep.

@Queen of Fables- Your work is exquisite! I love how your work has an effortless flow to it. Your symmetry is spot on, even without the help digital manipulation. Very ambitious work that is pleasing to the eyes. Organic mixing with Digital gives it an earthy undertone, complimented by a vibrant fractal overtone.

@Beacon- Your a master at the digital medium. You produce such high quality work that always pushes the pixels of what electricity can handle. Keep them coming!

@Uncle Knucles- Loving your 3D modeling! That Z-Brush seems like it's a lot of fun to work with. You generate so many intricate designs that remind me of some ancient style of architecture. Something Sacred in the works you have there. Are you going to 3D Print those? I feel like 3D Printing will be the new medium of the future. Keep going, you're on the path to something special.

Wish I could post a finished Image for you guys, but a work in progress will have to do for now. I'm very excited for how this ones coming out. I zoomed in quite a bit so that there will still be some element of surprise for the final product. Not sure what to put at the top of the stairs within the statue's chest. Any ideas? Cheers~

@Art Dude I'm diggin that wall. They could totally 3d print that in structural steel and make it self supporting!

Thank you, guys. ZBrush is an unbelievable amount of fun. I highly, highly recommend it. It's also endlessly frustrating, but only in direct relation to my lack of technical know how. The more I learn, the more fun it is and the less I rip my hair out. Every new project brings a lot of aha moments and opens up new possibilities. You've just got to muscle your way up the learning curve, because it's steep and daunting at first.

I would definitely love to 3D print some pieces eventually. It would certainly be cool to have foot tall prints of one or two of my sculpts. But all in time. They're not going anywhere. Right now, I've got my hands full with this. All of these assets are for one still image - ETA end of summer. The next priority is learning to texture and render outside of ZBrush, but this piece will probably all be done (or mostly anyway) in ZBrush.

Anyway, I made the 7th frame last night. Here are updated turntables:

https://vimeo.com/98826526

SalviaDroid, that is looking sweet. I can't wait to see some more teasers.

SalviaDroid, I'm curious how much you're (brilliantly) synthesizing your great art motif with psychedelic motifs, and how much you feel you're drawing on experience...particularly in regard to this last one and one of the other recent ones with the gaping pharaoh mouth imagery for example. Have you seen this serpentine pharonic goddess, or is your personal creativity kicking in pretty hard? I don't want to underplay what you do; I'm simply curious. I can tell that certain features that you draw on have to be authentic, in particular regard to some of the hallmarks of the salvia experience like multiple iterations of things, getting pulled or melting into things, conveyor belts etc...I can tell you're authentic, I'm just curious as to the extent with this new one for example.

This drawing isnt supposed to be psychedelic at all really. I have never seen any pharaoh gods, Im just trying to add certain visionary symbolism and motifs to my picture. Theres something sacred about them to which Im drawn. Ive only tried to directly translate a psychedelic experience once or twice. I think the problem is that I subconsciously incorporate some of the psychedelic motifs into my pictures, so people think im trying directly convey an experience which Im not. I just draw inspiration from them mostly.

I think that the majority of all visionary art is influenced by psychedelics to a greater or lesser extent, rather than being direct translations of visionary experiences. I've been making art my whole life and at this point the psychedelic influences cannot help but be a part of my work, but I've only made a few attempts at translating an experience directly into canvas. It's orders of magnitude more difficult than simply making art that contains references to the experience. I suspect that most visionary artists probably feel the same way.

I have no doubt of all of this. SalviaDroid simply seems to zone into my version of hyperspace so much more effectively than many other visionary artists, that I just had to ask