Office building
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@lewiswadsworth said:
@unknownuser said:
@kevsterman said:
I promised myself I would not let it become a decade.
I did...it becomes harder and harder to get people to take one and one's art degree seriously, the longer one coasts on it. After 11 years I couldn't stand it and I went and got a grad degree in architecture.
I actually contemplated doing that myself about two years ago. Studying architecture, I mean. In retrospect, I'm glad I didn't, as I'm not all that interested in architecture. It's the artistic appropriation of it's vocabulary and means that I'm interested in.
@lewiswadsworth said:
This is very interesting, stinkie (can you give us a real name, sometime?). There's a kind of an exacting minimalism...almost grim and reinforced by the gray color scheme...that suits the High Modern subject matter very well...and yet you're marketing it not as architectural visualization but as an art object unto itself.
My name is Tom. And as for the grimness - I'm a fairly gloomy person.
As for marketing this kind of thing as art, I'm surprised there's not heaps of people doing the same. There's a long and fruitful tradition of artists borrowing from architecture. (De Chirico, Gregor Schneider, Manfred Pernice, Jockum Nordström, Toba Khedoori - to name but a few.), and modeling/rendering's a fantastic medium for an artist. (I wish I'd discovered it earlier, as I've known for quite a bit what I wanted to do.)
Modernism ... there's a sense of ideals lost and promises not quite fulfilled about (some) modernist building that I find quite appealling - and worth mining. Look at pictures of Brasilia, and tell me they don't render you pensive and melancholic.
@lewiswadsworth said:
I would be tempted to fill the image a bit more and crop it around the structures...but then, you might lose the implied assertion that this building was conceived of as an object alone, as opposed to part of an environmental and built context (one of the sins of which High Modern architects are now often accused).
There was in fact more in the image at first. Didn't work - or at least not in the way I wanted it to. Cropping around the structures - wouldn't that mean you'd ignore the negative space? Doesn't seam like a good idea, in this case.
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Model needs tweaking. Word of advice: it is generally best to get your models right before you let them render for 40 hrs. Stinkie hits himself in the head while cursing loudly in Dutch: "Dom stuk vreten!"
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wow thats really big. one of the huge render image i have seen
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Which programme did you use to render them?
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I used Maxwell.
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I like it Stinkerd!
I wouldn't make the remark, but since you seem to aim for purism, the composition might be improved some more. (I am picking on a detail here ).
With all the orthogonality going on, I even would expect a full frontal (no, not nude
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Not a detail, KB. Fairly important in this case. So thanks for the comment. I was in fact planning on choosing another composition, but not a "full frontal" one. More along these lines (quick V-Ray render; did some additional work on model too):
Oh yeah: I printed the first image I posted in this thread on photographic paper (cropped somewhat differently, though). Looks fantastic (errr ... in my opinion). Can't wait to have it printed at full-scale.
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I call this one "Lick My Grain". That, or "Kompozition nr. 12". No, wait! The title is "I've Always Hated Franz Kline For Having Already Done Something I Wanted To Do". Hell ... I'll just go with "No Title". Or, possibly, with "My Meatloaf Is Good Meatloaf". Choices, choices.
This is not the final image. Cooking other version.
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hi tom,
there is a miesian touch to these images that i like very much.
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Phaidon's "Mies van der Rohe at work" never leaves my sight. There's a couple of pictures of scale models in there that take my breath away.I say: steal from the best.
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Another one. Still a fair deal to do.
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Desolate, but not dead...
Subtle.
Dry, but with a twist.(I'm starting to formulate my comments in the style of your images
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Think Spilliaert. Think Spilliaert's Ostend - after the devastating building boom of the sixties and seventies. That feel.
Hm. Cryptic. More coffee.
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Started on something new. Far from finished.
Anyone know how to improve Vray's antialiasing?
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Thats a pretty cool looking clay model effect.
Now you are using Vray?
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Thanks. That's just the default mat. Who needs textures?
You ever used Maxwell for interiors?
I want to to make a series out of this, and I'd like to finish it before the end of the decade. Fun app, Vray. And all things considered, not that hard to use. Still prefer Maxwell for some things, though. (And Indigo - but it just uses too much RAM.)
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Why do I always have 5 things going at the same time? Must focus.
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hey..that's very nice.. very detailed..
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