Sunday 16 August 2009

Concentric Ribbons


ConcRibbons02
Originally uploaded by Ian Gavin

This one of three images - all made in Cinema 4D. The technique is very similar to the concentric circles. It needed something else though so I added the 'noise', which is actually an exploded cube with the fragments rounded using hyper-nurbs.

I may animate this. A fly-through could work well.

Monday 10 August 2009

Stripey Goo r4_4_0124b


Stripey Goo r4_4_0124b
Originally uploaded by Ian Gavin

I'm very pleased with the results of these things. There is a 'trick' to making them and they're not drawn one bezier curve at a time but I'm not saying any more than that.

The parallels with Op Art of the 60s is quite nice too.

Motion303


Motion303
Originally uploaded by Ian Gavin

This is an attempt to collage some 3D elements together in photoshop, use some of my own custom photoshop brushes (background) and use some photoshop splatter brushes.

The results were OK so I pulled the whole thing into Illustrator and put some of my own custom elements and funky blend lines in.

My own 303 logo and typography was added at the end.

The result is a little bit clichéd but a least I've had a go.

I may do myself a poster print of this one and/or lay some more vector elements in at a later date.

Monday 3 August 2009

Concentric Circles from a 3D model


CC01, originally uploaded by Ian Gavin.

The outcome of this particular experiment is not very original, I know, but the technique enables me to generate this along with variations in seconds.

Its made in Cinema 4D by exploding three sets of simple lines (in this case from typography outline vector of a letter 'B') and lathe rotating the through 360 degrees. There are plenty of variables involved that can be easily adjusted to change the result (eg. the explosion speed)

The fact that makes the resulting image interesting (to me) is the way the light falls on the rings. Some are lit right to left and others visa versa. This is because the exploded line fragments are rotating perpendicular to the image plane so some of the resulting rings are concave and others are convex. The colour variations are a result of this effect also.

See more like this at http://www.flickr.com/photos/iangavin/