Greenwater Landscape 01
This is collaboration 01 of 3 with Owlspook, using her fractal Green Water Pond. This is sort of warming up, changing her artwork into a 3D landscape in Vue Esprit; number 01 has a curiously underwater feeling to it.
The artwork was tiled in a 4square pattern two different ways in psd, then each brought into the landscape program and pushed together like this:
Several interesting places were located and test renderings and materials were done over time. Versions 01, 02, and 03 were the most satisfactory.
Greenwater Landscape 01 belongs to the following groups:
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LjMaxx
Beautiful! All of them.. The lighting here is fabulous Syd~ Great collab work!
syd baker replied
Thanks LJ, I keep thinking I’m under the water here, I’ll see if I have any spare fish lying around!
Scott Bricker
very cool! haven’t a clue how you do this stuff…
syd baker replied
It’s really fun, Scott, if you first look at Owlspook’s Greenwater Pond and imagine the lighter parts are tall, and the darker parts are low, then you get bumps from flat.
linaji
what an incredible process.. this is my first.. 2 to go.!
syd baker replied
You can make your own too, 2 white dots and a smile on a black background turns into two soaring pinnacles and a curved cliff far above the ground!
Scott Bricker
heheh, and that’s how ya do it! too modest, Syd….a master of 3d…
syd baker replied
The best way to stay humble is to turn yourself to stoneLike This
Scott Bricker
hmmm so the ‘face on Mars’ is actually you! very clever, Syd!
syd baker replied
Shh, it’s too much fun, everyone will want to do it, Mt Rushmore will never be the same!
LjMaxx
yeah.. it does feel that way some for sure.. Keep treading water.. You’ll make it! :)
syd baker replied
I know, it’s all in my head!
JKKimball
wow Syd! Keep them coming!
syd baker replied
Thank you! By multiplying Owl’s original artwork this way, I soon realized one render wouldn’t be enough, it’s just like wandering around in there with a camera!
Lynda Robinson
You are SUCH a clever fella! I have no understanding whatsoever of the process you use, but the results are spectacular!
syd baker replied
Many thanks!! The one step that makes this work initially is part of the software, the rest is like decorating a mountain and moving the sun and clouds around. Sound like fun?
Linda Callaghan
all lovely!! great art!
syd baker replied
Thank you Linda, it’s a little like wandering around a vacation spot with a camera shooting interesting things, except you decorate the land and atmosphere yourself!
Carmen Cilliers
I’m totally confused by your explanation… I’m a techno retard… but I must say, no matter how you achieved this it is a beautiful image, it reminds me of a fantasy world.
syd baker replied
I don’t blame you, it’s a large magical techno step the program does to make this, the fun is what the artist does next!
JenLand
Very cool Syd! Wonderful collab! Like the lighting, really brings the starkness of the landscape out!! Well done!!
syd baker replied
Thanks Jen, usually it takes a dozen or more light and atmosphere changes to get going, but this was 3rd try, had to go with it!
S McKoy
Syd, I expect to see a submarine at any moment. Love the watery depth quality.
syd baker replied
The light through the mist, all that’s missing is bubbles and fish!
Xadrik
Very Well Executed Sunshine & Perspective.
syd baker replied
Thanks X, seems like half the work is in creating the atmosphere, moving the sun and clouds around is such fun!
Adam Gormley
WOW beautiful work mate, looks awesome!!!
syd baker replied
Thank you Adam, it’s actually a place I can revisit and look around some more!
Luchare
RAWR!! great scene and atmosphere
syd baker replied
Thank you! At last I can find out what some of these fantastic fractals would look like as a little world.
owlspook
underwater world oooo yes … a sea mount almost breaking the water! so cool syd!! amazing what you’re doing with our fractals! (big smile)
syd baker replied
That was accidental and unexpected, but I’ll take full credit none the less! I could go back there and add bubbles, fish, seaweed and perhaps a sunken galleon!
owlspook
hehe … so it’s earth, eh … kinda thought it was somewhere else in the multiverse (grin) ....
syd baker replied
I could put in a sunken rocket ship!! And any continent I can pull out of my bag of tricks is not of this earth!!
owlspook
(big smile) ... of course you can do what you wish .. it’s now your world (big smile) ... have you named your worlds yet? (smile)
syd baker replied
I’d like to go with the fractal name, Greenwater, and since these are all from there, then their current names stand!
adgray
A GORGEOUS composition and the explanation of how it was created turns it all into a stunning EKPHRASIS!!! ☼ BRAVO !! ☼
Chookas! X♥X
syd baker replied
Many thanks! I have just joined, and soon I will put up some pieces, I’ll assume no more than 3 per day would be polite, yes?
owlspook
sounds good to me syd (big smile) ... and as soon as I see yours at Exphrasis I’ll post the ones based on yours (grin) ... I’m going to be posting them asap (gosh I hope I don’t forget to post them to the group! (grin) .. you gonna post them soon? today?
syd baker replied
Went bike riding before the rain, I’ve designated all three for Exphrasis, they are awaiting. Don’t know anyone else who went back and forth with art inspirations as we did!!
adgray
Ok off to moderate shortly! lol Chookas
PS Syd if they are good I’ll take any number lol our group isn’t big enough and the gallery doeskin get flooded enough to require a daily upload limit
and so far people have trusted the hosts to moderate relatively accurately to show off the art in a fair elegant and favourable way I try to have the art in the pages look good beside each other & I never cull !!!
Mind you if it is NOT an ekphrasis we tend to just remove and you can bmail us to clarify That does not mean it’s not good art just that it is NOT an ekphrasis … well not obviously enough!
Chookas! X♥X
syd baker replied
A-OK, I think I get it, I’ve only started doing collaborations, but there’ll be more I’m sure!
owlspook
okie dokie .. I’ll post mine to the group and from adgray’s msg it seems my 5 shouldn’t be too many (I hope) (big smile) usually I space ‘um out but these should be groups actually (smile) ...
I’ve had a lot of fun with our play … hope we can continue (big smile) ... if you see something else of mine you want to play with just let me know (big smile) or if you can make something of the five I made of your three that you made of my one that would even be more cool! (grin)
JohnScottArtist
I like the process of folding through PSd you mention in your explanation, I used this process also and find there is a deeper metaphysical process underpinning a shift in global consciousness that is causing artwork to divide and repeat, much like origami of the mind. great work.
syd baker replied
Thanks! I was thinking about fractals in nature when I first tried this, and a kind of symmetricality of seemingly random shaped elements like rocks and mountains, without just mirroring the finished image itself. This early one centers on a 4-way repeat of a photo of my kitchen cabinets, you can see the outline of the doors and the knobs in the snow:
owlspook
I just read what JohnScott wrote to you and I remembered this:
“what, you ask, was the beginning of it all?
And it is this …
Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being
And plunged into numberless trillions of forms
So that it might
find itself
innumerably.”
—-Sri Aurobindo
When I first saw this quote I thought of the fractal underpinning of that which is everything that is …. the endless infinite self-similar forms that are fractals …
syd baker replied
And that reminds me of a recent conversation with Peter Krauss, how I view people as Galaxies, so much going on, on a cellular level, there’s wars with antibodies, armies of white blood cells, skin cells die and new are grown, the organized chaos of oxygenating the blood in the respiratory system, don’t even get me started on digestion… galaxies, that’s what we are, with a sun in the middle that signals life, and when that sun goes out, the soul departs.
JohnScottArtist
owlspook, I’m working on a series for a show next month, Vesica Piscis, it sounds familiar to your quote.
owlspook
I’ve had the idea that the body was a very large colony of individual organisms all working together .. kinda like a jelly fish with brains (grin) .. but I so like your idea better! and oh oh I do see possibilities for many stories! ... oo oo … here’s a title ‘The Virii Invasion’ ... written from the viewpoint of the Virii of course (grin) ...
syd baker replied
My original idea came from hearing comments of some of our very first astronauts, so overcome by the beauty of our planet from space, can’t see any of the wars, the violence, building, destroying, any of the trillions of human activities, and all those things go on inside us all the time.
Brook Gerard
Great!
syd baker replied
It has gotten so amazing to me to go exploring on a fresh world, it’s like flying around with a camera, sometimes taking 8-12 possible location shots over a couple hours, just like they do in the movies.