YF Hornet

This work is amazingly and wonderfully intricate! I love it :)

Thank you both. It was designed to be printed on A2 so there’s a lot more detail than you can see on this site.

Wow. What a FANTASTIC composition…

Out of this world! I love it.

F%@$ING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very beautiful design, love the details and especially the colors!

Really cool,great image

This is just incredible!! Love the book of kells celtic designs. An Irish Hornet…...remember the green hornet with Bruce Lee :o)

this is fantastic i love it you are very clever

This is powerful stuff
Love it
Well done xXx

Thanks a mil Peyote.

Wonderful modern composition. Great clarity of details and colors. This is an instant favorite for me.

Adequate for a dangerous warrior like a hornet. Never mess with this one :-)
And even on this scale there are a lot of details to find.

I am saving for a Wacom tablet. Very pricey but well worth it. I don’t want to purchase a cheap tablet. You might as well throw your money away. I love your workmanship. Beautiful.

Great concept. Going to expand on the book of Kells idea?

wow!!!!

very good work well done

Awesome work! nice border design aswell.

its awesome Simon!

your welcome Simon!

nice one! great detail work!

Quite an interesting image. Parts of it are obviously 3d but the border of the image is that fascinates me. You use one software program for this?

Makes sense now that it is a composite. You mentioned earlier splines are like paths in vector programs. I’m unfamiliar with 3d programs. Are splines a common device in 3d or unique to 3ds max? I use Linux and have been eyeing Blender for a while but haven’t had the time to take on the learning curve.

Paths are easier to use and less accurate. Basically every line has to be a complete loop. If there are two breaks its reasonably easy to trace and put right but if there’s only one you might as well be looking into a field of thistles cos its a bitxch to find. Different programs have different ways of doing them but they’re essentially how a lot of programs thinks about curves. Nodes an all that.

I’m liking all your work- this one is particularly fascinating.

Brilliant!
Masterpiece!

Thanks to Marina for pointing you out, this is stunning… all the details, must have taken you ages to create this. Is this all done on pc or how? instant fav for me.

hats off to you for all the ‘hard’ work lol but i am deeply impressed.

thats awesome dude

Hornets scare the shit out of me! but this picture rocks.

M

You’re lucky, i’ve seen far too many, I had one in the bathroom the other day…the noise they make is something else ;)

M

True though, coming back as one wouldn’t be bad, their known as the Bird’s of prey of the Insect world, hardly anything fucks with them.

M

If I lived where you do I’d have a badminton racquet or a 9mm handy to deal with them.
I like France actually, took the bike across it three years ago and everybody was really nice to us on the road or in the towns.
See here
à bientôt.
S

LOL it’s funny you should mention badminton rackets, I find them most effective ;)
Fly swatters do nothing against these flying fiends, it only makes them more angry, there is alwasy fly spray, but by the time their on the floor, you’re practically ltying next to them, the amount you have to use. France is a glorious country, though it is not my own, i’m actually from London orginally, the people here howeverare a lot more friendly than those back home.

M

P.S. great pics by the way.

excellent composition

I love the portion of words I was able to read in your close up shot on the right, I suppose on an enlarged A2 printed version they’d all read clearly wouldn’t they? This is an incredible image, the more I look at it, the more I see embedded within it, you’ve gone to an immense amount of trouble to overlay it with intricate, little pictures and details… I think I see words in there too, but it’s late, so I could be hallucinating! lol

Is the entire thing created in Max? Shit, I haven’t got the patience with that thing! It’s too mathematical and has too big a learning curve for me to be patient with, I just stick with Flash and Photoshop. Have you ever used Bryce for landscaping or Poser for modeling?

well you’ve learnt it well then! going by the quality of your work, I don’t have the patience to stick out software programmes as technical as that, there’s too much thinking involved! lol. Have you ever done animated work? Like made your hornet fly? :-)

I’m not sure what I can say to this piece. What can do it proper justice? Its a roller coaster floating in a galaxy of yellow and black poisoned precision and detail. Its flat fantastic is what it is.

Did you know the sting of the hornet in Europe is among the most non-venomous, BUT that the hornet in East Asia is THE most venomous insect sting and can be lethal even to those who are not allergic? I know this because there are two hornet nests being built on the eaves of my house as we speak and prior to ringing the pest control folks I did me a little research. Lesson: Put visiting any East Asian countries toward the bottom of that ‘places I must visit’ list.

Well thank you very much. I’ve thought for a longtimethat they were easily the most bad-ass insect and I love the yellow and blackness of them. Just like a motorbike copper I don’t like being near them but I’d love to be one for a day.

This is fantastic:)

you should definitly do more of this stuff its amazing man

Very cool!

Effective work

love this! great detail

IF YOU USED ANYTHING DIGI HERE. WE WANT IT..!!THE WRITING ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS IS SUPERB!

Fabulous image. Like a animal/insect tarot card.

Good point. Thank you. I don’t think I could do 52 of these though, its was months going together on and off.

Don’t thnk I could add anything that hasn’t been said already. Excellent stuff, especially the details.

I meant to add a reply about Phil Lynott – I saw Thin Lizzy at the Rainbow in London – that shows you how old I am. Great band.

Fantastic work!!

wonderful, I love it.

You gotta admire your metal. Cracking imagery!!

Now that you’ve got me all dizzy I’m going to sit down for a minute till my head lands. Whit; all techy & here’s me still tryin to figure out how to hold a pencil. I use CS2 & I don’t mean the gas. Its all self taught & I know very little in real terms. I probably do things all arse for tit as they say but I get there in my own way. Its all very clever & it floats my boat. Well done you!! LOL

This is wonderful!

awesome !!!

This is wonderful…

I am looking forward to seeing your new creation.

Im scared to death of hornets…but your right!! who messes with them? not ME!!!!
well done composition, great color and symmetry!

DELIGHTFUL…...

Can you email my LINK to all your friends please, thanks so much!
My Poto Gallery:
Irishpixgallery

JFC! Afuckingmazing!!!

I’m twittering you too

Stunning work , love the details.

Great piece and I agree with Al…the details are amazing and it’s a very beautiful work!

This is an intense piece, I like it very much.
I somehow missed it when posted.

fantastic work

very cool !

cool piece – mq

Brilliant! The yellow fury in person :)

funny ^^

Outsanding Instant fav!

I have never seen anything like that before. It is so marvellous.

That is freakin awesome man!!! Your good at creating cards, nice!!!

ahhh yes..this.. xxx

sting me and i’m in trouble but quite captivating all the same…..

incredible design. truly unique. a vibrant imagination at work. this is simply beautiful to behold. bravo.

Fascinating really and gorgeous all at once.

amazing!!! very beautiful!!!

Around here hornets hang around blooming Yucca plants, they’re like small airplanes, bad tempered, but snappy dressers. Do you have any other 3D work?? The rivits are amazing!

very very nice! great comp – LOTS of work! xoxox