Art inspired by biology, created by a biologist
During my fiance’s last visit to Pittsburgh, I took a bunch of photo’s of her in a clover field. This image popped into my head and I just had to make it. Her photograph was inserted into a fully modeled 3D digital enviroment in Blender, with post-processing in GIMP.
I made two versions: one in vivid color and one with a more old-timey feel.
This is a work I did in Blender in 10 minutes just playing with the new hair rendering features in the cycles engine.
I made this earlier this year but didn’t get around to posting it. This is the famous “Dippy” diplodocus sculpture that stands outside the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which is easily my favorite place to visit in Pittsburgh, PA. Some new friends just strolled in from Schenley Plaza.
I modeled the diplodocus dinosaurs in Blender, photographed the museum and statue with my iPhone, and did texturing and compositing in GIMP. This was an exercise in integrating a 3D computer model into a real world photo with at least somewhat realistic lighting and shadows.
My buddy RJ‘s pet velociraptor.
I shot the photo with my phone cam, and modeled, textured, and rendered the dinosaur in Blender. A little bit of post-processing was done in GIMP.
“Ocean Invasion #12: We’ve Got Crabs”
Blue crabs invade my friends’ apartment building. Note: In the original photo there is a street where there is now water.
This is the 12th in a series of pieces, “Ocean Invasion,” which finds ocean creatures living in absurd land habitats.
Photo taken with iPhone cam. Crabs modeled in Blender (with reference photo help from Dr. Tom Shultz, molecular biologist at the Duke Marine Conservation Molecular Facility and Amy Frietag of the “Southern Fried Science” blog and Duke Marine Lab). Textured and post-processing in GIMP.
