Art inspired by biology, created by a biologist
A voracioius lionfish on the heels of a springbok in the African savannah.
This is the ninth in a series of pieces, “Ocean Invasion,” which finds ocean creatures living in absurd land habitats.
This piece was inspired by a marine biologist friend who is currently studying these invasive fish in Hawaii (Christie Wilcox of the popular “Science Sushi” blog at Discover Magazine).
Detail:
Squid tend to their paper nest amidst the Spanish moss of a southern bayou.
This is the eighth in a series of pieces, “Ocean Invasion,” which finds ocean creatures living in absurd land habitats.
The Manta Rays take up their seasonal invasion.
This is the seventh in a series of pieces, “Ocean Invasion,” which finds ocean creatures living in absurd land habitats.
The following images are renders of my “Ocean Invasion” series, with only the geometry visible (no textures, fur, grass, lighting).
For those of you “in the know,” these were made using approximate Ambient Occlusion on objects with the default shader, and with all objects duplicated and each duplicate object shaded with a Z-offset wire material.
there were many more images here… but they seem to have disappeared from my server. Perhaps I will attempt to replace them some day. Unlikely.
The jellies come out beneath a full moon.
This is the sixth in a series of pieces, “Ocean Invasion,” which finds ocean creatures living in absurd land habitats.