Apr
11
Some People Get Dogs…
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.
Apr
01
Walnut Street Velociraptor
This was an exercise in integrating a 3D computer model into a real world photo with at least somewhat realistic lighting and shadows. I shot the photo with my phone cam, and modeled, textured, and rendered the octopus in Blender. A little bit of post-processing was done in GIMP. Began and completed in one afternoon.
May
01
Octopus vs. Velociraptor – T-Shirts!
Do you like Octopuses? How about Dinosaurs?
Then check out this new T-shirt I designed. That’s right – it’s an Octopus eating a Velociraptor in a tree.
(note: this is a compressed jpeg version – the original and t-shirts are much higher quality).
Buy this T-shirt at the
Laughing Mantis Zazzle store.
You can get it in black or white (or multiple other colors I believe).
It’s basically a re-rendering of my detailed digital artwork “Octopus arborealus”
Jun
05
“Ocean Invasion #1: Octopus arborealus,” Daniel D. Brown, 2010
A fantastical tree octopus dining on velociraptor.
This is the first in a series of pieces, “Ocean Invasion,” which finds ocean creatures living in absurd land habitats.
Jun
04
“K-T”
“K-T”
The Cretacious-Tertiary Boundary
Sixty-five million years ago, a daily struggle occurs in the midst of the world-changing event that would result in the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs and the rise of our own lineage of mammals. The layer of rock demarkating the end of the Cretaceous and beginning of the Tertiary is known by geologists as the “K-T Boundary.” The mammals in this case are “cynodonts” – our ancestors in the late Cretaceous. This took me three weeks to create, using Blender and GIMP software packages.
CLICK HERE to see how this piece (and generally all my 3D art) is made.