Now:
Ah, an early experiment in photo manipulation with Corel Photo-Paint. Making her face into the black-blue-green-red of an oil slick was fun, as my little way of getting one step closer (so it seemed at the time) to the superlative techno style of Rick Berry. Too bad the rest of the piece is so lackluster.
Then:
Rick Berry has long been one of my art idols, and his cover to Neuromancer, along with a few of his other works, were part of the inspiration for this image.
Now:
When I look at this piece I think of the old inspirations that planted the idea for it, especially Darrel Anderson‘s excellent illustrations for the Shadowrun Virtual Realities sourcebook. I also see many weaknesses in technique, particularly camera placement, lighting, and texturing. Though it was definitely still a fun piece to make.
Now:
Unfortunately this is not a piece that has aged well. It has some sentimental value as my first 3d image but the flaws are glaring now. Still it was, at the time, a worthwhile attempt at getting into (and succeeding, in that regard) an art gallery show, still my only participation in a show to this day.
Now:
Wow, is this old. I guess when I was starting out with digital art I decided that a high level of control implied and required a high level of tedium. Because that’s what it was, creating all those individual scales, especially late in the project when one edit required a screen redraw that took 30 seconds+ to fill in all the other gradient polygon scale objects (this was the days of working on a Pentium 75MHz machine, after all).
3D Metropolis has been my personal art gallery, animation showcase, occasional audio dump and writing outlet plus more for years. In more recent years it has been too cumbersome to maintain and was sorely in need of an overhaul.
