Randy design | The Works of Randall E. Church | Cinema/Flash: Photo Manipulation Print Series. Cinema/Flash – Photo Manipulation Print Series Role: concept, script, design; collaborative project conceived with Ayaka Ito In the second round of the “Cinema Flash Showdown” project Ayaka Ito and I wanted to pursue two new themes: The Influence of Occupations, and Man vs. Nature. By shooting each environment with and without the model, I would mask the model from the background. Then using my Flash drawing app I'd create 3D splines which were then imported into Cinema 4D. We used HDRI sphere lighting shot on location, as well as skin and cloth materials used in texturing. The final 3D render contained an alpha channel to mask the model back into their background. Our collective series were printed (12x18”) and displayed at our class gallery show in Rochester.
Cindermedusae. My experiments for writtenimages.net – a generative book. All these creatures were generated by an algorithm controlled by number of parameters that can be randomized and animated. The look was inspired by amazing works of Ernst Haeckel. Background Recently I was working on a project about underwater life. In this case we used 3d models so the immediately when I heard about Written Images I thought "Let's make something more generative and organic". I did some research and was amazed how big jellyfish can grow so I decided to make one. At the beginning I was aiming for super realistic look but after stumbling upon works by Ernst Haeckel and his amazing book "Kunstformen der Natur" I knew that this is the way to go.
Short algorithm description: The base for the whole creature is the head made out of deformed sphere. To output images at hi-res print quality I decided to use OpenGL and new library called Cinder . Some more pictures: New version animated on the GPU: One of animated sketches: “Body> illustrations 2″ Home : MORPHOLOGIC. MRKism. Pixelart | Patrick Dehen Grafik-Design.