GigaGirl

in OnChainArt3 years ago

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It's been a minute. Life and work consume most of my time these days and without some dedicated time to myself it can be hard for me to get in the proper head space to create. I lucked out here because I happened to fall asleep really early then wake up in the middle of the night when my two little incredibly loud and distracting shadows are sleep. So I woke up at 2 AM refreshed and ready to continue working on this piece I started earlier today.

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If anyone ever reads the text in my posts you'd know I usually do my 3D work in Cinema4D and Octane render, but I did this one with Maya and Arnold. I've been experimenting with the Arnold toon shader and it's so damn cool. The Octane toon shader is trash and Cinema4D has a really powerful native toon shader, but it has 5000 knobs and sliders and I can never get exactly what I want. The Arnold one just works. The downside is I have to do CPU rendering which is literally something like 50x slower on my machine.

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Along with Maya and Arnold another tool that I've been trying to integrate more into my workflow is Black Magic Fusion. It's a node based compositor and works a lot better than After Effects if you're primarily doing 3D compositing work. Nuke is the industry standard for this sort of thing, but Fusion is free and I think it's great for indie peeps like myself.

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I think I'm in a bit of a weird place with my work currently. Most of the things I've wanted to learn in regards to skills and techniques, I've learned. Of course there's always more, more, more, but I'm really feeling like I need to chill out on learning new stuff and just produce a ton of work with what I know.

Considering my skillbase is super broad, I feel like I need to consolidate and hone in on what it is that will make my work mine. How I can incorporate all this stuff in interesting ways. How I can be honest in my expression. All that jazz.

So with this piece I'm trying to explore that a bit. There are 3D elements, 2D elements, but I'm thinking mostly about the graphic design and just making something appealing. I'll probably hate it tomorrow, but I don't today, so gotta take the wins where you get em. Anyhoo...

I'll probably try to brave the gas fees when the sun comes up on my side of the world and tokenize this. Hive fam gets the first look as usual. Hope you like! See you on the next one.

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I am trying to think whats the artifact worth without the story.
The story is always part.
Anyway this artifact is glorious by itslef.

Thanks @amirl. There's always a story behind every piece because there is a person behind every piece that made it. All their experiences and life before that contributed to that piece and it's unique and all their own. They may chose to spell that story out for the viewer or just simply express it with their art.

Shared with my sister (my favourite artist ;) ).
I love the red sun above, something so powerful in this and yet so fragile.

Fragile is not the right word, delicate maybe? Not sure. Thanks again and for replying to my comment.

This is lovely🥰🥰

Glad you like!

Fantastic

Thanks!

Holy heck, this is an amazing piece of art! So well done!

Thanks @howwwwl! I appreciate it.

This is lovely!

Glad you like :)

I love it! Amazing piece

Woooooooooooooooow this is professional. <3 <3 <3 <3

Nice work looks very creative!!

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Beautiful work. What I like the most is the red light reflecting in her body.

Thanks @alejandra.her, as I was experimenting with different stuff that was one thing where I was like "YES, that's a keeper" hehe.

I love it!

 3 years ago  

Wow, this is son incredible!! Love the little details :D I can't believe this is 3D, looks painted <3

This is so monumental... I think apart from all the great texture, posture, shading, etc. also the angle of view makes it noble. And I feel this is the angle that brings up all the hard work behind, to the surface.

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