I’ve realised recently that I should profile some of my absurdly talented friends and colleagues. Kicking off this series is Lilian Darmono who has just done an interview with Australian Edge and talks about her aesthetic style, her life and general philosophies.
Lilian describes her own style in the interview as;
“…cute, colourful, so-sweet-it-makes-your-teeth-hurt characters/enviroment/situations, the kind that fills you with hope and positivity when you look at them, and the flipside : organic and natural forms which fills you with awe and dread at the same time.”
I love Lilian and partner-in-crime Mungo’s designs – they’re so much fun with a great sense of whimsy and I’m very much looking forward to Lilian’s short, Dusk, which we are getting a taste of in the image above.
This article caught my eye over at iso50 talking about Alex Roman’s work on highly realistic architectural renderings. Earlier this year I saw some very similar work by Alessandro Prodan and was amazed at the quality of the work that is being produced by a single person with off-the-shelf software and technologies (3DS Max, Maya, mental ray, Vray, paint effects etc).
However, it is the lighting – as these images illustrate – that is nine-tenths of the law in creating a realistic render. The light in these images is glorious. And it’s the imperfections in that light that make these images. The light blooms in the sky, the highlights clip on the leaves and the lens creates chromatic aberrations and vignettes (must look in to those mental ray lens shaders…) which is what takes the images from ‘kind of nice’ CG to ‘amazing’ CG.
More work from Alex Roman can be found over at Third and Seventh.
I’ve been listening to the new Kings of Convenience album, Declaration of Dependence, and am obsessed with the beautiful track “Riot on an Empty Street”. Can’t get it out of my head…
I turned 26 a week ago. It was a rather quiet one. I sometimes wish the future me would send a message to the present me; it would make me appreciate more what I have in the present. Nothing specific, of course, as I don’t want to ruin the surprise.
Basically I just want to know what the 30 year old me would say.
I’ve just been having a little bit of fun doing my own posters of Wes Anderson quotes as inspired by Alex Cornell. More after the break. See also the slideshow on flickr.
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