One of the best ways to learn, improve, and challenge ourselves creatively is to study great artists. Remember Picasso famously said, "Good artists copy. Great artists steal."
Ok, obviously literal stealing is not Picasso's point. Instead the insight of his quote is to get in the habit of admiring and analyzing esteemed artists. In this stream we're doing exactly that; focusing on one of my favorite 3D artists: beeple. We'll look at his background, sift through his body of work, and discuss his artistry/technique.
Beeple is famous for creating an image (usually 3D and always incredible) from start to finish every day for 10 years - and he's still going by the way. Read that sentence again. Besides his absurd ability to create quickly, he's above all a gifted artist. His #everydays work is a deep well of abstract visuals, realism, voice, composition, emotion, etc. Trust me: There is much to learn from studying beeple.
I'm beginning to "know" Blender.
the fastest software is the one you know inside out...
I'd probably take TWO days just to develop the concept!
Yeah I would say his computer has more to do with the quickness then the software
I suppose how "fast" you can make something in a given software is mostly a function of how practiced you are at using it.
Me too!
Is octane particularly fast?
Well after taking a CG Cookie course now I look at this and right away think "array modifier" ;-) but its beautiful!
William, he renders with Octane and he has several GPUs (I think like 5 1080ti's). So you could say he doesn't have to worry to much about render times. Besides that, no.
I'm just wondering if there are tools in whatever software he uses that makes the detail less manual to make