CGTalk - New member intro

Quadart

01-11-2007, 01:49 PM

Hello everyone. I am a new member here thanks to the prodding of my good friend and longtime member here, JoelD. I've been visiting this site for some time and finally decided to jump in. I will post some work for feedback as soon as I am able. I guess a couple more posts are required before I am allowed to put up images. If anyone is interested they can view my portfolio site below. It is geared towards the science textbook market.
I also had a dragonfly image published in the November 2006 issue (US) of 3D World magazine's exhibition gallery on page 14.
Meanwhile I"ll enjoy some more of the great work on this site.

Mac:PPC dual 2.7/C4Dr10 SB w Mograph/ZBrush/Modo/Vue6/Terregen

http://www.billmelvinart.com/

Bezerker75

01-11-2007, 07:49 PM

Hey Bill,

Welcome aboard!! Nice looking portfolio you have there! I just joined in the fun a few months back and got Cinema 4D...what a great program!! Say hey to JoelD for me next time you speak to him. He works for the studio I used to work at. Again welcome and look forward to more posts!

~Mike

AdamT

01-11-2007, 08:11 PM

Welcome! Any friend of JoelD's is a friend of mine. :)

Kuroyume0161

01-11-2007, 08:12 PM

Welcome to CGTalk and the Cinema 4D forum!

Wow! Incredible illustrations there - a portfolio to be proud of.

Robert

Joseppi

01-11-2007, 08:39 PM

Welcome Bill!

Impressive portfolio, especially the traditional media. It's great to see the artisistic talent coming through so plainly. (The seagull caught me eye!). You have some good art chops there! I would like to follow your further move into 3D.

On the technical (body) art, like the eyeball, you listed C4D, Illustrator and PS... The bodies seemed to be based on 3D models, but some of the others, I couldn't necessarily spot the 3D elements... Not that that is bad, just curious... what is the Cinema role on some of the art that looks more like traditional Illustrator?

Nice work, and welcome!
Joe

JoelOtron

01-12-2007, 01:00 AM

Hey Bill--glad you finally made it here :)

Like Adam said, any friend of JoelD is a friend of mine too, ...er something.

vid2k2

01-12-2007, 01:14 AM

Welcome Bill,

Very nice work.

Quadart

01-12-2007, 01:49 AM

Thanks for the warm welcome. I should have jumped on board long ago.

Joseppi, to try to answer your question, basically what doesn't look 3d isn't 3d (usually) in the work you saw on the site. The captions on some of the images need to be more clear.
'Illustrator' means I used Illustrator to create the splines like the shapes that make up the
globe, lens and cornea of that eye cutaway for example. I don't think Ai splines can be beat
for control. The veins and fleshy textures are PS. There's a lot of PS retouch throughout to save time. I use anything handy in illustration work, unless it's style spefific.
Thanks again everyone.

PS—I must have shot JoelD 50 emails asking him what to do next with this forum stuff.
Thanks dude.

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