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Biotop from Polygonia
This is my second set for Neonmob. I had to choose for a subject who could lead to a lot of possible variations. I've always loved insects and I use them as subjects for macro photo for years now. So this theme came quite logically. I wanted the set to look like entomology plates used to expose insect's collections in museums.
So I imagined species who live in a polygonic planet. Some are inspired by terrestrial species, some not. Each species has four to eight specimens coming from different sub-species.
I've started on Cinema 4D by creating a "species basis" who has all particularities of the species (extra legs, wings,...). I used some deformers (displacer, polygon reduction) in order to give the species his overall shape. Then I created each specimen by shifting some parameters on the deformers. Afterward, I rendered each specimen in Cinema 4D and postworked with Photoshop.
The set is really huge, the biggest set I ever made : 100 different insects + 100 night versions of the same insects + some surprises if you collect the set on Neonmob :)
So this is just a small part of the full set, which is available on NeonMob exclusively !
2014
Digital Art, Illustration
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Shapes in Nature
This is a personal project meant to experiment erosion on procedural terrains. The goal of the project was to find a good way to import terrains from World Machine into Vue. The process was long and boring because I wanted to get a very precise terrain. So each terrain is made from two tiles of 8K (for a total of 16K x 8K). This allowed me to get enough resolution, even if the tiling option was not perfect (some artifacts appeared on the tile line). So I had to postwork each picture on Photoshop in order to get rid of the tiling artifacts.
2014
Digital Art, Illustration
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Strange Attractors
I wanted to create a series of pictures representing mathematical shapes on white background, like a "tribute to mathematics" that I often use in my work. I chose the "strange attractors" for their dynamic forms and "chaotic feel". Because I'm not a mathematician, I relied on several sites. Including one especially, very complete with free plugins for Cinema 4D making possible to configure these shapes easily. The site is in German, but Google translate did the job very well, so many thanks to the author !
2013
Digital Art, Illustration
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Flowing City Map
I made this series for an exhibition on the theme of the identity of cities and their inhabitants. The exhibition takes place in Venice, it started December 15 and lasts one month (http://www.itsliquid.com/opening-contemporary-venice.html). The final pictures are 70cm square, printed on acrylic glass.
I wanted to represent the influence of cities on their environment as a kind of invisible fluid that overflows from the city to its surrounding.
I retrieved city maps which I then used in World Machine as if they were 3D terrain. I've mixed the maps with procedural terrains in order to get the erosion flow I wanted. I then retrieved the "erosion flow map" and I postworked it in Photoshop to give a unique identity to each city.
2014
Digital Art, Illustration
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Radiolaria Index
I've been requested by Neonmob (a trading-card social network), to make a big set of more than 100 pictures. As I had freedom on the subject, I searched for base shapes that I could vary sufficiently so there’d be a relationship, and yet each shape would be different from all the others. I ended up representing an index of fake radiolaria inspired by SEM imagery and the incredibly detailed illustrations of Ernst Haeckel.
I've started only with geometric base shapes in TopMod, a topological mesh modeling software (although it’s no longer developed, this free, useful software has unique functionality).
I then took these shapes into Cinema 4D for fine tuning and rendering, and finalized the image in Photoshop.
2013
Digital Art, Illustration
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Eroded Leaves
While I was working with World Machine on a personal project, I noticed the very detailed images generated by the flow map of the erosion device. So I tried to use the flow map as a final image rather than its usual use of texture map for a 3D terrain.
The general appearance of the flow map made me think of the veins of a leaf. So I used this similarity to create a series of "eroded leaves".
Flow map from World Machine, then postworked on Photoshop.
2012
Digital Art, Illustration
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Crystallized Asteroïds
Asteroïds made using the "planet mode" of e-on Vue 8 in conjuction with procedural terrains, making possible the creation of unlimited unique Asteroïds with the same functions.
Series of picture realized with Vue 8, postwork with Photoshop.
2012
Digital Art
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Mandeloculars
The idea of this series was born when I discovered the software Mandelbulber. I spent many hours walking randomly through the presets included with the software. I made many renders that looked like macro photos of a strange tiny world. So I decided to amplify the "macro" effect on Photoshop.
3D fractals rendered with Mandelbulber. Postwork with Photoshop.
2012
Digital Art
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White Trees
Trees and terrain generated with Vue. I started by creating the terrain and then I searched for the tree that would best suited to each of them.
Series made with Vue, postwork with Photoshop.
2012
Digital Art
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Caustic Icebergs
Following a project for a client, which involved an iceberg, I wanted to create a series on this theme. I used Acropora ("a procedural voxel modeler" from Voxelogic) to generate several icebergs starting from the same base and varying some parameters. I did the same for the "bodies of water" and I imported them into Vue for a caustic rendering. I then had to make several renderings for each image in order to obtain the dusty-glowing horizon line break I was looking for.
Objects (icebergs and water) made with Acropora, rendering with E-on Vue, compositing and effects with Photoshop.
2013
Digital Art, Illustration
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Taraxacum Seed Head
This is a one-day project made for fun. I just wanted to spend some time taking pictures.
Postworked on photoshop.
2013
Digital Photography
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Low-Poly Butterflies
I was experimenting with the "polygon reduction" modifier from Cinemas 4D when I had the idea of making this series of butterflies. I started from a simple triangle polygon, I divided it and added a lot of modifiers. Then I used the same setup for the font with some adjustments in order to obtain a "nearly too low-poly but readable" look.
Modeling and rendering with Cinema 4D, postwork with Photoshop
2013
Digital Art, Illustration
