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Work in progress

CG Workshop - Becoming a better artist with Robert Chang August 24, 2010 Abstract-02-1-smallFor the next 8 weeks, I will be taking this workshop : "Becoming a better artist with Robert Chang". This class looks like the 'kick in the pants' I need to move on to the next stage in my painting. Here is the abstract from the CGWorkshop page : In...

More fingerpainting October 10, 2009 fingerpainting-cleo-smallAnother attempt at using Colors on the iPhone. This is supposed to represent the profile of a cat. Fortunately, the cat who served as a model had nothing to say about the likeness of the painting. About 45 minutes. Tilt controlled opacity is a major feat...

GNOMON Master Classes October 10, 2009 gnomon-logo  From November 9th to 23rd 2009, the GNOMON School of Visual Effects will be holding two weeks of online classes, featuring artists such as Craig Mullins, Feng Zhu or Ian McCaig. For more details and to register - GNOMON Master Classes...

iPhone fingerpainting October 1, 2009 fingerpainting-faceMy first serious attempt at using Colors on the iPhone. Just playing around at this point. No model were used or harmed during this experiment. About 35 minutes. ...

Daughter of the wind April 10, 2009 week03-01-female-015Exercise from the Face and Figure Painting workshop with Don Seegmiller....

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Wordpress deambulation January 20, 2012 At last, a Wordpress theme I can use pretty much out of the box. Clean, stylish, functional... what more to ask. Now on to migrating galeries, thumbnails and other Wordpress niceties......

TED| Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity September 20, 2011 TED  Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity   Create ...

TED| Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously June 20, 2011 echelman ...

BETTER THINGS: The Life & Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones February 5, 2011 jonesCheck out the teasers of this documentary. They cover already a lot of good insights on what it means to be an Artist but great illustrators, painters and writers. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1948808029/better-things-the-life-and-choices-of-...

Procrastination buster October 9, 2010 Lifehacker has a whole featured category about fighting procrastination. First steps: Visualize how you spend your time with time tracking or a log Focus on what you actually do first, and not on open ended vague to-do lists Make room for b...

Inspirational image collections October 17, 2009 xmas-lights11 Inspirational Image Collections selected by the Digital Photography School (Image by Rachel Sian)...

35 Years of the World's Best Microscope Photography October 11, 2009 nikon2009popularThe results of the 2009 Nikon Small World competition were the occasion for Wired to celebrate 35 years of fantastic microscope imagery. Some of these shots would pass easily as modern art or computer generated fractals if we didn't know any better....

TED| Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see October 9, 2009 BeauLotto-2009G A fascinating demonstration of how our visual system is conditioned by what we perceive as 'Reality', with unexpected conclusions about what we call Illusions. For a spectacular version of the 'sand dunes' experiment from the video, open this image a...

Spectrum and the Met October 3, 2009 DSC_0066I just spent an afternoon of pouring rain and Art in New York City. First stop was the 2nd Spectrum Exhibit hosted by the Society of Illustrators. Two floors with 120 works from artists such as Rick Berry, James Gurney, Julie Bell, Brom, Michael Whela...

Wyeth exhibit at the Brandywine Museum March 28, 2009 NCW_135_e0I got the occasion to experience an unexpected side effect of the workshops I recently took. We are spending the weekend a little north of Philadelphia, near Longwood gardens, and on a whim, we decided to visit the Brandywine Museum. There, I had the occ...

Downloads

Showcase materials for Vue 6 May 9, 2007 An archive of custom materials I created as practice or for testing purpose. For now, I only have them wrapped into a single .vue scene. Simply download the scene, open it in Vue and save the materials you want from the Material Editor. I only have V...

Fabric Set 1 May 4, 2005 Fabric Set - 700 K This Fabric Set was created at the occasion of a Technical Challenge on the Vue Forum at Renderosity. It has been tested for Vue d'Esprit 4. One of the materials is no longer compatible with Vue 4 Professional, Vue 5 and ab...

Clean up lights May 4, 2005 Clean up lights - 16K A Python script to delete all lights under a particular intensity value. This Python script has been tested on Poser Pro Pack and Poser 5 (Windows). ...

Tutorials

50 Tutorials on Traditional Drawing September 17, 2009 50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing a collection of 50 tutorials and tips to improve certains aspects of traditional drawing - from drawing an eye to full portraits. A lot of reading and practicing ahead... ...

Tutorials for Painter and Photoshop September 2, 2009 Great Painting Tutorials for Painter and Photoshop selected by Digital Images magazine. ...

About my old tutorials March 1, 2008 I had to remove my short tutorials about Vue for the time being. Some were obsolete given the progress of Vue since I wrote them and the others seriously need to be redone. In the meantime, I invite you to check out the Community Page of the Vue forum at ...