Technology
Very Excited About New Marketing Brochure
We have been working diligently on a couple of different marketing plans and target markets. The first is a brochure that is going out to architects, landscape Architects, Interior Designers, and Landscape Designers.
I’m thrilled because it introduced our new digital sculpting services.
This is a tri fold brochure.It has been created by the new intern, Tiffany Post Actually she is not my intern she belongs to my husband’s company, MD Communications next door, but she has been on loan to me for the last couple of weeks. Tiffany is graduating from The Art Institute of Houston. She hopes to get a job in design. I am sure she would be open to freelance work if anyone needs anything, and at a good price. Great way for her to build a portfolio.
It can be a self mailer,
but who could put a label over that lion.
I really like the way the back came out.
Good thing the cards come with envelopes.
The printer we are using on this job was recommended by designer and photographer Christian Sizemore. She also does freelance work. WHCC has reasonable prices and does some nice work.
I would love to hear what others think about the brochure. Will be sent to printer next week.
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Sculptor, Writer and Speaker
Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker.
Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com.
She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series
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Molecular Animation?
Art and Science are being merged in many different ways. It was not long ago that I interviewed Oron Catts from The University of Western Australia. In an online podcast. we talked about how they are combining artists and scientists in a collaborative research laboratory.
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) began to see the importance of this marriage of art and science as they presented the exhibit Design and the Elastic Mind.
As their website states, “Design and the Elastic Mind explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspirations. The exhibition highlights designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history—changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior—and translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use. This Web site presents over three hundred of these works, including fifty projects that are not featured in the gallery exhibition.”
And now biologist are working with animation to create what is known as a new field of molecular animation. As expressed in this new York Times article, Where Cineman and Biology Meet
Inside the New World of Molecular Animation
Now, wouldn’t it be fascinating if Harvard developed a program that would combine animators with biologists as The University of Western Australia has done with science and artists? Some biologists, like Dr. Iwasa, with a grant from the National Science Foundation, traveled to California to learn animation along side those hoping to enter Pixologic. Dr. Iwasa wanted the knowledge of the animation tools to depict biological information not to animate Woody!
My intrigue with this meeting of science and animation stems from my husband Mike delaflor, a medical illustrator. Mike’s desire is to make science more accessible and understandable. He is thrilled about the idea of this new field and would like to be a part of it.
I think it’s a gold rush right now. Because a lot of the things that we have shown, have never been shown.
Robert Lue, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University.
The posted movie “The Animators of Life” talk about this new and enticing field. We will be watching closely. So Harvard, open this relationship further and encourage this marriage of animators and biologists as The University of Australia did with science and art. By the way, bring on medical Illustrator Mike de la Flor.
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-Sculptor, Writer and Speaker
Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker.
Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com.
She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series
Follow the artists on twitter twitter.com/Sculptorwriter twitter.com/creategodsword
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgette.mongeon
Listen to The Creative Christian Podcast or the Inspiration/Generation Podcast Click on Podcast Host Bios for a list of all podcasts.
Listen to the Art and Technology Podcast
How Did You Do That?
magazine. PICTURE 2 zsphere armature to
build on. PICTURE 3 Zsketch armature.
Picture 3 Skin to sculpt on.
- I found some architectural reference for this piece and scanned it into my computer.
- Created a Zbrush armature using Zspheres
- Drew on the Zshperes with Zsketch. I really like this feature of Zbrush 4 for the Mac
- The skin of the piece is created from the Zsketch. This makes it easier for me to sculpt on.
- The final sculpture is shown in two ways. The one with the black background is the final version
- The final version with the white background is using something called Best Preview Render.
I am a perpetual teacher. I love to share. So here is information and some screen shots on the scroll. It is created in Zbrush4.
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-Sculptor, Writer and Speaker
Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker.
Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com.
She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series
Follow the artists on twitter twitter.com/Sculptorwriter twitter.com/creategodsword
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgette.mongeon
Listen to The Creative Christian Podcast or the Inspiration/Generation Podcast Click on Podcast Host Bios for a list of all podcasts.
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Wow, It Is Like Having An Entirely New Art Tool That Makes My Work Look Spectacular!
I have been learning Zbrush4 for a while now. Though there is so much to learn. I have to admit, I can’t spend nearly as much time with it as I like. Zbrush 4 has something called Best Preview Render. For those of you interested in checking it out there is a link to the pixologic site that shows the details.
I still must study all of the bells and whistles of this feature of Zbrush, however, I must say I am thrilled with just my few tries of this feature. For example, I am including two screen shots in this blog post. One with the render, one without. World of difference. The feature, makes me want to create. It is like pressing a button and someone coming in and making your work look great.
Now back to playing.. uhmm I mean working.
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-Sculptor, Writer and Speaker
Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker.
Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com.
She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series
Follow the artists on twitter twitter.com/Sculptorwriter twitter.com/creategodsword
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgette.mongeon
Listen to The Creative Christian Podcast or the Inspiration/Generation Podcast Click on Podcast Host Bios for a list of all podcasts.
Listen to the Art and Technology Podcast
Using Zbrush For Design And Presentation of Traditional Sculpture
This was a simple little piece, an award for a client. But I could not get it done and created in bronze in time for their presentation. No problem with Zbrush. I just created it digitally, worked out the details with my client and then created this video for them to present. Now it is on to the traditional sculpture in the studio. I loved using Zbrush timeline to create the animation.
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Sculptor, Writer and Speaker
Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker. Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com. She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series Follow the artists on twitter twitter.com/Sculptorwriter twitter.com/creategodsword Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgette.mongeon Listen to The Creative Christian Podcast or the Inspiration/Generation Podcast Click on Podcast Host Bios for a listing of all podcasts Listen to the Art and Technology Podcast
Wow, Timeline In ZBrush 4 Is A Blast
I have a client who needs an award. Unfortunately he needs it ASAP. Well you just can’t rush creating a bronze. A 2 week turnaround on a bronze is physically impossible as it will need to go to the foundry. And so, I have used this opportunity to create the design first in ZBrush before going down stairs into the studio and sculpting it. It was great having Zbrush as part of my toolset As I could work out design details and send it back and forth to him to approve, via e mail. They needed something to show as they are going to present this to the CEO on Wednesday It is quite easy to make the Zbrush art into a video format using timeline. Oh, I can see myself having a lot of fun with this in the future. I’ll post mine later, but here are some examples of what timeline can do.
A cool video showing an animation of a heart using Zbrush 4 R Timeline
Here is a videos from Pixologic discussing the possibilities of Timeline.
My Review of ZBrush 4
Recently I wrote a review on Zbrush 4 for Studio Monthly. Do check it out. Thank you to Yiannis Tyropolis and all the rest for their contribution of artwork for the article.
Sculptor, Writer and Speaker
Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker. Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com. She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series Follow the artists on twitter twitter.com/Sculptorwriter twitter.com/creategodsword Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgette.mongeon Listen to The Creative Christian Podcast or the Inspiration/Generation Podcast Click on Podcast Host Bios for a listing of all podcasts Listen to the Art and Technology Podcast
The Most Useful Free Program For The Mac!
I love this program. I use it when creating in many different ways. Sure, some programs try to replicate this, but frankly this is much easier to use. What is it? It is called PhotoStickies. I’m including the description from the devon-technologies website Here is my quick description. A program that allows you to display photographs on your desktop. It also allows you to quickly change size and even opacity. What does that mean? If I am working in Zbrush or Mudbox and I want to be able to see the reference photographs of someone or something as I am working on them or If I want to have a variety of photographs up at one time. I can do this with PhotoStickies. And I can change the opacity of the photograph, bring it to the front and place it right over my work area of another program! Just in case I’m checking my accuracy. Amazing. https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/9324/photostickies
PhotoStickies
PhotoStickiesPhotoStickies gives you unique access to your favorite pictures. Use PhotoStickies to put all your favorite pictures on your desktop in the form of floating (even borderless) stickies. You may pull pictures for these stickies from your hard drive, or the Internet. PhotoStickies also displays webcam images live on your desktop, updating them automatically. You can even use PhotoStickies to record web cams for later viewing, or make a web cam your desktop picture.
Highlights:
* Displays all image formats supported by Mac OS X
* Displays images from your hard drive or the web
* Shows images as stickies or as your desktop wallpaper
* Edit images using live effects, like transparency or color correction
* Record streaming webcam images for later viewing
* Discover new places with an Internet-based list of webcams
* Can run as a menu extra
A Free Digital Sculpting Program
A new program called Sculptris is available. Sculptris 1.0 for free download.
Though this article on Pixologic’s website states that they acquired Sculptris and it will be known as Sculptris Alpha 5. I can’t help but wonder why this was purchased by Pixologic. Was it to stop competition?The creator Tomas Petterson is relocating to California from Sweden. This can only mean advancements in the upcoming versions of Z brush. How far can this program go? Looking at the way Sculptris works as compared to Zbrush has peeked my interest. I’m a traditional sculptor. I don’t want to have to worry about zspheres or such. I just want to take clay and sculpt. Zbrush can be frustrating in this area. Even with the newest upgrade I thought, Oh yes, now mannequins I can pose and then I can get right into the sculpting. They are not as easy as taking a lump of clay and sculpting. Though the digital world has spoiled me. I want to be able to sculpt symmetrically on my posed figure. It will be interesting to see how Zbrush changes and what this brings to the table at Pixologic
This is a Windows application only
UPDATE 2020 Sculptris is now owned by pixologic. It is still free.
Pixologic Now Has A New Set Of Videos For Zclassroom
As a sculptor the digital technology is important to me. Expanding my horizons with digital sculpting as well as traditional sculpting. In this link you will find some educational videos on the new part of zbrush4.0 called Spotlights. Very exciting.