Wednesday, 24 February 2021

February 23, 2021

The Tuesday Night drawing group of Santa Fe drew together online using Zoom, because of the Covid 19 quarantine. Daniel Donnelly from near Chico, California joined us (see the Butte College gallery).  The model was from the Washington DC area.


I drew the model directly in Paint 3D, the free program that comes with Windows 10, using a Wacom tablet.

Download all the 3D "drawings/sculptures" below -- 210223__GLB_decimated.zip (3 MB)








Original file for download:





Original file for download:


I downloaded the above Portrait.glb file and converted it into an PLY file in Blender, before uploading it to Voronator (accepts 20 MB max).

Voronoi mesh
achieved with Voronator


I used the "Video Editor" that comes with Windows 10 to add bubbles to the video I made in Paint 3D:

Spinning with bubbles





Original file for download:


Run by krrrl on Sketchfab




I downloaded the above Run.glb file and converted it into an OBJ file online in Any Conv, before uploading it to Voxelizer.














Color and animation experiment

Animated together in Blender
with flies


To animate quickly in Blender:
  • Click “Auto Keying” circle shaped record button in Timeline.
  • Press Space to start recording.
  • Press [G] to move the cube.  Notice keyframes being generated automatically.

I also created music for the above video in Chrome Song Maker  (but couldn't add lyrics with Song Lyrics Generator), and used the online Veed video editor to add the music to the Blender video animation.  EzGif resized it small for me.




Gesture sketches
with the Wacom tablet



PAINT 3D

I really love working in Paint 3D.  It's simple but powerful -- great for "sculpting" the figure in my style on the computer, in real time.


One particular adjustment really makes a huge difference. By hitting  "3" on the keyboard one will repeat the same 3D tool that he just used. Therefore I programmed one of the buttons on the Wacom stylus with "3," in order to continue using the last 3D tool.  Specifically, after drawing a "soft edge" shape, I press the button on my Wacom stylus, and then I can draw another "soft edge" shape immediately.  This small convenience makes the drawing process flow painlessly, especially when drawing-sculpting the live model.

HOLOGRAMS

The next challenge is to pump up the presentation.  It would be nice to exhibit my digital 3D figures without using a VR headset like the Oculus.  It looks like there are some hologram displays coming to market:


Other hologram displays:

ANAMORPHIC ART
pushing 3D

In my master's thesis I suggested that the next art challenge was to partition the physical 3D space in front of the painting -- such as by delivering different perceptions from different physical positions in front of the canvas. Michael Murphy does exactly this with physical sculptural elements:



NFTs

One of the craziest contemporary developments is using the "Non-fungible Token" (NFT) to buy digital art online with the Ethereum blockchain.

Non-fungible tokens will buy digital art on Open Sea (see OpenSea's Instagram), SuperRare, Cryptovoxels, Niftygateway and others listed on Nonfungible and NFTplazas.  






These expensive NFT Beeple images are where Fine Art meets 3D Art (made in Blender and Paint 3D), showing off a different attitude than the more conventional Blender animations, or not.


Maybe SNL explains NFTs the best.

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