"The Tides · Of Life"
The creation of the sculpture

Find the full quality videos of the installation also on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBd7EiaFUofgeUCavf6GkTwLx0yzj3MTL

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"The Tides · Of Life"
The creation of the sculpture

This video shows how the #sculpture was originally designed as a logo in #Softimage #XSI and rendered in different styles over the years

In 2024 we finally made it into the wall #lamp it always was supposed to be by 3D-printing it in four pieces on a #Creality #Ender 5 Plus

Learn more about the project on our website:
https://urbanflow.art/en/the-tides

#3dprinting #3d #mastoart #livingpainting #creativecoding #sounddesign #taichi #chigong #energy

Genuary 2025 Day 19: "Oops Art."

"The inbound Stream of Dreams"

So today I'll cheat and post one of my favourite images ever.
A sculpture I modelled long ago in Softimage XSI with subdivision surfaces and then tried to UV-unwrap generatively...
...which went beautifully wrong, the checkerboard grid was deformed into a fantastic pattern.
I have this hanging on my wall as a large print.

#Genuary #Genuary2025 #Genuary19 #Day19 #Softimage #XSI #3D #MastoArt #BlackAndWhite #sculpture #Flow #UV

When I see this interface of #Softimage, I think that it was years ahead of the competition, but I also notice that #Blender was inspired by this application, I believe that #Blender3d is the natural heir.
Old #XSI developers where are now? They could help the community #b3d

I've been on a trip down the memory lane with the early versions of #Softimage #XSI and how cool I thought the whole package was when I used to aspire to be a CGI artist one day. One thing I noticed in later releases is the 3D cube gizmo that was added after the Autodesk acquisition. If I were to guess this was a request from the top level execs and was meant to show that XSI became a part of the Autodesk family, even though it's completely out of the fashion with the rest of the UI. Ugly af...

"The inbound Stream of Dreams"

The third one in the series, the same sculpture again, but this time a happy accident happened in Softimage XSIs UV Editor... 🙂
Love it, although a friend said it gives him eye-cancer... 😂
I have it hanging on my office wall in 1m square for a decade...

#Softimage #XSI #TheaRender #Sculpture #MastoArt #

Another incarnation of the sculpture I posted yesterday.
This time rendered with a special C++ camera shader I developed for Mental Ray in Softimage XSI many years ago.
It allows to displace the camera rays with for instance a fractal noise like in this case.

For all my (3D) life I loved NPR rendering styles and this is one of the best results I got.
Love it! 🙂

#Softimage #XSI #MentalRay #Sculpture #painting #NPR #MastoArt #Design

This organic sculpture was originally created in Softimage XSI in 2006 and rendered with a custom Mental Ray C++ shader I created for illustrations that allowed me to enter precise colours and completely ignore lighting... 🙂

I will post some further incarnations later...

#3D #design #XSI #MastoArt #sculpture

It's been 7 years since the final release of #Softimage #XSI. Really wish I had a perpetual license of it. #vfx