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Web Discoveries for January 14th

By Tom Saunter on January 14, 2010 // del.icio.us

These are my del.icio.us links for January 14th

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Web Discoveries for December 13th

By Tom Saunter on December 13, 2009 // del.icio.us

These are my del.icio.us links for December 13th

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Web Discoveries for November 30th

By Tom Saunter on November 30, 2009 // del.icio.us

These are my del.icio.us links for November 30th

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Self-Pixellation

By Tom Saunter on November 5, 2009 // design

In his recent work “Papercraft Self Portrait”, 3D artist Eric Testrole did something really cool for Halloween. He pixellated his own head!

It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe.

He’s been a character designer in the video game industry for nine years, so this is a case of life now mimicking his art, as his skills having now ‘absorbed’ his very being. Very spooky. Here’s how it happened:

model1 | Self Pixellation | Digital Cortex
A model was created from a blocky 370 polygons
mudbox1 | Self Pixellation | Digital Cortex
Texture was added to match his appearance using PhotoShop
4067409891 4c1c43124c o1 | Self Pixellation | Digital Cortex
The ‘polygons’ are printed, cut & glued together

The finished result is the surreal creation you see prowling the streets in the below Flickr photoset. Hit fullscreen for best effect:

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Web Discoveries for October 5th

By Tom Saunter on October 5, 2009 // del.icio.us

These are my del.icio.us links for October 5th

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