We're happy to announce the launch of the Magazine Interact Forum's
Back Room, "The official online extension of Renderosity Magazine"!
This will be the place to go for editorials, magazine
excerpts, discussions, and plenty of surprises. Also, if you
haven't done so yet, you can subscribe
to the magazine or buy single
issues. To find your way there, go to the Magazine
Interact Forum, and click on the link to the Back
Room at the top. Every couple of weeks, we'll be highlighting
an article, review, or editorial from past issues of the magazine.
Our first feature is an editorial from Issue #1,
"The Digital Renaissance" by ddm (Doug
McFarland).
About ddm: Artist,
Engineer and occasional armchair philosopher. Over the last 30
years, Doug has sold traditional large canvas artwork, developed
and sold computer game software and artwork, and showed and sold
traditional B&W fine art photographs. He is a published digital
rendering artist, and has already booked 5 shows in 2003 of his
current digital photographic impressions artwork. Throughout the
70's, he painted and sold artwork using traditional mediums such as
oils and pastels. Then as co-owner of Artworx Software Company Inc.
in the 80's, he developed several popular software games for the
emerging computer market. In the 90's his artistic efforts turned
to traditional photographic artwork, working exclusively in B&W
from 35mm to 5x7 large format. Then in the late 90's he
experimented with digital rendering tools such as Terragen, Poser,
Bryce and 3D-Max, and was published in Taschen's 2002 Digital
Beauties book. Over the last several years, he has combined his
knowledge of traditional B&W wet darkroom techniques and his
traditional artwork background with software and computer skills to
develop a new look in photographic art. Something he calls digital
photographic impressionism, a blend between art and photography. In
addition to operating his own business, Final Impressions, he is
also working on a limited edition digital art book and is in the
process of building a community of other Alternative Process
Digital Photographic artists.
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