"What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." - Andre Gide
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BIO
I am not Vile! Back in the really old days I used to log on to a BBS with that handle and have never really changed it. Every time I join some online community it still sticks and I have been here at Renderosity since 12/16/1999.
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I am not an artist! Well at least not in the traditional sense at least. Both my Mother and Sister are terrific analog artists but I just never got into the whole paints, canvas and brushes thing. Not that I was terribly bad at it I was just never as good as I wanted to be. I am a perfectionist! Computer art really appealed to me for this reason, my favorite button became the UNDO! I love the way I can save an image and comeback to it at another time and add more or erase mistakes. Or create something so, possibly temporary as a digital image and yet have it be as effective as a masters painting!
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I am too technical! My art does not reflect my moods or expressions most the time but more of my technical abilities (I am working on this though). I mainly use Photoshop, Bryce, (occasionally Poser) and a digital camera.
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I am not my Past! I first started digital art in 1991 with a program called SPASH on a Leading Technologies 286PC. I used to sketch out an image in pencil or pen and then try to recreate it Pixel by frustrating Pixel. I created some amazing images (in my mind they were) of Dinosaurs, Comic characters and Sci-fi. All but one were lost in a computer meltdown, the one that survived I can t seem to recall off of a floppy disk either.
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I am not Brycer! By 1997 I had an Intel Pentium 133 which my Uncle loaned me I believe it had 64MB of Ram and a 1GB hard Drive. And then I met Bryce2 and many a night was spent trying to get that thing to render silly little mountains or spheres all of which as I look back on and think a 4 year old could do better! But I had to learn, I had to render!
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I am not a Master! I think there are few Digital masters out there and they know who they are! I try as hard as I can to copy or pay homage to their accomplishments. I think, that I and others have made Bryce do things it was never intended or dreamed of being able to do. I now see people doing stuff I had not even dreamed of.
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One final thought! I Say Let me never be whole! I Say May I never be satisfied! I Say Deliver me from Japanese Robots! I Say Deliver me from lame Poser Art! I Say Deliver me from bad skin and Perfect Smiles! I Say you don't have to give in and through down your hand!
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And I Say Evolve!
Comments (24)
seiwert
brilliant, as usual! I like the stars twinkling in his eyes. And you gave mars an athmosphere, so there IS life on mars ;-)
RodsArt
Excellent Scene, Always liked SS.
Atwistedperson
Mars got a thin atmosphere alright seen in actual photos, but yes that haze plus the details on the surface is amazingly good, not the metion the surfer. :)
draculaz
hehe, awesome job :)
darkpoodle
i am a silver surfer fan, and i think yu did a great job with him. i like the aura around him. excellent pic.
tjohn
A real beaut, Vile!
lionking123
Nice surfer through the stars...
danamo
Excellent job of rendering one of my favorite old comic book characters. You've embued him with the "power cosmic".
Oshio
very good indeed, maybe a bit of blur to give a bit of motion
JVRenderer
Nice scene. Good tribute.
Bobbie25
nice fx's and pov well done hun
pogmahone
Very very cool :o))
krickerd
Awesome surreal image!
electroglyph
Superb!
loswl_
One of my Favs too:o)..you did a excellent job, well suited for a cover art!!
garyandcatherine
This rules! Don't know why but it looks like a painting. You have done a marvelous job on this. The lighting and that background is phenomanal.! Excellent
19Paul
WOW!!! This image reminds me the Marval trading cards I had when I was ten, and how the Silver Surfer looked there. For a second there I practiclly had a flashback to being ten years old and ripping open a new pack of Marval Universe Serise III :-D
FA-Q
Great job..
GladysClump
well you were right, he does look very cool rendered this way, great job!
Andi3d
Nicely done, this looks waaay cool, and I'm not a superheroes fan either ;-)
Ironsong
The Surfer is alwas a fun hero to tackle as a modeling study. I had a lot of fun with my own version of this theme. Yours is excellent. I really like the asteroids:)
zoren
I loved reading these comix..well done render!!!
gomcse
Fabulous job!
brylaz
Excellent work!!!