Saturday 27 May 2006

Trance and Bass

Artist: John B
Genre: trance and bass

This is one of my favourite albums of all time and infact came free on the cover of mixmag a very long time ago. Despite that i think think this album never got the praise it desereved and hence the niche genre never flourished as it should of!




Artificial Harmonics ( part 1 )



Artist: Artificial Genre: downtempo / chillout

Its been a coupple of months in the making but its FINALLY compleate, my first purely digital mix! Its taken me a long time and it was re-started on numerous occasions, but im finally happy with it. I have named it part 1 because there were that many good tunes i wanted to put in, in the end i had to reside to putting in only the tunes that fit the mood of the mix and leaving the others for a second part


Tracklisting is below:



01 - Kronos Quartet - Summer Overture

02 - Frou Frou - Let Go (artificial extended)

03 - Ulrich Schnauss - Suddenly The Trees Are Giving Away

04 - Finley Quaye - Dice

05 - Japanese Seizure Robots - Alone in A Crowded Room (Extended Version)

06 - Massive Attack - What Your Soul Sings

07 - Sinestetici And Kilowatts - Ideal Chameleon

08 - Fifth Element - Techno Opera

09 - Portishead - Roads

10 - The Chemical Brothers - One Too Many Mornings

11 - Conjure One - Sleep (Serenity Remix)

12 - Hybrid - Blackout

13 - Telepopmusik - Mathematics

14 - Sia - Breathe Me (Ulrich Schnauss Remix)

15 - Telepopmusik - Breathe

16 - Snow Patrol - How To Be Dead

Harmonics (Part 1) by Artificial on Mixcloud



Wednesday 17 May 2006

Rubicon-Purple






This image was created for my ex, its basically a purple version of the blue rubicon above, because she likes purple

Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7
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Rubicon






This one took some time to create, i had a basic idea in my head of how i wanted it to look but it took some jigging to get Bryce to to what i wanted. The bubble i didnt envisage but i think it looks kinda cool so i kept it in!

Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7
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SunsFalling






This image was created while i was realy bored waiting to go out, but despite that i think it has turned out realy nice. This is also the first one i have made for duel-screen too!

Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7
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skyworld






This image is still alot of peoples favourite. I personally think its "okay" very simple and easy to make

Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7
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archisland






Archisland is one of my most reccent additions and was done in Bryce. Took alot of tinkering to get it looking like this, even though it isnt perfect im happy with it

Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7
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VerdantGardens






Verdant Gardens is my first image i have done with bryce, pretty aint it? Expect more large open scenery, this is an awsome program!

Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7
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warpfactor






This is one of my more reccent images and is as allways and experiment. I was experimenting with the types of effects you can get with particles in lightwave. After i created that the whole image seemed to pan out into this thing. I think i envisioned a series of rings that may create a "warp tunnel" effect.

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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wall






This image was made realy fast but i tihnk it turned out quite nice. Thanks go to my good friend "cat" for the quote, cheers kitty!

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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sword






This is one of my very first images and hence you can tell by the cartoony feel too it. Only reason its up here becuse i like the effect with the three lines on the right hand side

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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squaresquare






This image i think i saw on a site somewhere and wanted a go at creating it myself. it looks okay but could be ALOT better.

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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spherering






Its some crazy collection of reflective spheres with rings around them, i dont know what i was going for when i created this

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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sphere-two






This is a heavily modified version of "sphere" and in my opinion its superior

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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sphere






After watching the film "shpere" i decided to try and create an image simmilar to the sphere in the film.. however mine has some modifications see sphere-two for what i think is a better version

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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spacevirus






This is one of my very early images and is still one of my favourite ones. It has been my background countless times

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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puzzlesphere






I saw a logo simmilar to this when i went skiing a few months back. I decided to see if i could recreate it in lightwave

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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planet






This image was created as a splash screen for a web-based game i was going to create, however i never realy got round to creating the game and ended up with this image instead

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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oddball






I personally dont like this image and feel like it could be done alot better but people have told me they like it so im posting it here anyways

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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matrix-cells






This is still one of my personal favourites, i love the green effect of the hypervoxels and the way it goes with the background so well. You could almost imagine that if there was a matrix and the code looks like the background then perhaps the machines are made up of cells that look like these

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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match






I personally hate this image, however others have told me they like it so im putting it up here.

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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mass






This has to be one of my fastest creations (about 30mins) while i was waiting to go out I think it creates a nice effect but its abit rushed, so i will probably re-visit this and see what i can do a second time around

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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llamp






Llamp (lava lamp) was created as an experiment with hypervoxels, however when it rendered i found it to be quite boring so i decided to "liven" it up abit in photoshop

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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llamp2






Llamp2 uses the same image created by lightwave however i applied different effects to it photoshop.

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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implosion






Implosion is one of my favourite images because of the variety of colours in it. Also it has got "depth" to it. By that i mean it takes a close look at it before you understand what is meant to be going on with it. Download it, see for yourself

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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Gyroalien






This image took me a relatively long time to make because of the modeling involved in creating it. Im not sure exactly what i was envisiging when i started out creating this but it ended up as some half organic teleporting device for one occupant.

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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gems






This was created (like most of my images) as an experiment, this time it was into using radioisty lighting.

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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enterwarpfactor






Enterwarpfactor is a different view of the image "warpfactor", from this perspective you can see how the vortex swirls into the nebulea in the background.

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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daydream






Daydream was inspired by my good friend Joy Scott and that is her in the picture

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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cybrain






Cyber Brain (cybrain) was created from some image i think i saw somewhere with a brain in a glass container. I dont know if it was a dream or if i actually saw it , but anyways here is the result of my mental imagery

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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chains






Chains was created in one of my more "dark" moments I wanted to get more volumetric shadowing on it but by the time it finished rendering i was no-longer in my dark mood so decided to leave it

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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alien2






Alien2 was one of my very early pieces of work. I wanted to create the impression the alien was coming through a misty doorway with light streaming behind him. However at the time i didnt have the technical know-how to achieve this effect and so had to make do with the effect above.

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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abduction






Abduction was on of my early experiments with volumetric lighting, using the same alien charachter as before i was attempting to create a steriotypical abduction image.

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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boxthing






Boxthing was my second ever creation. Im not sure where the idea for it came from, i think it was just an experiment into reflection and bumpmapping. Many people say they dont like this one, however im kinda partial to it

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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artificial2






Artificial2 is my very first piece of artwork and is the result of a tutorial i followed. At the time i couldnt work out why the bloodcell in the foreground was all squarey, so i decided to make the blood green and call it "artificial" blood. This is where the name for my entire collection of art and games has stemmed from.

Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7
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