Art Created With Imagine For The Amiga
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This section of The Temporal Doorway is focused on images created with Impulse, Inc.'s Imagine, rendered on the Amiga computer (in fact, a couple of the early images were created with Turbo Silver, the predecessor to Imagine).
All of these images required more than just mastery of Imagine. Most of my 3D projects require extensive use of image processing to prepare suitable texture bitmaps and backgrounds. I have used Pixmate (out of production), Art Department Pro (now called Elastic Reality, but not on the Amiga platform), and Image FX (available for the Amiga from Nova Design) most frequently. Some renderings also required the use of a landscape design program such as World Construction Set. Human figures in these images are from the Humanoid object set produced by Crestline Software. Some of the other objects are from the Syndesis 3DROM (now owned by Viewpoint) but most were developed by the author. In some cases, the image was post-processed, often by painting in features or shadows.
Explanations of how I synthesize these techniques into a single image are covered in my art Workshop (for instance, see the description of the Making Of The Ringclimber Illustration or The Making of "Electricity Of Life").
My objective in using 3D software is to produce as realistically fantastic an image as possible. At the same time, each work must meet the same standards that make any artwork of value - balance in composition, color, depth, lighting and texture. Thus, if you compare these images to others in my Gallery, you will not find differences in essentials.
Each image was created for a particular purpose - to learn a technique, to illustrate one of my novels, to document a possibly real event, or to produce symbolically interesting conceptual art. Most of the images below support a click-through to a descriptive page with a full-size version of the image, or a click through to the place where the full-sized image is used. Those which don't eventually will as their images are added to the site during one of the monthly shows. Enjoy!
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At The Ancient Door |
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The Wood Ring System |
Wood Ring System At Sunset |
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Footnotes
1. Illustration for my novel The Hunt; this link or the picture link will take you to the top of the novel.
2. Illustration for my novel The Hunt; this link or the picture link will take you to the middle of the novel. Please be patient while the text and image above it are loading.
3. Illustration used for the Philosophy and Politics section of The Temporal Doorway; this link or the picture link will take you to that section.
4. Illustration for a famous UFO event of September 1965; this link or the picture link will take you to the top of the report. Clicking on the image in the report will display a full size image.
5. Illustration for a famous UFO event of September 1961; this link or the picture link will take you to the top of the report. Clicking on the image in the report will display a full size image.
6. This is a real 3D image - bring your red / blue 3D glasses.
7. Illustration for my novel Source; this link or the picture link will take you to the top of the novel.