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forleafclovgrl [2007-04-05 22:47:24 +0000 UTC]
This is so amazing! I love it!
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afterchain [2005-11-24 23:24:14 +0000 UTC]
This is gorgous!
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kaidoh In reply to TheExileBlades [2005-11-22 03:38:39 +0000 UTC]
Thank you.. You should see the companion piece in my gallery though.. Mobius.
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TheExileBlades In reply to kaidoh [2005-11-22 04:59:18 +0000 UTC]
i will...i was just looking through real quick
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kaidoh In reply to fanatical-chick [2005-11-06 13:17:11 +0000 UTC]
See? See?? I'm not the only one bugged out by this! I'm just boggled by it..
To more illustrate the sides, here's the companion piece I did for it; Mobius
but it's a physics puzzle, that isn't a puzzle because obviously it's real and easily done, but how it's done just freaks me out. It's just wrong, man.. i tell ya, it's just wrong.
And thank you very much for the compliment.. Really appreciate it.
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kaidoh In reply to fanatical-chick [2005-11-07 01:07:26 +0000 UTC]
No, wait.. when you take a two sided paper and make a mobius strip out of it.. seriously.. it becomes one-sided. I've done it countless times to illustrate to ppl what a mobius strip is (you'd think I had all the time in the world. This is one of those situations where the ppl working around me just nod and think Im a kook). and it's ONE-sided..
pfaarrrkfph!- okay, my brain farted. LMAO
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Blacklotus87 [2005-10-09 01:22:19 +0000 UTC]
this is beautiful. the detail...the knotwork on the metal even has the distinctive look of an engraving...
heh...i never know what to do when people ask for advanced critique on practically perfect deviations..
I might say...that the detail on the stone border might look better if it were somewhat sharpened...its somewhat blurry. but i could be wrong seeing as i don't really know exactly what it would look like if it were real.
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kaidoh In reply to Blacklotus87 [2005-10-09 01:33:03 +0000 UTC]
"the knotwork on the metal even has the distinctive look of an engraving..."
Thank you.. that's the best compliment I could get, cuz that's what I was going for..
Gracias muchos!!!
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zaiqukaj [2005-09-11 00:57:39 +0000 UTC]
wow, that really cool
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kaidoh In reply to zaiqukaj [2005-09-11 12:56:40 +0000 UTC]
Thanks bunches
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kaidoh In reply to Mehrunnisa [2005-09-08 10:25:06 +0000 UTC]
Merely shadow and lighting to fool the eye. THank you very much. Your pendant sounded lovely.
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kaidoh In reply to Anastasia-12 [2005-09-03 22:32:24 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! How so? Can you follow the edge all the way around? I'm working on a mobius strip companion piece..
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lukavi [2005-08-27 00:32:04 +0000 UTC]
voted! Great job!
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mleannegibson [2005-08-26 15:12:12 +0000 UTC]
wow!!!! that is uberly awesome!!!
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kaidoh In reply to mleannegibson [2005-08-27 01:19:12 +0000 UTC]
Thanks.. curently working on a companion piece for it..
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PatGoltz [2005-08-18 13:41:28 +0000 UTC]
This is awesome! I never realized there was a Celtic knot pattern in the middle of the trefoil mobius strip until I enlarged it. Lovely! I like the marble texture of the background, too.
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kaidoh In reply to PatGoltz [2005-08-19 10:09:53 +0000 UTC]
Thank you! I had to re-edit it because the knotwork was too faint.. I was going for an etched feel instead of carved, but it was just too faint and I don't think anyone was seeing it. ANd thank you on the marble.
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PatGoltz In reply to kaidoh [2005-08-19 14:41:58 +0000 UTC]
When I saw it, it looked fine. It didn't show up in the small image, but that's true of a lot of things. You're welcome.
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kaidoh In reply to maskofmirrors [2005-08-19 10:10:28 +0000 UTC]
Well thank you very much!
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Holyrose [2005-08-17 08:24:38 +0000 UTC]
this one is very impressive,
the 3D effects are really well done : the central trinity knot seems to be floating over your background, just as if it was going to turn and turn to show you some way...
How did you make the background? It looks like a red moon, or something like the "soil" of Jupiter...
I think the patern of the external circle is a bit too blurred, but this is a mere detail.
The whole thing is incredibly well done, I wish I could do the same with Photoshop... but it would take me years before I find the secret...
Everything in your picture is harmonious and smooth, and you manage to keep it very noble in spite of being digital, using "materials" looking like sand, stone and gold... This is very refined.
Good luck for the contest, but with a piece like this, I trully believe you've got chances...
As for me, I wish I could participate, but it will be for the next time, I'm working this summer and I don't have enough time to make a proper knotted deviation...
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kaidoh In reply to Holyrose [2005-08-17 09:50:53 +0000 UTC]
Thank you. I use several techniques to make the "soil".. a combination of a particular brush, smudge tool and water color filter.. Stone was done the same way with minor details added by hand.. and the metal is a combination of noise, blur filters and saturation and lighting elements.
Thank you so much for the wonderful comment.. I had originally intended on the central knot being silver.. but it just didn't look right.
Maybe a companion piece.. hrmm.
And I understand completely about the contest.. hope to see more of your stuff in the future, it is so fantastic. THanks.
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Rubaiyat [2005-08-17 04:03:09 +0000 UTC]
Okay, I always love your work... but this takes the cake.
There is a lovely sense of balance and sheer simplicity to this, a sum of all the parts working together that's just amazing. From the lines and textures to the colors and small details. This entire piece works in harmony. If I knew how to do a devart nomination, I would. Show me, and I will. The subtlety of the colors complements the simplicity of the lines. The knotwork continued fluidly, and the slight "defects" around the lines make it even more indicative of carving and believable.
The shadowing. the taper of the knotwork... everything works.
I want to dip my hand into this and pull out the knotwork strip.
This is what good CG should be like, what conventional media cannot do.
ROCK ON!
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lukavi [2005-08-16 04:02:50 +0000 UTC]
CRAP! Thats wonderful! Your works are getting sharper, more detailed, it just keeps getting better! The marble rendering is very, very good. Only crit I can think of is the minor pixelization around the edges of the knotwork, perhaps due to the perspective/ warp effect applied to it. Otherwise, this is an A+.
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kaidoh In reply to lukavi [2005-08-16 09:54:49 +0000 UTC]
oh wait.. which knotwork? The mobius strip or the knotwork decoration inside it?
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kaidoh In reply to lukavi [2005-08-16 09:50:25 +0000 UTC]
Nah.. I think that's just due to laziness and being tired of looking at it.
Thanks very much! I'm trying very hard to utilize Photoshop correctly. And, dadblameit, I was pretty proud of the little snippet of a story I put with it..
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hypknotic [2005-08-15 18:55:00 +0000 UTC]
Wow! great stuff! The appearance of different materials is very effective. The textures are very real--you can imagine how they would feel to the touch--and you've used it well for contrast, allowing more muted colors than would work on a similar image with less variation in texture.
I think the Mobius/Trefoil in particular has a neat finish. My only suggestion would be to try and add a bit more depth to it; the ribbon appears very thin as it turns perpendicular to the eye. Thicker, more defined edges might make it easier for the eye to follow the twists.
Really neat. I hope you'll do more exploring of these techniques!
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kaidoh In reply to hypknotic [2005-08-16 01:02:04 +0000 UTC]
Thank you so much for the wonderful comment!
I was going for a very thin ribbon of metal.. I had originally planned for it to be cloth material, either tapestry or actual ribbon material.. but as I was working on it, and started forming a more quartz/marble-esque background, the idea of metal really appealed to me..
I started with a brushed steel type metal, after my husband started showing me techniques for creating a metal texture.. toned it down and decided I wanted something less grey against the background. Once I got the metal tones I wanted, I desaturated each piece individually until I got the feel I wanted. Our eyes perceive things in color, but as we get more realistic, the eye doesn't accept color so well.. Light versus shadow and things get tricky for colors..
My husband has taught me a lot as to colors/hues, saturations, etc.. I plan on doing more exploring because I'm really tickled with the outcomes. Finally! I'm doing more stuff on purpose and having fewer "happy accidents".
thank you so much for the comment.
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Astridyl [2005-08-15 16:26:42 +0000 UTC]
That's awesome! I really like what you did with it! ^_^
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kaidoh In reply to Astridyl [2005-08-15 17:07:22 +0000 UTC]
Thanks!
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Astridyl In reply to kaidoh [2005-08-15 17:33:12 +0000 UTC]
your welcom! ^_^
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