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MattCarter — Chakra
Published: 2006-07-24 15:03:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1835; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 99
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An abstract blue inspiration:A glowing pinacle point centred between sharp coiled tendrils.
Modelling, rendering, LOTS of post photoshopping!
Software used:
Maya 7, Mental Ray, Photoshop CS
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Comments: 13
You did that in 25 minutes? *grumble* I've got to learn how to do digital art... I'm more of a hands on, touch oriented artist, but the digital world is becoming more and more enticing.
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Beautiful concept - we could well be looking at a neuron and its dendrites. "Chakra" is a very suitable title for this piece.
For an atheist you seem to have a better understanding of spirituality than most others who actually claim to believe in "God".
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Your right it does resemble a neurone with dentrites, the only problem is that in reality dendrites protrude outward from the cell body, whereas in this the sharp tendrils point towards it.
Well just because I am an athiest, it doesn't mean I'm uneducated about religion, I just don't beleive in it
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Well, it depends on one's perception: The tendrils could be emanating from the glowing center. The wider ends nearest to the viewer could be interpreted as the effect of dramatic foreshortening.
I know how you mean - I'm enamored with theology, but I don't believe in any one religion either. I see the different religious doctrines that have been created over time as human attempts to understand the correlation between ourselves and the unseen forces of the universe (perhaps the six collapsed, unseen dimensions that String Theory speaks of?). The myriad religions represent attempts to understand the truth, but religion is not the truth in and of itself. The biggest problem with a religion is that when a new discovery comes about, it is often met with denial. Ideally a new truth should be assimilated into what one already knows, not denied. When a person's belief system is challenged by said new discovery, that person ought to think, "hmm - maybe I don't know all that I thought I did". The act of such denial is borderline arrogant: When a person denies a newly discovered truth, he is in effect saying, "I know it all. Since I know all and this isn't part of what I know, it can't be true. It therefore cannot exist".
Science is the epitome of the tireless quest for truth. Unlike in a religion, when a new discovery is made that new truth is assimilated into what we already know, often making amendments to our knowledge base in the process. Yet this process doesn't always take place in the scientific world, although more than it seems to in the religious one. Not even Albert Einstein himself could accept what he discovered in his Theory of Everything: They conflicted with his beliefs in God. The key words here are "his" and "beliefs". His mistake is that he treated his beliefs as infallible truths. Did he actually think he knew it all? Because of this, he took to the grave something that mankind could have learned from and built off of. He was a genius - but human nonetheless.
Humans have a lot to learn.
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That's incredible, and I have no idea how it was accomplished, but I do think the object in the center is a bit of a let-down. You have all this incredible movement bringing your eye into the center, only to be left wondering what is that weird thing in the center? I would much rather have seen just a glowing orb and leave it to my imagination, or something hinting at life, like a fetus or egg. I know you spent quite a while making this, and I don't deny your skill, just for heaven's sake what's that THING in the center? It's kinda ugly. I'm sorry to say that, but I think it is. (Just the central object, not the whole thing.) Keep going though, good work.
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Thanks for commenting, and thanks for your constructive critism.
Your right the coil in the centre is sort of out of place looking at in again. It was (when I modelled the structure) actually one of the coils leading away from the camera (as you can see is also has a spiky end) but it glowed a bit too much so it looks like a pinacle point, at the time I went with it as it sort of looked vaguely good.
Since I only spend about 25 min making the whole thing as it was only a quick piece, its not worth changing it.
Thanks again and I glad you liked it (sort of) hehe.
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