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Isolation Dreams: Illustration Series in Cinema 4D

Prateek Vatash is back with another 'pure awesomeness' illustration series that needed some love on abdz. We have featured his work before and it never ceases to amaze. With the title 'Isolation Dreams', you can't help to see a connection with this pandemic and how this future has become to be. Going through this series, I love the gritty signature he left on every single piece, it makes you feel part of the art and eventually part of his dreams.

Switzerland Landscapes llustrations by Pierre-Abraham Rochat

Ever since moving to Switzerland, we didn't wait long to start exploring this marvelous country. we took thousands of pictures and it seems it's never enough. Even tho this country is quite small compared to what we used to live in, but I think the country is so huge in height like you look up and there those mountains, valley, waterfalls, above and below the cloud. Then you look down, there's hills, blue-ish lakes, an endless river flowing between villages and fields.

3D Movie Illustrations series by Roman Klco

Since the pandemic around the world, staying home and working from home is pretty much what we are all doing nowadays. Have you ever wondered how every person managed to live and work around their house? This tiny cubic house trend is everywhere, from 3d to illustrations to photographers, and architecture for small spaces is genuinely pleasant to look at. This artist captures it very nicely in 3D cubic spaces from famous movies we all know, oh movies, the feeling to be in a theater and watch a movie on the big screen. They are fond memories now.

3D High Polygon Sliced Geometry with Specular Depth

Somehow, by some absolute Christmas miracle, Stu Ballinger managed to secure an RTX 3090 for his computer. Naturally, with his new-found power, he’s now rendering all the stuff that his old card couldn't, such as super high polygon sliced geometry with a ridiculous specular depth. We are of course jealous of his new video card but we are also inspired to see all this incredible 3d work. By the way, he also quit his job.

Introducing Spline, 3D Tool for Designers

Introducing Spline, a 3D tool for designers and mostly to help us create web experiences. I had the chance to play a little bit before publishing this article and I must admit that it looks promising. Obviously, there are a few things to improve but let’s not forget it’s still the 'preview release'. I would be curious to see to what extent Spline can take your 3D skills whatever you are a pro or a beginner. I have been learning Blender lately and Spline provides an intuitive interface that will make you easily remind of Sketch for example.

The Boundaries of Gravity in 3D

In real life something needs to differ and be slightly off. Yas N Vicente likes the beauty of imperfections, the cracked wood, an element about to fall or just a desaturated color. This is where Yas N Vicente finds inspiration. This is a personal 3D project focused on texture and form. All done using Maxon Cinema 4D and incredibly realistic 3D renders. 

Tylko Organise effortlessly -3D & Motion Design

Reisinger Studio with Facu Labo and Aimar Molero Music & Sou were briefed to create four ideas to promote Tylko's "Organise effortlessly" mantra. Using Maxon Cinema 4D they created some abstract 3D work and here’s a set of  work in progress & 3D explorations.

Universal - Spreading Scientific Knowledge in 3D

Pier Paolo shared an awesome 3D project titled Universal. In times of misinformation and science denial he decided to use his tools to help spreading scientific knowledge and perhaps make more people curious about these topics. "UNIVERSAL" is a self-initiated project exploring concepts of physics and science. “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” - Carl Sagan

Concrete Dream Surreal Scenes in 3D

Concrete Dream is a series of 3D surreal scenes inspired from real world concrete structure combined with Link Lee daydream. Using Cinema 4D, Lee creates compositions that mix reminds me of the Monument Valley game, which makes me think that a photorealistic version of that game would be incredible.

Body shapes inspired 3D Landscapes

Karan Gujar is an art director based in Mumbai, India. He shared a cool 3D project via his Behance. Inspired by human body shapes, he explored the outlines of 3D, shapes, and lighting to come up with this lovely series titled: 'Contour - Scapes'. I love the subtle gradient fading in the background and its repetition. It makes you really focus on the 'waves', I can't help to notice this series totally reminds you of some of the opening titles from these famous 'James Bond' movies.

If I’m Honest Motion Design

Hussam Eissa shared a motion design project featuring a retro look mixed with clever use of 3D. If I’m Honest is a music video made for DJ Gem that takes the viewer through a magical summer journey. The video explores the concept of a twin flame love, a magnetic connection that shows up in the different phases of your life. 

3D & Analog Printing for Kapitaal Screen Print Studio

Kapitaal, a screen print studio based in Utrecht, invited Rutger Paulusse for their New Print exhibition in February 2020. For this event a different artist is invited each month, to create a new screen print. It was the perfect opportunity for Rutger to explore the relationship between cgi work and analog printing techniques further.

DISPERSION Motion in 3D

J.King Chou shared a 3D and motion design project titled DISPERSION. As the name suggests it’s about light effects and some abstract choreography of shapes overlapping. You all know by now that I am a fan of this type of effect. Perhaps it’s time to dust off my old Photoshop skills.

Clarus Via Motion Design

Anxo Vizcaíno shared a 3D and motion design project titled Clarus Via. Clarus (latin for light, clear) Via (latin for way, path) is a short story about light, an exploration of its behaviors and its capacity to create space and time. It's also about being born, exploring, understanding and finding. Thierry Urbain's work has been a great source of inspiration, along with wonderful architecture works around the world.

Some Handsome Hands - 3D Series

Hands are the part of our body that best allows us to interact with the outside world, it is with our hands that we can act in a magnificent and magical way in our society. It is mainly with hands that humankind created art, and as Ben Harper once sang: "now I can change the world with my own two hand".

Fighting Fish - Motion Design Sculptural Visions

‘Fighting Fish’ is the collision of the sculpture and motion design practices of North Boy South aka multi-award winning motion artist (and Stash alumni) Simon Robson. 2020 with all its ructions has allowed time for many creatives to re-evaluate their paths and Simon is no exception. After years of secretly dreaming and drafting his sculptures on paper, this year Simon has dared to make his practice a reality, diving into the physical realization of his sculptural visions.

GEOMETRY 3D Product Visualization

Peter Janov shared a personal exploration of a set design and 3D product visualization. The main subjects of these renders are furniture pieces manufactured by an Italian brand Cimento. Colorful palette and nice simple shapes of their products inspired me to such an extent that Peter decided to model them and create this set of visualizations. 

3D Typeface Compositions in Cinema 4D

Jeison Barba is and art director based in Medellín, Colombia, he shared a colorful and detailed project via his Behance. Titled 'Typeface Compositions', it's a personal experiment made in Cinema 4D. I am just stunned by the level of details and how the depth is so creative on the actual typography. From a bold message like 'Stay home' to simply 2020; you just gotta appreciate how Jeison explore different color schemes through his pieces.

Nothingness: Eerie 3D Art

Nothingness is the titled of a new set of beautiful but also eerie 3D images created and shared by Murat Yıldırım. The images have a photorealistic style, which made me think they were photos, until I saw the floating boats one. The color, the mood, everything is super inspiring. The 3D software used was Maxon Cinema 4D.

Learning Blender 3D

For the past month or so I started to learn 3D. My tool of choice, Blender. I played with Cinema 4D in the past. I think it’s a phenomenal tool, however, I cannot ignore the fact that it is expensive. Well, at least for me, which the purpose right now is learn and have fun, no ROI. I also knew about Blender, but didn’t know how active the community was. So many tutorial videos and resources available for free. It reminded me a bit of the early 2000s when I started the blog with Photoshop tutorials.