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This image reflects another thing I like to do: watch anime. Aside from that, it is well done. Especially for a fantasy scene. This image is used for this post in order to show that CG is not all high end graphics for games and movies. Far from that fact actually. CG is the sole practice of making graphics on a computer and its carious possible programs that you can use. CG can range from a photoshop drawing to the image above and even to the last post's image. As said in a previous post, art and design is almost completely dissolved into the digital media and age. It is most likely many things now will be rendered in CG formats. However from a personal standpoint, I love the high end stuff like the last post the most. However works like the image above is ok as well, but I like the pretty stuff.

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For a few posts I would like to talk about CG, or Computer Graphics. The image above was all made on a computer and most likely with the aid of a program. Now not all CG are still images, they can be video too. Many movies today use CG when they can not get something done because it is not humanly possible and still can't be done with wires. They turn to CG and make it look as real as possible and then proceed with the process. The image above shows what I plan to do with my life, only in game design. The amount of detail is great and the human female is made accurately. It is a great piece. There are those who do this without any education on the matter, but they have pure talent. I hope to learn this in school with the modeling and design classes given to me.

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The last three posts and now finally including this one were all found by searching for celestial. I end this series with this vector-like art. It is indeed great to look at, but what of the process that went into making this? My answer is that I wish I knew. I would love to make great vector art like this, but I have little knowledge and talent in making something even basic. Which is why I need to extend my knowledge like everyone else should. We should all never stop learning in what we love to do. Mine is Video games and then graphic art, so I will always be looking into those. It today’s world and economy, we can not afford to fall behind in out personal learning. It is essential to get to where you want to be in your life.

Intersting

Sometimes there are artists, or just people, who can create works of art that are visually awesome, but still seem to be strange............or at the very least interesting. The above image is no exception. Artists these days are no better than Picasso, trying to mess with out minds and just ask why. The above image is a great visual piece, but the person seems to be throwing me off a bit. Is that a smile i see? While it is draining the life out of Earth or something? It seems the artists has some future plans we may need to know about. I could never come up with something like this let alone be able to make it. It IS interesting and visually appealing, but that is all I can say about it. Like Picasso’s work, I can’t begin to fathom what the maker was thinking when this was made.

Texture

Texture is what you feel when you touch something physically. Above is an image with a visible texture which was used to give it a grungy effect. The human mind always wants to make the body touch things, me included. I always think "What if I touched it?" or "What does it feel like?" Well that only happens when I can't make a guess. Here I can make a guess. It is grungy so it would feel like rough or hard, although it is shiny in the corner and dark in the others, like it should be soft. Everything has a texture but you can make some things more interesting by giving it a visual texture aside from its physical one. I will always wonder how people come up with these textures as it is easy to know that they took an image in photoshop and overplayed the texture onto it. Aside from that, the image is pretty nice.

Open Canvas

For those of you who can draw, I recommend Open Canvas programs. The image above was done 90% in Open Canvas and 10% in Photoshop. Such good digital art, drawn by hand is great. There are many people who do this, but the world could use more artists drawing their art digitally and editing them with other programs if they so desire. The world is shifting into a digital age and sooner or later, everything will probably be digital, even paintings. I am not saying everything HAS to be digital, but it seems inevitable to not move on with the change. As the digital things come, people will get even lazier and will want to see online museums rather than going to one themselves most of the time. It is kinda sad and good at the same time. Good as out technology and knowledge grow, but sad as people become too dependent on such things.

Urban Violence

While this image looks awesome and the manipulation to make it look gloomy and in terror is simply just awesome, that is not why I chose it this time around. It is more of a parody on violence in urban areas. The only people are is maybe those in cars or maybe the guy walking on the right. What does it mean? It shows just how people are just turning a blind eye to all these events, even if they are out in the open. Gangs and other criminals do what they want until they kill someone or rob a convenient store and are caught on camera or something. Tthis picture can give you the wrong idea with the monster things attacking, but it is meant to be ridiculous to throw you off. It is just an example of how we are too busy with our own personal issues to even look at the problems around us.