I often get inquiries -- "Can I buy the entire set of orange men for a reduced price?" For perhaps over a year this little known opportunity has existed on the rare gem of a website known as "Clipartof.com".
A little factoid concerning clipartof.com: The Orange Man practically lives there. I like to think of all of the websites I supply my art through as cities that I visit as a traveling merchant. Examples to follow:
Istockphoto is like that bustling super-metropolis filled with art and talent of every sort, fully populated with coffee shops where people exchange ideas and vision together. Its a supercity that is sparkling and refined.
Shutterstock strikes me as a more industrial city with merchants hurriedly running in and out, with their product selling faster than it can be stocked. Its a little more unrefined, but useful to those who have more creative ability.
Dreamstime and Crestock are somewhat like those medium sized towns with their own set of strengths.
Clipartof.com, though, is far different. Its like a small private town, almost a gated community. Only a few artists in comparison are found here, but the selection is the cream of the crop as far as illustrations available. Its more family oriented, and there is not even the slightest hint of beaurocracy. One might think it was a private club secretly opened to the public -- the best of both worlds! Any artwork bought from clipartof.com also has a much wider ability for use due to the user license agreement.
This is where the orange man has truly blossomed and discovered himself, and where the best deals can be found in his use! Most sites have one or two color versions of the design mascot (also known as orange man), but Clipartof.com has 11 color versions! Clipartof.com is also the only site that sells them in bulk packages for a reduced rate. For those of you who have taken a liking to the orange man, its highly, highly suggested that you see both the package deals as well as the color versions.
Feel free to contact them with questions. They will treat you like family.
As promised, here is the first free image hot off the render pipeline! Nikola Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter. More than likely I will be producing many more images on this subject.
Bringing to Life a Historic Dream.
I sent out the call to those interested in being a part of resurrecting this interesting, yet almost forgotten piece of history, the Wardenclyffe Tower. Especially a drafting person to fill in the technical gaps in design. The response was overwhelmingly non-existent! One could hear a cricket chirp all the from the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospić, Austrian Empire. In response to that half interested cricket, I've begun and am now well into this project of creating a somewhat realistic visualisation of this forgotten dream.
I have acculated a small collection of visual references plus some overall measurements of the tower, but much of it as like piecing together a fossil, having to to re-invent certain parts of it to fill in the gaps that have been lost to the erosion that time tends to exert.
Despite the extremely low response, I do believe these images will be very helpful on the subject. After scouring the libraries and internet for resources, its now apparent that any future individual looking for Nikola Tesla related imaging will be benefited. See screenshots of the progress in this blog post.
Oh, Nikola Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospić, Austrian Empire.
Wardenclyffe Tower 3d Visualization,
Upcoming JesterArts Illustrations.
Would you like to read an inspiring, powerful, and yet sad story? Read Man out of Time, by Margaret Cheney. Nikola Tesla was different from other inventors of his day or prior in many ways. He is credited for pioneering the concept of alternating current, creating the alternating current motor, plus a few other concepts that literally drive industry today.
But who has ever heard of the wireless transmission of electrical energy? He had hoped to accomplish this through his concept of the "magnifying transmitter". This was his greatest dream, of which all of his work was leading up to. It would be a clean, efficient, and elegant way to provide communications services and energy to the entire globe without power lines or environmentally destructive methods of any sort. It seems like a thing of the future, and yet it was on the verge of becoming a reality as far back as 1903.
The Wardenclyffe Tower which was to house the magnifying transmitter was near completion and then shut down when investors realized a disturbing fact concerning this invention: Who can profit from supplying free energy? A new type of technological society was at its birth in those days. Industry much the same as our present day was powered not by electricity, but money. So many of Tesla's inventions and endeavors were really just stepping stones to this grand invention which he would never complete due to economic reasons. He did not see this as a defeat. He stated: "The present is theirs ; the future, for which I really work , is mine."
Photo example below of the almost completed Wardenclyffe Tower:
So this project, a realistic 3d depiction of the Wardenclyffe tower, has been on my to-do list for a long time. I'll be using the free open source software Blender 3d to create it, and the resulting illustrations will be free to use keeping in stride with the purpose behind the invention itself: Keeping it FREE.
I'll be giving attention to all of the important details and will be making special efforts not to stray from accuracy. I will also do various renditions of the same model to serve educators and enthusiasts alike for any purpose they find. It will be free, and no, its not a marketing ploy. Keep checking back for updates.
NOTE: I am looking for qualified volunteers to help with layouts for the tower itself. See this thread:
http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=40841
PROJECT: Mindsystems Robot Mascot.
This is a brief project summary for customers who would like to know the process of completing an illustration project for their business through JesterArts.
I worked with Mindsystems on the creative development of a new mascot logo, for their new product 'Mindsystems Amode'. Mindsystems runs a fun, dynamic and experienced work place...they wanted to reflect their corporate culture in their new mascot. So I came up with Mindbot! Asides from being a fun bunch to work with, it looks like their new product is awesome! (http://www.mindsystems.com)"
Here is the initial render with the bare shapes, based closely on the concept sketch:
The details on the body of the robot were loosely represented in the initial sketch, but a lot was open to creative flow. Alex had already created a professional and attractive pattern for the website involving semi-transparent squares, so it was a no-brainer to make sure the robot himself included these. I did a vector derivative of his initial pattern, and then adapted it to the robot in the UV mapping. Squares pattern example below:
It was a great example of an ideal project in the creative flow, the fun shared, and basically what one can experience when coming to JesterArts for such projects.
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Its time for a vacation, I think. Today I stopped at a bike shop and checked out some Kawasaki Ninjas, and for once I actually found myself interested in the real thing, and not just wondering how I'd make a model of it.
But while I'm still locked in the 3d thing, exploring new horizons with concepts, here is a small breakdown of how this stuff is done! Are you a customer? This will be enjoyable to see what is done to get to the finished product.
No doubt you've seen enough behind-the-scenes extra features -- heck, a twelve year old knows it by now -- to know whats involved in the creation of a 3d character! But here's another one in case you haven't had enough!
Most 3d artists enjoy showing the rendered product, but many 3d artists want to see the wireframe where a true assessment of quality can be made. Its not enough to construct the 3d model to "look right" but the "Edge flow", that is, the arrangement of the geometry, must be properly created to allow the greatest and most natural range of movement.
The map on the right is a typical texture map, wrapping an image around the model itself. All 3d model textures are stored as flat images, assigned to "UV coordinates". UV coordinates are the same as XY, except with different letters, so that its not confused with XY coordinates of 3d space.
The end result is an ant of low geometric detail that looks realistic, due to a strategic use of textures.
Leo
You will find them on http://www.jesterartsillustrations.com/free-images
See more examples below.
Here it is, finally, after two years, a complete design among all of JesterArts branding! JesterArts.net has been redesigned to the new look! This begins a new journey in the JesterArts occupation. We will continue to create images specific to the needs of the market, especially on our popular robot and orange man series, but now our concern will be mostly with creating free, meaningful images for general audiences. Why? Because we really are that crazy, and we know we can make more money by giving our product away!
Society is indeed a grand puzzle to be explored. The JesterArts way is to explore the ironies and paradoxes of society and bring them to a humorous or thought provoking light through the power of illustration.
You will find that this has been somewhat of a focus in past illustrations, if you look through our portfolio from past years. But now we're going to supercharge this aspect of JesterArts imaging, and you will not cease to be entertained!
Click here for explanation of "the box" picture on the right.
Our images, true to the original role of the Jester, will deliver humorous truths in a way that, perhaps, most would not attempt for fear of "the assumed" rules of human society. Unlike similar roles today, which aim to push the limits on what is exceptable to human standards, JesterArts simply wishes to manifest ironies, puzzles, and paradoxes, or even ellusive truths in the workings of modern man. And all of this we wish to do in a way which does not venture into political areas or cause great offense, or push the limits. The JesterArts way is simply to provoke thought, not bitterness.
Notice the image to the left. The worker ants are obviously not trapped by any physical barrier, but seem unable to cross the line encircling them which is merely lightly drawn on the ground. Some of them have stepped over it without knowing!
You can't see it, but the ant outside the circle looking at all the other ones is wearing an invisible Jester Hat! Lots of people wear these, sometimes without knowing it! You might be one of these people. If you are, keep checking back!
Where can you get logos created on old school wisdom with modern day appeal? Greenscreen Graphics. And Greenscreen graphics always constructs its logos with environmentally friendly pixels and vectors!
Having learned and seen the workings of Greenscreen graphics first hand, and its tested and true insights on business design I can say this: Your business identity will thrive in the hands of Graphics. Indeed many businesses have!
Its also worth noting that he plays a good golf game, enjoyes nature-friendly technology, and fractal designs. :D
Contact Michael Gauthier: Greenscreen@gmail.com
Picture examples courtesy of Greenscreen graphics.
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