6 posts tagged “cute”
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The orange man has his own website! Thanks to the unsung heros at www.ClipArtOf.Com, this cute little hub of orange man activity now exists on the internet! This site is special! It will exist specifically for the purpose of making orange men available to the internet in much broader supply!
Curious? http://www.orange-man.com/ is where its happening. Most people don't know this, but if you put your nose to your computer monitor and smell the orange man, you can actually smell the citrus-ness eminating from the little character. Stop what your doing and smell this picture below:
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I've just completed a new robot for the AO-Maru series! Since a hard drive crash some time ago, I had lost the original model for a webcam robot that had gained some popularity, so this new robot will be replacing it! I was going for "Clean" and also wanted to create a few variations simulating sketches and technical drawings. He will be a good friend for AO-Maru!
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I have no sense of style. I'm not kidding. I dress horribly. I can render a good digital image, but see no problem in wearing striped shirt with aloha print surf shorts. I would not know this was a bad match unless a number of people had mentioned it.
So what business do I have attaching all of these illustrations of mine to clothing designs and stuff? Actually, I have no business doing this at all, and I do risk having my creative license revoked as a result. But it is a fact that there are others (maybe millions) like me who have absolutely no sense of style and would just love to be covered in prints of orange men and blue robots (yes, wearing both at the same time) and its to these people that I will reach out to!
So here it is, I'm setting up a zazzle store to cater to those style-challenged eccentrics who wish to express themselves through goofy little characters and clever sayings. You can even get matching coffee mugs! Examples below. (PS -- T-shirt model is not me.)

AO-Maru Group Standing Out, i'm different by JesterArts
Shop for tee shirts online at www.zazzle.com
More Satire T-Shirts

AO-Maru Rocket, ROCKET FUEL - Customized by JesterArts
Create mugs At zazzle
Browse other Science Fiction Mugs
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My biggest personal discovery as a "designer" (I try not to use this term too much) is that there life outside of orange. This has altered my entire world, considering I was born only being able to see the "orange" part of the color spectrum. Now that I'm healed and can see more of the world (admittedly I have used some blues) in all of its wonderful colors, I've now taken all of those little orange men and adapted most of them to other color horizons...like blue...green...yellow...coffee.....
Here's some examples:
www.Clipartof.com has the greatest selection of these alternate colors. See here: http://www.clipartof.com/portfolio/leoblanchette
(If you check my other sites such as Istock or Crestock you will mostly see just orange men). My hope is that these added colors will open up new design possibilities -- or at least just add convenience!
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Yet another 3d robotic creation! This was a lot of fun -- I wanted to make a robot that was somewhat realistic and didn't take long to render. The result was this 3d webcam robot.
He is created in blender 3d, and uses material nodes (basically overlapping material effects) as well as render nodes (sort of like an in-program post-processing tool like photoshop) to create the effect of realism. He doesn't actually require raytracing to achieve the "real" so renders take less than five minutes. In the near future I'm going to get a huge line of images produced on a variety of subjects. In the meantime, his existing images are highly useful!
Feel free to check them out!
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AO-Maru the Friendly Robot.
I created this robot as a sort of "friendliness assistant" to designers. AO-Maru is a technological wonder, inquisitive in nature, and does his job very well when it comes to bringing to life concepts such as (obviously) robotics, web design, programming, and more. He's also been used in medical and community design projects!
Like all of my 3d work, he is created and rendered in Blender 3d. This particular model uses Yafray to render, since yafray does a wonderful job at accomplishing realism without having to wait five days for the render to complete.
In the near future I intend to render many more poses, hopefully involving unique objects besides the robot himself, and involved in as many conceptual and useable situations as possible.
If you would like to see the entire series, feel free to visit my website or my flickr photostream.
If you would like any special poses, please send me your requests. I may be able to get a few done.