La Condition Humaine (Human Condition)

[enricoceric]

Playing with nodes and compositing, I made something diffrent from what I use to publish.

Modelled and rendered with Blender
Some postprocessing with PS

Hope you like

C&C are welcome of course

http://users.skynet.be/myline/3D/153.jpg

The nodes settings

http://users.skynet.be/myline/3D/154.jpg

[enricoceric]

For those of you interested by the nodes settings I added a screen shot of the nodes configuration screen.

[Claws]

Very surreal - lovely.

[BeBraw]

Excellent use of compositing tools!

[enricoceric]

Thanks guys for your comments.

[vliegtuig]

Magritte is not very far off.
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[enricoceric]

Magritte is not very far off.
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You got it :) You know I am living in Belgium and then I am very concerned by the surrealism and to be honest this is a tribute to Magritte, one of my favorite surrealist artists and IMO the most authentic.

[cekuhnen]

i am not a big fan of the flat humans in the back ground.

i love the rest of the scene. somehow i think the flat figues just do not work together with the 3d aspect of your scene.

maybe it is also that they seem not to make real sense. what are they doing? i think their action is not uniform enough.

claas

[vliegtuig]

Enrico, you're leaving Belgium?
It'd better be good then :)
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EDIT: wait a minute... unless you're saying that you're LIVING in Belgium.

[enricoceric]

Enrico, you're leaving Belgium?
It'd better be good then :)
P


EDIT: wait a minute... unless you're saying that you're LIVING in Belgium.

Oups, I made a mistake :o I am living in Belgium :)

[enricoceric]

Thanks to the guy who gave me 1 *

[enricoceric]

i am not a big fan of the flat humans in the back ground.

i love the rest of the scene. somehow i think the flat figues just do not work together with the 3d aspect of your scene.

maybe it is also that they seem not to make real sense. what are they doing? i think their action is not uniform enough.

claas

This is much more a composition work, for sure it may represent something I have or I had in mind, but what I like in surrealism is that it lets everyone interpreting the subject and each one could project himself in the scene. For that reason I prefer not to give to much information and I use to introduce in the scene elements which tend to create a shifting with the reality, IMO, even the title is tendentious.

[Roger]

I agree that the Nodes are used in a very good way, in a way I know is simple enough for a soul like me, but I can't find the poject to use it in. This image, composition, is IMO really cool! I like the way it is composit and the badminton-shuttles :). Very good. ****

[LohnS]

great peice of work there! I need more practice to be able to make such good compositions. ALso godo to see great uses of nodes even though they've only been in a little while =D

Top notch work, 4 stars from me, it makes me feel like i'm in another dimension yet i'm on earth

[yogyog]

The floating flat figures are the least Magrete-like part of the work bieng far less static and dead-pan, but I like them. They bring a real scence of movement to the scene.

[momomicha]

compositing and fotorealism of the wall/window are greatly, but the other motives ? ;-)

[gallardo]

Rene would be proud of you! Very well done!
(I'm a belgian too ;))

[dodgydavec]

What a very strong image. I love it. ESPECIALLY the flat dudes.

[basse]

very magritte, but that is only a good thing ofcourse.

only crit would be the checkerboard texture.. it get's quite messy on the end, starts to look like zigzag, and the size of pawns and that don't go together.. but.. you know.. had to find something :) other than that, perfect!

great colors, great compositing.

so, white are winning.. but this one doesn't feel like celebrating? (well, who would)

this goes to gallery, but first let's get some more comments here..


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[jarkkopoika]

Wonderful abstraction!

Reminds me about those old-school, pioneer renderings from the 90´s, but not in a bad way. In technical quality it is not super, but in artistic way i really enjoy watching it. First it seemed quite basic, but after a few seconds later you find the depness of it. Composition is great. Very nice layout. This is something that modern art museums should put on their walls.

I think its those two badmintons on the window board that makes this so special. The contrast between those really common badmintons and the surreal surroundings makes this image very interesting. Why there are those two badmintons? Thats the questions everyone must find their own explanation.

If I may ask, do you have a 1280x1024 version for my desktop?

Keep up! :D

[Michael_R.]

thats really Art I think!!!
Great JOB!!

[Milky]

That's cool stuff enricoceric, very different from your other work, more expressive. Good job.

Milky

[RobertT]

Awesome image, Enrico. Five stars from me :)

I'm glad to hear this is going to the gallery as well!

All your work is amazing.

RobertT

[enricoceric]

Hey, glad to see it in the forum gallery, hard to propose non conventional works on a 3D forum but this motives me to proceed in this way. I know that not everybody will like this kind of image and the comments confirm this but that's normal, art should be considered like this, you like or not and please do not lose time to try to find good reasons to like, it should be a spontaneous feel.

@Jarkkopoika : Thanks, you got the feeling. A 1280x1024 format will require a new compositon as it is different from the actual 1024x768 but I will try to find the time to provide it.

@Basse : Thanks. Right, it was a mess to get a nice blur fx on the background chessboard, will try to improve it. The whites win ... Who really won in such a situation ? Anyway the composition implies the winners :)

Thanks to all
Enrico

[Burt.S.]

Coder's realms. Quite nice. Try to take more from gothic or north climates. I have review 5 last Blender Magazines and im impressed by cekuhnen's projects. Amazing concepts and materials (i like especially small catapults).

[jason]

may i ask what you are trying to say through this piece of artwork?

your work is consistently fabulous.

[enricoceric]

may i ask what you are trying to say through this piece of artwork?

your work is consistently fabulous.

Thanks Theblenderboy, I use to not explain my surreal compositions as I prefer to let everyone finding what he would and I do not want to orient the interpretation. Sometimes explaining such works reduces them and cancel emotions. By the way this is probably the result of several of my feelings and sometimes just a matter of composition ;)

[jason]

ah, i see.

[MorMor]

Thanks a lot maan! thanks to thet screenshot of the nodes i learned to make DOF :D thanks alot maan

[Lua]

great job as far as design, compositing, etc goes, but it chaps my rear, because i have no clue what you mean to emanate from the piece. :)