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Those DD's definitely fill up the message box.
And it's definitely an ego boost.
It's always fun to pick up a new gaggle of watchers.
If you ever see something that you think is deserving of a DD, find out who the gallery moderators are and go to their page. (whoever featured that particular DD)
Often they will explain what the ground rules for nominating a piece for a DD are.
It's fun to get someone's piece chosen by suggesting it for a DD. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.
And it's definitely an ego boost.
It's always fun to pick up a new gaggle of watchers.
If you ever see something that you think is deserving of a DD, find out who the gallery moderators are and go to their page. (whoever featured that particular DD)
Often they will explain what the ground rules for nominating a piece for a DD are.
It's fun to get someone's piece chosen by suggesting it for a DD. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.
I'll have to try that. I sometimes find galleries with awesome work in them and so few page views. Theres many artists here who deserve away more exposure than they get.
I'm with you. I've seen some people's work here that is magnificent and have very few page views.
At the same time I've seen those with a ton of views and I question why they are popular.
At the same time I've seen those with a ton of views and I question why they are popular.
Some catagouries here are extremely popular….anime for instance, so anything related to that gets a LOT of attention, comic art and fan art is also a good crowd drawer. So sometimes it's not the quality of the art but the subject matter that gets all the page views. I love going on DA 'walkabout' and have found myself in some very strange, esoteric places: whole groups of folk doing stuff I'd never even dreamt would be popular; giantess art….basically giant girls eating (but not chewing…this is important it seems) other girls/guys, pages devoted to people being carried, either in a cradling way or the fireman's carry seems to be the most popular and for some bizarre reason many of them are carrying Wonder Woman (go figure!). Vore…short for carnivore…thats just girls being eaten by things, but some of it is hilarious; really badly photoshopped photos of porn stars or models in the mouthes of alligators or snakes or some such. One of my favourite (and most baffling…to me at least) are the ones that are usually in comic book form and feature guys who inexplicably gradually turn into girls and then have relations with other girls…lol. So basically if we want more page views and comments we need to either feature japanese, androgens characters with improbably large eyes or hit some sort of dubious fetish market!!! (I may even try some out one day…it might be fun!)
Hee hee!....Man, you are surfing DA much deeper than I have!
I have to admit, DA has really helped me to think outside my comfort zone and outside the box.
I love stumbling across someone's work that gives me what I call the 'Homer Simpson sees a doughnut' reaction.
That gut feeling that flows over you.
Getting my first two Franksenstein's Monster busts colored...I'm excited to post pix of them.
One will be colored(green skin, purple and yellow clothes, per the client) and the other will just be variations of grey to black like it's out of an old black and white movie.
I'm struggling with the castings because the mould maker did a crappy job on the mould.
He didn't blow the air out of the detailed areas....(pissed me off big time.)
I'm going to be hitting my buddy Tim Miller up for a lesson in proper mould making.
The closest I've ever gotten to the fetish thing is tying a string around my finger as a kid and watching my fingertip turn purple....Ha haha!
Oh yeah, plus I put clothes pins on my earlobes....Does that qualify?
I have to admit, DA has really helped me to think outside my comfort zone and outside the box.
I love stumbling across someone's work that gives me what I call the 'Homer Simpson sees a doughnut' reaction.
That gut feeling that flows over you.
Getting my first two Franksenstein's Monster busts colored...I'm excited to post pix of them.
One will be colored(green skin, purple and yellow clothes, per the client) and the other will just be variations of grey to black like it's out of an old black and white movie.
I'm struggling with the castings because the mould maker did a crappy job on the mould.
He didn't blow the air out of the detailed areas....(pissed me off big time.)
I'm going to be hitting my buddy Tim Miller up for a lesson in proper mould making.
The closest I've ever gotten to the fetish thing is tying a string around my finger as a kid and watching my fingertip turn purple....Ha haha!
Oh yeah, plus I put clothes pins on my earlobes....Does that qualify?
Haha!…I wasn't suggesting we indulge in the fetishes…merely that it might be fun to try it in our art! I'd love to see you do a take on 'vote'…lol.
Sorry to hear about your moulding problems…it's always a risk surrendering over a piece to people you have little confidence in. Does that mean you're going to have to do lots of post-casting clean up? I'm pretty vague on the whole moulding process for bronze work…do you still get a wax from a master mould and then cover that in some kind of ceramic for a lost wax type cast?
Sorry to hear about your moulding problems…it's always a risk surrendering over a piece to people you have little confidence in. Does that mean you're going to have to do lots of post-casting clean up? I'm pretty vague on the whole moulding process for bronze work…do you still get a wax from a master mould and then cover that in some kind of ceramic for a lost wax type cast?
Hee hee....I know.
what is this piece 'vote' you speak of?
Yeah, I was pretty pissed off when I got the mould.
They are indeed taking a lot of post-casting work to get them to look good.
These are actually resin casts so I'm doing them myself.
I would love to cast them in bronze after I get the mould re-done.
You're right about the casting process.
If you want to see the foundry I used to work at go to www.artcastings.com
Tony still runs it and is an awesome guy. They do incredible work.
There's a video of the process and a video of some of the artists and employees as well.
They have people from all over the world shipping them their work to cast.
I talked my buddy Jerome who works at Pixar to have their Buzz and Woody awards cast there.
It's funny to stop in there and see all the little Buzz Lightyear and Woody bronzes standing there in a row. (sometimes 200 at a time.)
pixartimes.com/2012/03/27/extr…
what is this piece 'vote' you speak of?
Yeah, I was pretty pissed off when I got the mould.
They are indeed taking a lot of post-casting work to get them to look good.
These are actually resin casts so I'm doing them myself.
I would love to cast them in bronze after I get the mould re-done.
You're right about the casting process.
If you want to see the foundry I used to work at go to www.artcastings.com
Tony still runs it and is an awesome guy. They do incredible work.
There's a video of the process and a video of some of the artists and employees as well.
They have people from all over the world shipping them their work to cast.
I talked my buddy Jerome who works at Pixar to have their Buzz and Woody awards cast there.
It's funny to stop in there and see all the little Buzz Lightyear and Woody bronzes standing there in a row. (sometimes 200 at a time.)
pixartimes.com/2012/03/27/extr…
Bloody spellcheck!!…I meant 'Vore'
If you're casting out in resin then the mould making process should be relatively simple for a man with your skills. But I do know what it's like to suffer at the hands of sloppy mould makers and how infuriating it is. When I first started in make up effects we just didn't have mould makers, we did it all ourselves. I can remember two occasions where we tried using union 'plasterers', who are supposed to be mould makers but are more accustomed to building sets and making the huge mouldings needed for such. The first time was because we were contractually obliged to use them and this one guy spent so long moulding a full sized sealion I'd sculpted that the clay was drying out and falling off the armature. He'd do one piece of the mould and then go home for the night leaving the thing unwrapped!
The second time we sent the full sized bodies we'd sculpted for Event Horizon (a movie). The bodies were sculpted in wax and when the finished things came back all the detail was gone and the things were covered in these swirling brush marks. It turned out the the mould makers had used a wax release agent let down in a solvent and simply painted it over our sculpts and of course the solvent dissolved OUR wax as well!!
Happily our industry is more sophisticated these days, more departmentalised, with some very skilled people specialising in all these different disciplines. Having said that theres still only a few mould makers I'd trust with any personal work of mine.
Those little Buzz's are very cool….but Pixar have been going for 26 years??!!!….OMG I'm getting old!!!
If you're casting out in resin then the mould making process should be relatively simple for a man with your skills. But I do know what it's like to suffer at the hands of sloppy mould makers and how infuriating it is. When I first started in make up effects we just didn't have mould makers, we did it all ourselves. I can remember two occasions where we tried using union 'plasterers', who are supposed to be mould makers but are more accustomed to building sets and making the huge mouldings needed for such. The first time was because we were contractually obliged to use them and this one guy spent so long moulding a full sized sealion I'd sculpted that the clay was drying out and falling off the armature. He'd do one piece of the mould and then go home for the night leaving the thing unwrapped!
The second time we sent the full sized bodies we'd sculpted for Event Horizon (a movie). The bodies were sculpted in wax and when the finished things came back all the detail was gone and the things were covered in these swirling brush marks. It turned out the the mould makers had used a wax release agent let down in a solvent and simply painted it over our sculpts and of course the solvent dissolved OUR wax as well!!
Happily our industry is more sophisticated these days, more departmentalised, with some very skilled people specialising in all these different disciplines. Having said that theres still only a few mould makers I'd trust with any personal work of mine.
Those little Buzz's are very cool….but Pixar have been going for 26 years??!!!….OMG I'm getting old!!!
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