Art-direction & Shader concept
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his is a concept for a shader/post-post process look and feel for a 3d animation. I had a few models I made lying around from spec projects along with few techniques I have developed for some interesting glitchy looking graphics that cause vibrating boundaries, an effect especially interesting when the image is algorithmically resized or zoomed in on.. new patterns emerge as discrete ‘pixel sets’ are ‘occluded’. Some viewers correct this, after revealing distorted pixels or at least pixels markedly different than what you would expect from just a smaller image . Other image viewing applications keep this different version in place when at respective zoom levels.
In Shader / Art direction terms, I would like to simulate this effect or extrapolate it. This means a CG camera zooming in and out of a scene would observe some significant and unusual optical effects transitioning between distances from the texture . This image only features 3 distinct ‘pixel sets’ when you zoom in or out of the 1:1 image size…. and the effects are a bit less dramatic as is possible. Try it. Eventually I’d like to use this only as a lighting effect wherein the colors being employed are from vertex color info extrapolated from the texture of a model. Colors would be less rainbowy, less arbitrary yet still pearlescent & the procedural pattern overlay would be linked to zdepth to contribute to a bit of a DOF and chromatic abberration look and feel. As you may have guessed, Japan has really been on my mind a lot lately, as I am sure it has with many other western artists, children of the 80′s, like myself, who grew up immersed in japanese animation and visual arts, and who perhaps also had art professors who had such luminary contemporaries as Yayoi Kusuama or, yes, Yoko Ono. These are two of my favourite pop artists. I made my first visit to Tokyo about a year ago, and I hope to be back soon. My heart and mind are with the people of Japan at this time dearly.
