Computer Animation Arts

Saw these thought of you: everyday objects rendered as life-size wireframes - in wire ! "...if I try to retrace the origins of my wire sculptures, the thread of memory leads directly back to the internal world of the early cardboard sculptures. Generating an amorphous form from a static material necessitates an understanding of the principles of inner structure and external cover--skeleton and skin. Similarly, the zeppelin demonstrates that a skeletal structure by itself can describe the shape and volume of the entire form. This may sound simple and obvious. Nevertheless, in a drawing of a zeppelin, the individual lines, their paths, and the net-like structure they depict present an illusion of plasticity. We often forget the high degree of abstraction occurring on a two-dimensional sheet of paper: the curving horizontal and vertical lines suggesting a three-dimensional form to us, while supplying precise information about the border between the object and the external world. Li...