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Sand Tufas

You could be forgiven for thinking that the otherworldly rock formations in these pictures come from another planet, or from a sci-fi movie perhaps. But they’re actually called sand tufas and they come from right here on earth.

A tufa is a peculiar form of calcium carbonate, and they’re created when calcium-bearing freshwater springs well up through alkaline lake water (which is rich in carbonates). The carbonate and calcium combine and, over centuries, these elements form unusual spires, towering columns, and strange cauliflower-shaped mounds which can reach heights of up to nine metres (30ft). Tufas can only form underwater, and they’re only exposed when lakes are drained or dry out over many years. Check out this collection of pictures compiled by Bored Panda to see these curious formations for yourself.

Via + image credits

drakinite

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wow, this looks amazing.

artagonist

the hot one

lupusdraconis

My entry for Warframe’s latest art contest. The theme was “Synergy” For me, the concept was best represented by the idea of the synergy between Tenno and the Warframes, and the companionship and teamwork of other Tenno through missions within the solar system. I love the hints of spirituality within the game, particularly East Asian and Buddhism influences. When I thought of silhouettes of different frames haloed like auras around a central Tenno figure, the rest fell into place. The original concept had more of a tarot feel, with Kubrows, Kavats, and Sentinels in the corners, but as much as I love them, I feel that would have made the composition too cluttered.

I had way too much fun sorting different frames into different chakra meanings…

As an extra bonus, here is the galaxy that forms the background. I was really happy with how it came out and you barely get to see any of it. Ah well! So it goes.

The font used in the art is by luizjales

dandraco

It took me a while to notice but the female tenno has the silhouettes of the female warframes, and the male tenno has the male warframes. VERY nice detail.

lupusdraconis

Not all of them! The female tenno has Atlas and Oberon, the male tenno has Mirage. I thought about doing that, but I actually didn’t want to keep them explicitly gendered to one or the other, since it doesn’t really matter what gender your tenno is, you can pick whatever warframe you want. I also spent a while sorting the frames into the chakras and by recognizeable silhouette, and sorting them by gender just made it way too complicated.

drakinite

Hot yo. I hope this gets at least noticed by the competition, it looks great.

A lovely quote on a door on a building in my area, thought it’d be worth sharing

#hdr photography #hdr #my art #red door #door #photomatix #photoshop #low saturation

A nice HDR picture I took a few weeks ago. The editing in Photoshop took a lot longer than expected. Shot on my LG G4.

#photo #bridge #photoshop #photomatix #hdr #lg g4 #my art

isn’t tumblr great

#playing gods #vylis #playing gods shit #isnt tumblr great #minimal animation

GOTTA GO FAST WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

#playing gods #xriah #air humping #pelvic thrust #drakinite #my art #what am i doing with my life

I crappily modelled a book. Took me a while because I kept getting distracted by the internet.

#everyday #my art #book

Day 2: Meh, it’s not the best. The render quality sucks. But this time, I made everything myself, which I’m proud of.

I tested with giving the ground texture (as opposed to simple colors) but I think I would have had to spend a lot more time on it to make the texture look decent.

This sort of landscape makes me think of old-school runescape, which, well... The graphics have improved a lot since then, so I’ve got a long way to go before I can compete with their realtime graphics with even one individually-rendered frame.

#maya #everyday #landscape #motivation #gross lighting #my art

Day 1: Welp, I got farther than I thought.

This is the result of a tutorial I followed by OnlineMediaTutor; and, while it’s not the best it could be, it looks pretty nice, especially for my first shot at Maya. I build everything myself, but I mostly just followed instructions, and I did not make the textures.

#everyday #my art #space #motivation

So I’m going to be doing everydays.

Inspired by Beeple and Kung Fu Panda 2, I will be trying to learn Maya. I will start veeery small, learning the interface as I go. I probably won’t start doing any actual rendering until the far future. I am installing it right now, and I’ll post *something* soon, before I go to bed. :D

Thanks, anairidh, for helping motivate me.

#motivation #3d #everyday #update

Hello

Horse

Hot.

At the end of my livestream after I finished Nightmare Eclipse’s commission, I decided to do a sketch. I liked it, so I decided to color it. And me being me, I decided to challenge myself to:

1) Use a brush I’ve never used before

2) Keep a uniform size on the brush

3) Stay in one layer.

The entire body and all clothing and everything is in one layer, then the effects/shadow/text have their own layers. But man, I had a great time. At first, when starting on the body, the colors seemed REALLY off; but once I built the rest of the stuff, it started coming together. I’d say this was quite a successful experiment!

@lupusdraconis has always been telling me to not be afraid to push further and further to see what works. This time, I finally did it by myself. I did stuff I’d never done before with shading; like using 3 distinct colors, and adding pure white and black to the extreme highlights/shadows. Woooooo! Time to sleep!