Kids Learn About Professional Artists- 3D Graphics

I recently stumbled across the work of Samuel Conlogue, and couldn’t even comprehend what it was that he did. I knew he was an artist, and I knew I was really impressed by his work, but I was confused.

The world of computer-generated design can be very confusing to those of us who aren’t all that technologically inclined. I mean, I do a lot of my own coding on my websites, so I’m completely impressed with myself, but it ends there.

Check these out:

He created these using a COMPUTER.

Also, I’m fine with showing my kids these images, but he also warned me that when he presented his work to a high school class, he got feedback that “…some of the kids present felt uncomfortable with the sexual nature of the full body images. The one parent in attendance apparently agreed. It never occurred to me this would be an issue in a class of mostly 17 and 18 year graphics students. So considering this I would suggest only using the shoulder up images.”

I’m throwing caution to the wind and posting the images, but I’ll let you decide if you want to show them to your kids.

Here are some more pieces I snagged from his portfolio:

I asked him to explain to me what he does in terms that a child would understand, because I think kids should see what artists in the real world do. Contrary to what I believed when I was little, not all artists stand behind an easel all day, full of angst.

Here’s what he told me:

I produce images and animations by creating three dimensional characters, environments and objects or whatever you can imagine in a 3D graphics program. Once you have built the objects in the computer you can create textures and materials to give parts of the objects different properties like metal, paint, glass etc. Finally you add lights of different types, colors and intensities just like a photographer would in a photo studio. Then the final step is to “Render” which is where the computer calculates the light, materials and objects to create your final images.

So what do you think? Cool, huh? Or are you still thinking about how impressed you are about me doing coding?