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My Own Digital Artwork – Past and the Future

// May 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // Cinema4D, Final Cut Pro

"Grape - Just Grape"

Until I set up a gallery page, I wanted to post a couple of pics of some past work.  Grape.  I wish I had some profound name for this guy but no.  Grape was done as a spec commercial for “California Grapes” The tools used: Cinema4D, Final Cut Pro, and the music I grabbed from Garageband.  I learned a lot from this project.  I learn best while on the job, books and tutorials are great but then you have to jump in and do it.  Here’s the completed video.

“Saucer Boy” is an idea created by Brad Goodchild.  Saw his idea and thought wouldn’t this be great in 3-D. Here he is in fighting mode. See video here. The ocean was created by a tutorial from 3-D World issue #74 pg. 66.  That magazine is worth every penny and why I love the U.K. and myfavouritemagazines.co.uk

Saucer Boy - The Experiment.

To recap this week’s podcast I disscussed Noupe.com Gotta love their post on the 25 spectacular C4D tutorials.  I’m on it.  Love the zebra tutorial. (more…)

Being a Digital Artist is a lot Like Being a Lawyer

// May 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Cinema4D, Photoshop

No really. It’s a quote my wife uses all the time. She went to law school and is now a web designer, go figure. I asked her to explain herself and she stated “for the most part being a lawyer is all about the research you do of the law, and think of how many laws exist; nobody’s an expert on all of them.” That makes sense. If I think of all the programs I use on one website or a video project of mine, it makes my head spin. I realize that I have to know where to go online to problem solve. Here’s a big one: Lynda.com Lynda Weinman started a series of books, Hands on Training (H.O.T.) she did them herself on web design, and photoshop. She now recruits experts in each program to give hands on training. She understands if you can, find someone much better than you and learn. Listen to my previous podcast. (more…)

Welcome. New Look. New Attitude.

// May 14th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Cinema4D, Photoshop

If you’ve visited this blog before, thank you. You are probably thinking what happened? As a digital artist you can’t underestimate 2.0 and social networking. I know I have for far too long just depended on my website Rigler Digital. No more. This blog will hopefully reflect the enthusiasm I have for all of the different software we use: Cinema4D, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver and last but not least After Effects. On the last version of the blog there had been 6 months between some posts, yea not good and not happening this time. So I hope you will subscribe now if you are new and find the posts here full of info and entertaining. To recap from our last podcast I had discussed PhotoshopDisasters and C4Dload. PhotoshopDisasters on blogspot is a great place to visit when you need to take a break from your current project and laugh. You can’t believe that this work gets approved and printed – on a very large, commercial scale. My own theory with these sites is that you can learn from others mistakes.
C4dload is from a Twitter success. The creators of c4dload found the RiglerDigital Twitter page and continue to post about their new site. It originates from Germany by Milan Herzog. Yes if you speak and write German the site is best. However, they are working very hard to make the English translation a success. I myself registered on the site and am looking forward to new tutorials and new discussions in the forum. It’s fun to participate in new sites –kind of like new blogs.