https://makersplace.com/midlet/garden-1-of-1-27359/
Something new I made and threw up just now on MakersPlace. It's pretty easy to get addicted to MP. I've been selling pieces pretty regularly and I could see this whole thing really having legs as an industry.
One of the things that bothered me at first was the idea of my work being resold at higher prices in the future, but come to find out, when you sell a piece there, you earn royalties on that piece for life. This is actually a crazy concept when you think about it because this is executed via a smart contract. These pieces could be being resold 100 years from now and the royalty would still go to that address. Blockchain is so cool.
I made this of course in Cinema 4D using Octane as the renderer. Nothing fancy in the generation of all the cubes, just some combinations of effectors, the fancier stuff is happening in the materials.
The plain English breakdown, is that each cube is assigned a random color, then those colors are remapped to a grayscale gradient, then that greyscale gradient is again remapped to a color scheme of my choosing, then that color information is piped into two different materials, and I use a simplified version of the original grayscale remap to define which material goes on which cube. Simple!
One of the funny parts for me of uploading work on MP is filling in the description. I unfortunately don't typically have some deep thoughtful reason for creating. It's just what I do, so the name and the description are random as hell and I sometimes throw in some inside joke that I wonder if anyone gets. As a Hive exclusive, I'll tell you all. I named this one "Garden" because with the colors, it made me think of a salad or something, then in the description I put "Greens, Beans, Potatoes, Tomatoes" which is from this old video.
Hopefully I'll get around to posting more, haven't had as much time lately, but I've been looking and curating all the cools stuff you've all been posting. Keep it up OCArtists!
See you all in the next post.