art | Vivid Foundry https://vividfoundry.com Creativity emerges, even from structure. Sat, 13 Apr 2024 23:12:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Solace State: Emotional Cyberpunk Stories is now available! https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2023/10/01/solace-state-is-now-available/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:56:28 +0000 https://vividfoundry.com/?p=3286 Unite the people and ignite the revolution. As a hacker, make your mark in hundreds of moral choices. 3D Visual Novel Solace State is available today on Steam and Xbox! You can pick up your own copy at: Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/928000/Solace_State_Emotional_Cyberpunk_Stories/ Xbox: https://www.xbox.com/en-IE/games/store/solace-state/9nr5h934436j Remember, you’ll get to meet Torrent! Here’s his new social profile:   Additionally, […]

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]]> GDC 2015: A Journey in Learning https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2015/03/29/gdc-2015-a-journey-in-learning/ Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:43:32 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=1679 GDC was such a whirlwind of experiences, inspirations, and constant learning. Learning came in many forms, whether they were in workshops, at chill-out lounges, at talks, in the Yerba Buena Gardens, at parties, at the expo, at luncheons, at roundtables, and more. It was cathartic to be surrounded by so many talented individuals from so […]

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]]> My 2014 freelance year in review: Remembering to Learn https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2015/01/02/game-dev-2014-remember-to-learn/ Fri, 02 Jan 2015 02:18:43 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=1564 People have encouraged me to keep my passions strong about my own work. But, there were some dark moments of 2014 that I took my own passions for granted. For example, during crunch times of consistent 80-hour-plus work weeks, I have forgotten the extent of how to manage my own energy output. I tunnel-visioned on […]

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]]> My First Lean Startup Machine: A Network of Possibilities https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2014/07/10/my-first-lean-startup-machine-art-network/ https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2014/07/10/my-first-lean-startup-machine-art-network/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:09:03 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=1439 So hey, I’m one step closer to being a triple-threat model: 3D modeler, photographic model, business modeler. All joking aside, I was really nervous about joining up for Lean Startup Machine (LSM) workshop this weekend. Sure, I had read The Lean Startup book by Eric Ries, but to apply it as a group in a […]

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]]> https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2014/07/10/my-first-lean-startup-machine-art-network/feed/ 6 Drink by the pump: graphite concept drawing https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/12/02/stilettos-drink/ Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:23:43 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=738   Just my take on the glossy magazines, the glamour, the end of the night… I have been doing a lot of sketches of different materials lately – marble, hardwood floors, now in the form of still life. I love this form of reconstructing and deconstructing paper through the pastiche of drawing. Execution took under […]

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]]> Lobby: Illustration https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/30/lobby-illustration/ Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:37:21 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=716 Progress shots and final for an interior architectural illustration, 2-point perspective. Graphite pencils. So far: 2B, F, HB, B2.

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]]> Dreams living: Sketchbook https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/11/dreams-living-sketchbook/ Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:49:42 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=619     Dreams of small, sublime (sometimes frightful) things. First illustration in ink; Second in graphite pencils.

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]]> Pencils and pastels: More figurative https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/06/pencils-and-pastels-more-figurative/ Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:36:38 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=799 Here is a series of figurative drawings in varying styles and mediums. First two were done with conte and pastels respectively, from live model, in 2006. This one below was completed less than two weeks ago. It was drawn on capriciously beautiful textile recycled paper, which made the whole process very unforgiving, because any erasing […]

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]]> Moving sideways from cultural hegemony? https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/08/28/moving-sideways-from-cultural-hegemony/ https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/08/28/moving-sideways-from-cultural-hegemony/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:54:01 +0000 http://enginetones.wordpress.com/?p=387 This post is part of an intricate conversation centring on the question of whether there is a unified and narrowed message presented dominantly through corporate media, and whether or not it inherently socializes subservience from top-down towards an ever highly-media saturated group of entertainment consumers. Very quickly, we find that we cannot escape from certain […]

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