Weekend Contest: Famous Paintings
Image: Old Masters Unveiled, by Rob Tuytel.
Eric Varela won last weekend’s contest with his image ‘Balloon Ride at Sunrise‘, so it’s (once again) his honor to pick this weekend’s topic. And it’s going to be a tough one – read on!
Eric Varela writes:Coming from a fine art background, a common exercise is to reproduce a work of art from one of the great artists who came before you to hone your skills and technique. This weekend we are going to extend this classic tradition into the realm of 3D. Your challenge this week is to take a famous painting and reimagine it as a 3D masterpiece. There are a lot of ways to interpret this challenge, everything from a highly polished photorealistic copy of the scene in a painting, to a super stylized low poly version, to doing some really interesting things with textures, or use of the added dimension of depth, so I encourage you to really take this opportunity to let your creativity shine.
I realize not everyone out there has an art history background so if you need a little help getting started I’ll throw some names out there that I think may be well suited to this task. I’ve included links if I could find a good collection of their images online, but a quick google search will turn up just as many if not more paintings by all of them.
These three have very strong geometric forms that I think would translate beautifully into 3D space, the last one in particular is a lot of fun:
- Edward Hopper
- Charles Sheeler
- Eric Joyner
These two are much more abstract and could lend to a very fun piece using very simple shapes:
Here is some non western art that could have some very gorgeous stylistic interpertations:
Also take a look at the still life paintings of the following three heavy hitters here, they have done some gorgeous things with very simple compositions:
- Edgar Degas
- Paul Cézanne
- Vincent van Gogh
And finally be sure to include a link to the painting you’re referencing with your post! Good luck and happy blending to everyone!
Post your work below (attach an image and a screenshot if you like), and vote for your winner. The winner will get a post on monday, and will get to pick next weekend’s contest theme. Have fun!
well, i can think of only one famous art that can be done really fast :) Black square: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Malevich.black-square.jpg
With my interpretation “Black cube”
Well played :)
i have done my best :)
Here is my render of a famous Warhol painting. Also included is a WIP screenshot
http://jssgallery.org/other_artists/andy_warhol/campbells_soup_can.htm
Excellent execution! I was secretly hoping someone would bring Andy into the mix :)
I was also hoping that somebody would bring Warhole or Roy Lichtenstein to Blender and blend in some Freestyle. Amazing work.
Render de mi Habitacion de Arles. Vincent van Gogh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedroom_in_Arles
This is done in so little time? If so, congratulations! (this is weekend contest…)
That is a very small image – could you upload a larger one?
A larger image rendered on this weekend. Sorry, this is my first time.
This is great :)
My little speed for this contest…
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Brilliant take on Magritte, and really beautiful texturing too :)
thanks I only see the errors now but the goal was no more than 2 hours…
I like your render (even if I’ve never really understood abstract paintings ;-) -edit- btw I don’t think I understand Magritte either :D )
Lol I don’t think anyone understands Magritte :p
The funny thing about abstract paintings is that they came about, in part, to make art much more accessible to everyone. So much of art history is just dripping with symbolism and political and social history of the time that being able to interpret requires a degree in history as well as art to fully appreciate it. But when you paint something simple like a red square, it is the same red square to everybody, and everybody’s opinion on it is equally valid, because it is after all just a red square.
This is awesome, honestly one of my favorite works. Magritte was a genius and you’re interpretation is just, wow. Well done!
So here is my tribute to Piet Mondrian’s Composition A.
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-a-1923
Time to reach for my inner Michelangelo…
…Ow, I think I pulled a ligament!
This ia a rendering that i made some months ago. It is from my favorite Artist Maurits Cornelis Escher and it’s called Relativity.
Thanks
My personal favorite so far.
So i made Monet’s grainstack in the morning
Here’s my go: The all known and very famous “The Scream of Suzanne”. Not sure if the artist was Edvard Munch or Ton Rosendaal, the Wikipages are unavailable at time of writing.
Here is the Blender Scene screenshot, as you can see, the effect done by camera mapping is super cheap.
My first entry.
Wow, you have completely captured David Hockney’s style! Great job!
thanks! :) saw a doc about andy warhol some time ago and just loved this painting.
Oh yeah? Do you remember the name of the doc? I really love everything about Andy Warhol, from his art to him as a person to the philosophy behind his work. Also David Hockney’s work has always resonated with me. A lot of his work I think pulls at the same thread that Hoppers work does, but in a very different way. There’s always such a sense of being an outsider to the scene that hes painting, like you are there but don’t really belong.
“Low poly night”
Original: Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
This work was challenging for me because I limited myself to only using cubes, All was done in blender internal with lots in the compositor. I am happy to answer questions!
I really love the restriction that you put on yourself! I thought about including something a la The Five Obstructions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Obstructions , but figured I’d made complicated enough of a challenge to begin with. Great job.
Thank you! I enjoyed the challenge, The Five Obstructions looks really complex! You should try it Id be interested in seeing what you came up with.
“Still life with apples” by Paul Cézanne
Original: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/sl/cezanne.sl-apples.jpg
“Still life with apples” by Paul Cézanne
Original: http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibiblio.org%2Fwm%2Fpaint%2Fauth%2Fcezanne%2Fsl%2Fcezanne.sl-apples.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibiblio.org%2Fwm%2Fpaint%2Fauth%2Fcezanne%2Fsl%2F&h=872&w=1162&tbnid=Vvy1q1PaoHcR-M%3A&zoom=1&docid=rPB71dY_qieqPM&ei=CDw3U_GVFcfJtAalhIHIDg&tbm=isch&iact=rc&dur=392&page=1&start=0&ndsp=44&ved=0CFkQrQMwAQ
Very nicely done. You know I never noticed it until now, but I have no idea what that is on the plate with the apples, curious as to what your interpretation of it was.
I’ve always wondered what that yellow thing was too
I interpreted it as a peeled potato since nothing else came to my mind. However, the thing in the render is modelled to look like the one in the original painting rather than like a real potato.
Still Life with Lemons on a Plate
http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/0338/Still-Life-with-Lemons-on-a-Plate.jpg
Hi, everyone, here’s my render based on a painting of the brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral, called Abaporu, hope you enjoy! :-D
I’m Abner, the author of the render above, Forgot to log in before upload, I’m sorry for the mistake. Thanks!
It wasn’t a nose, it’s an arm! LOL
Lol I think I like it more as a nose, but great job. This is a really fun piece :)
Thank you! This painting is very famous here in Brazil, but I only figured it out this weekend haha
Wow, what a stimulating topic this week! It was difficult to choose just one picture. Here’s my choice.I didn’t find the same map as on Vermeer’s wall, so I used another one similar. I hope you like it.
Gorgeous. You have done a great job capturing the piece, and such attention to detail too!
Thank you! The details are quite simple, but there are more than I realized at the first look. What I really like on Vermeer’s paintings is that nice soft light. I love it!
first time contest entry :) based on the “tree of life” by Jennifer Lommers
image:
ignore the first image, uploaded accidentally :p , link to original: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/tree-of-life-in-autumn-jennifer-lommers.html
Wow, thats a really interesting interpretation of the piece! I really like both versions!
thanks :)
Tried to do a JMW Turner… probably not the best idea i had! Did what i could anyway.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=turner%20snow%20storm&tbs=imgo:1#q=turner+snowstorm&spell=1&tbm=isch&tbs=imgo:1
(WTH is wrong with disqus?? can’t login properly…) Somehow disqus didn’t want my image…
will this work… u_u
just epic
Well, I think here a screenshot of the scene and compositing would be very interesting…I like this interpretation very much!
Here it is. Can’t see much though! Render time : 10s.
If you don’t see much, this is a very sophisticated way of using the compositor, and I still have no clue where this is going…congratulations!
Very interesting. I can’t even begin to fathom how you did this
Wow at first I thought that was the original! Would love to see how you achieved those textures!
Hi guys ive got a lot of work this weekend and i dont really make something special.. i render my scene with 50 samples and then i export the png to gimp. In gimp i use liquify filter and then colour balance where i tweak the mid-high tones and shadows.Hope you like it
the scene is inspired by leonid afremov’s “Romantic evening painting” http://www.paintinghere.org/painting/romantic_evening-28158.html but in the process my scene is like depressing evening” loooool..
and here is the a screenshot from blender
My tribute…to a hungarian artist who worked a lot with color gradients and was somehow previsualising CG…
About one hour to render with cycles, simple cube with cast, the new wireframe and subsurf modifier.
well, the png was too heavy…
Woohoo! Great stuff. I love Vasarely
Well, these are some memories from my childhood, maybe he was the reason I am interested in anything CG nowadays…thank you!
“Lighthouse Hill” by Edward Hopper
Here’s my version of Kazimir Malevich’s painting The Red Cavalry Riding. (Sorry if it posts twice, can’t seem to get just one)
This is my entry…
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/search/napoleon/1#supersized-search-197867 (Napoleon crossing the Alps)
Lovely low poly!
Thank you :)
My 3D composition of a Claude Monet painting.
Good evening, here is my tribute to Rene Magritte, Hegel’s Holiday.
http://www.theoffbrand.com/blog/2012/02/there-are-so-few-accessories-that-a-man-can-get-away-with-without-seeming-affected-and-an-umbrella-is-one-of-the-really-thea.html
3D Render of Albert Anker’s Still Life: Two Glass of Red Wine, a Bottle of Wine; a Corkscrew and a Plate of Biscuits on a Tray.
http://www.most-famous-paintings.org/Still-Life–Two-Glass-of-Red-Wine,-a-Bottle-of-Wine;-a-Corkscrew-and-a-Plate-of-Biscuits-on-a-Tray.html
Inspired by Edward Hopper’s “Sun in an Empty Room”
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/interior/hopper.sun-empty-room.small.jpg
Even if I`m much too late and sadly someone already had the same idea, I would like to post my result. I didn`t have any time at the weekend so took this morning and after 2-3 hours I had this result.
Rendered in cycles, post in PS. Actually I didn`t want the paint effect, but it came out like this just with the reduce noise and sharpen filter:-)
Here my try, its a model of a robot based on Eric Joyner paint.
Original ref picture:
ericjoyner.com/wp-content/gallery/2008-gallery_1/detained.jpg
Here my try, its a robot model based on a Eric Joyner paint.
Ref:
ericjoyner.com /wp-content/gallery/2008-gallery_1/detained.jpg
another render from the scene.
now on hd and with more contrast colors and activated legs.
“Here my try, its a robot model based on a Eric Joyner paint.
Ref:
ericjoyner.com /wp-content/gallery/2008-gallery_1/detained.jpg”
The winner has been announced:
http://www.blendernation.com/2014/03/31/weekend-contest-winner-relativity/
Enjoy!
By the way, I think some of the entries here would be really interesting to watch in full 3D on a site like Sketchfab or P3d.in – being able to look around could give a whole new meaning to these paintings. Who wants to give it a try?