Archive | November, 2009

Fractal flames in Apophysis

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Vanessa V. Medeiros in Sketchbook

Decided to try to render some Apophysis fractal flames that I made over the last couple of years. Started with this one, Broken, as I really love the intricate details. To date, this is one of my favorite styles for flame fractals.
It came out really nice, but Apophysis renders are way too slow. Ah, how [...]

Deep Zoom

Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Vanessa V. Medeiros in Deep Zoom

After reading this blog post about the lack of zoomable images in the fractal art world, I decided to give it a try. Luckily, I have most of my works rendered at very large dimensions (10800 pixels and up), so it was just a matter of finding the right zooming applet. You can see my [...]

Work in Progress #1

Posted on 08. Nov, 2009 by Vanessa V. Medeiros in Sketchbook, Workflow

This is one of the new fractals that I have been working on lately, part of a spiral inspired series. It’s temporarily titled “Star“. Can you guess why? I know, not a really original title for now!
Anyway, the structure (shapes, forms…) is done as well as the basic colors. The shading (that’s the depth and [...]

A Fractal is Born

Posted on 01. Nov, 2009 by Vanessa V. Medeiros in Tutorial, Workflow

A small time-lapse video showing how I generally create my fractal artwork in Ultra Fractal and post-process it in Photoshop. The song playing is “Rising” from The Yoshida Brothers.