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High Resolution
Art - From past to present
written by Kyo[Acid/Fire]
(12/28/1997)
The medium known as High Resolution Art, or Hirez
for short has been a slowly gaining art form since the beginning
of the scene. Hirez as an art form hasn't been around forever, but
it was started in the old Amiga days, when demo scene members drew
pixel by pixel on their am500's. It hadn't yet touched the art scene
as we know it, of course the art scene hadn't been around back in
the "good 'ol days." That is until one member of the scene popped
up, his name was Cat Spencer a.k.a. Catbones [phatboner ;)]
he probably revolutionized the Hirez medium, his combination tattoo/Photoshop
skills created the best pictures anyone had ever seen.
Since then, many new Photoshop whizzes have come and gone,
Visigoth, Borian to name a few. There is also Wildcat, Fathom, and
Tomppa, some of the newer Hirez members. I have mentioned mainly
freehand hirez artists, because I'm biased towards "freehanders."
Now what is freehand you ask? Well, the main format of
high resolution artwork is split into 3 categories, Freehand,
3D Rendering, and Photo Manipulation. Freehand is
the technique of using usually the airbrush tool, or paintbrush
tool in photoshop, and "freehanding" using either the mouse, or
a Wacom tablet, creating your own light, shadows and basically making
every aspect of the picture. 3D Rendering, I see as some what cheating,
you basically create a wire frame of an object, insert light coordinates
and surface skins, and with the click of a button your entire image
is computer drawn for you. Now I have seen some amazing stuff rendered
before but the drawbacks of Freehand vs. 3D Rendering is that when
you draw something freehand, anything can happen, stuff you haven't
imagined could 'accidentally' appear, and I think it takes more
talent and skill to draw in every single aspect of light and shadow.
3D Rendering is completely pre-laid out for you, nothing 'spontaneous'
happens, it all appears according to the computers calculations.
Last but not least is photo manipulation, its the act of taking
photo's and manipulating them in a way, creating a collage of filters,
photo's, layers and light.
Hi-resolution today isn't as looked down upon as it was 4 years
ago, but it still isn't seen as a "real" form of computer art,
for example, people deleting the *.jpg out of packs in order to
"just see the ANSI." I think that's bullshit. Today there is also
a channel #hirez which hosts some of the most talented hirez
artists of the scene today. It has become a place where some of
the more intimidating members of Acid, Ice and Fire can converse
at ease with some of the smaller groups out there. A place to "kick
back, relax and take your shoes off" Sometimes even a non-hirez
member comes wandering in, and we welcome them with open arms. So
check out #hirez, and see where the future of high resolution art
has brought us.
(#hirez)19:49<Cthulu> so by wearing makeup, they're
subconsciously turning us on by looking like they're orgasming all
the time.
Any questions, comments, can be directed to kyo@lava.net,
any flames, mail bombs, hate mail, chain letters can be directed
to dngrmouse@acheron.org
;) Check out #hirez, the nicest channel in all the world.
Examples of current vga work can be seen at the following URL's,
Acid Productions [http://www.acid.org]
:: Ice Productions [http://www.ice.org]
:: Fire Productions [http://www.fireweb.org]
No pygmy monkeys were hurt in the making of this article,
© 1997 All Rights Reserve. December 28th, 1997
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