r/retrocgi

Shared this a few days ago here as an image here's the full animation. This was my first animation so i was keeping it simple. Audio from « Earth minutes » from James ferraro

All using default textures, the first 4 these are pictures from an animations I made (will share at some point). I have been sharing these on tiktok and wanted to post my progress here

I mean i need to do deslop an ai video to be human slop (like Joshua and The Promised Land.)

So here's the photos. (As reference.)

I made it with povray using a noise map generated by geomorph. I made the sky in gimp and I converted all the colours to go with my palette in Aseprite.

After spending some time working as a traditional painter/illustrator I picked up Nomad sculpt for the first time about 18 months ago.

I still consider myself a 2D artist as everything I sculpt tends to serve the final flat artwork. But there's something about the old 3D vibe that puts me in a good creative headspace.

It's like my brain gets rolled back to being a creative 13-year-old again. Any thoughts of academia, paid work, or seeking validation seem to melt away because I'm too busy trying to figure out the software and getting lost in the process of creating stuff with no real end-goal (I guess just like the young teenage me would do). I owe a lot to retro CGI for reminding me there's still a natural creative in there somewhere.