Sheets draped the landscape. Bleached white by the nine minor suns. Though the valley was still lush, the charred portal flickered in its midst. Our suits would protect us from the chipmunk hoards that burrowed near it but we would have to siphon off half of the blood stores to keep them from gnawing away at these links. Aliya Chen – has the knack for putting you in a dreamlike state in her concepts that capture dragons, battles, memories and pictuesque landscapes. Keisuke Teshima – Painting dragons in one stroke. Lil’ glitter. fx_mania – Instagram follow of the week. Not quite White walkers, but his Cinema 4D real life viz FX…

Back in October 2018, Adobe announced the tentatively titled “Project Gemini” – their latest mobile app made specifically for drawing and painting. Using what they learned from previous creative software endeavors—such as Photoshop’s brush tools and engine—Project Gemini focuses on adding even more painting tools including watercolor and live oil brushes to a stripped-down interface capable of producing stunning pieces of digital artwork in the hands of a talented artist. Six months later and Adobe has finally released a beta version of the app to a select few artists as well as at a preview event in the New York MoCCA Arts Festival. According to early tester Dami Lee, the…

Swedish designer Love Hulténn is no stranger to video game nostalgia. After making countless homages such as a handmade arcade wall cabinet and a glass-encased Nintendo console shrine, one can only wonder how Hultén could top his penchant for the machines of yesteryear. Enter the Yesterday Vision—his latest handmade wooden enclosure built to play emulated video games. From the surface, the Yesterday Vision looks like an old-timey T.V. your grandparents would use to watch reruns of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Yet, the unit features a full 19-inch 4:3 HD screen with full-range loudspeakers and a built-in Raspberry Pi computer to play emulated games for the NES, SNES, SEGA…

Purchasing a traditional home may be physical proof that you’ve officially made it as an adult. Making a custom “micro-home” or heated backyard workshop, however, may be physical proof of your dedication to relatively complex weekend projects. During the winter months of 2014, Jim Howard took to his backyard and decided to build his own 10-foot x 14-foot miniature house, cabin, or workshed (he hasn’t decided on what to call it yet). It took him less than a week to build the structure at the affordable cost of roughly $2,000 for the wood and other materials needed to build it. The video above is a compilation of still images Jim…

ZBrush 2019 is Pixologic’s latest iteration of their popular digital sculpting software. From the new Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) system to a completely revised folder organization system, this update to the popular all-in-one digital sculpting solution has more new toys to tinker with than you can shake a digital pen at. Let’s take a look. The most significant update in this release—at least, for many artists out there—is the introduction of Non-Photorealistic Rendering. While 3D models are traditionally rendered with a photorealistic appearance, this new system provides users with a hand-drawn 2D style for their models—reminiscent pages taken straight out of a sketchbook. The release also takes advantage of Pixologic’s revamped…

Get that stretch out of your system with this week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist. It’s fashioned up, ready to make you pull your shoulder blades back and knock out another week of meaningful work while you bob your head to the beat. Whether you’re in the shop milling aluminum, sketching the latest product prototypes or modeling up a 3D storm, consider these tracks as a tool for your process. This week on SolidSmack Radio we’ll fire things off with “Pass The Hours” from MorMor before jumping into tracks from Cut Copy, Washed Out, Sorry, Spaceface, and others before wrapping up with “Viktor Borgia” from the legendary Stephen Malkmus. Ready? Let’s…