The Scribbled Line Portraits of illustrator Ayaka Ito and programmer Randy Church began as a class assignment before the stunning digital photography innovation came to public attention at a Toronto FITC workshop.
The series showing shredded human bodies integrated 3D and programming for a project with a three-day deadline while the two were at the College of Imaging Arts & Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Ito and Church “put their models through the shredder” using a custom Flash drawing tool, HDR lighting, Cinema4D and Photoshop.
The project began as a class assignment and grew into a fully realized series which won an Adobe Design Achievement Award and has been featured in 3D World Magazine and Communication Arts Magazine.
A post from DesignBoom with more technical detail on the process, here.
NOTE: This is from the Art Junkie archives, 2012.
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This is an imaginative idea, I especially like the final piece where the human connects to the machine. It flows very well.
That’s a good point, about the connection to the machine. thank you
I really like the combination of the shredded and the solid or whole. :+)
Yes, quite the technique, isn’t it? Thanks for taking the time to leave your thoughts.
Eerie and awe inspiring.
A perfect word, eerie.
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These are unbelievable… I love them!!!
Can we
Is there a submission process for submitting art to caj?
thanks
cheers, michael
Stunning work. I love seeing innovations being pushed forward by new mediums. The minds at work here are amazing, so much more so being a collaboration!
Good point about the collaboration. The most striking thing to me is the short time frame for the innovation, given that it was a brief school assignment, but I gather they kept right on innovating afterward. Thanks for your comments.
creepy but cool!
Yes, another good description. Creepy is a fit, isn’t it? But man, what talent!
Reblogged this on manoftheword and commented:
for instants!
Thanks for the re-blog, appreciated
These are awesome…imagine them as sculpture! Very cool, thanks for sharing.
Right, as sculptures they would be incredible. Thanks for that.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome, glad you stopped by
Amazing! I cannot imagine how much work has gone into creating these!
I agree, and I’m also amazed by the creativity that must have gone into finding the right combination of technology to accomplish it.