neudaiz' art thread ✧

[neudaiz]

I really love the art thread idea, so I decided to make one as kind of a running repository of my work. I'll post some old stuff here and some new stuff too and talk about my processes. Hope you enjoy!! 💙🏙️

 

[neudaiz]

Wanted to start off my posting some of my earliest artworks in the style from 2022.
I was making art at the time almost exclusively in Touchdesigner and then doing compositing in Clip Studio Paint. Admittedly not the best program for this but I still use it out of a combination between stubbornness and a general attitude of dragging my feet with regards to switching up my workflow (even if ultimately that would benefit me).

The above was an attempt at a faux-interface for some kind of music player system. The spiky ball on the right was based on a very basic touchdesigner visualizer and would pulse to the beat of the music- I never bothered to render out an animated version unfortunately.


This was an experiment where I was trying to push the limits of the basic materials functionality in touchdesigner. I found out how to make shapes that look a bit more crystalline and ran with making one that was as colourful and dynamic looking as possible. The background is one of my first jwildfire renders.

The aboce is probably my fav in this whole series of "touchdesigner metalheart" from before I learned blender. The form was inspired by a bird of paradise flower and the theme of the piece was intended to be moving on and making your own life after undergoing traumatic events- something that was very poignant for me at the time.



Final piece for this series- I just wanted to make something with cyan and purple lol.

Even though these artworks are a few years old now, I really wanted to give them a place in my gallery! I think they show a pretty important step in my evolution towards my current art style and I also just love showing off that touchdesigner can actually do some very cool things.

 

[neudaiz]

The latter end of 2022 was a weird transitional period for my art where I realized I wanted to make more stuff but was kind of hitting a wall but I still have some stuff from that time I want to share because I think it shows an interesting shift!

This one's pretty minimal but I still want to share it because I think it's cute, I have Feelings about how people use the words "frutiger aero" these days but before it popped off in the way it has, this was my attempt at trying to mimic the feelings I get from wallpapers etc in that style. I wanted it to be light and airy, and made it half blue and half "blurple" because I couldn't decide which vibe I wanted to stick to more. I never finished it, but I still think it's nice.

This was a collab with my friend articution for artbyform's all nighter 7 event! I had always wanted to try allnight but was anxious so we teamed up. He did the logo typography and we brainstormed the general direction together, while I made and composited the renders and "UI elements" you see here. It's guava flavoured, we decided this. A few music artists reached out and asked if they could use this as a cover art for their tracks they made, which meant a lot to me!


This was my first attempt at artwork inspired by the "vectorheart" style/movement, like the two above this was also a form made in touchdesigner and I attempted to give it more of a flat shaded, vector inspired look. It's messy, I fixed none of the clipping, and it's far from my best, but I can't help but feel a warmth towards it anyways because it was the start of a lot more experiments in this style.


This one's a bit different and it's significant because... this was the first ever render I made using Blender! It was created for the art week events we were hosting in the Hypertrance discord server at the time. I was having trouble getting something going that I felt fit the theme and my girlfriend suggested I give B;ender a try and walked me through some basics. Honestly, I think it turned out pretty awesome. I also don't think I'll ever get tired of sky motifs.

 

[neudaiz]

Is this weird? Is me posting art this old weird? I'm not sure. I just really like the idea of having a gallery for this stuff and talking about my progression LOL so if anyone in this void is looking at my spam then hi!!! thanks!!

here's a few more pics from after I started to use Blender and get in the flow of it. There are scraps upon scraps upon scraps from this time period, but these are some of my favs:


I created the above artwork as a celebration of the release of Hypertrance Vol. 2. That compilation was a pretty big deal to me because it was my first experience with contributing motion graphics/visuals to a major project. If you're here, you should certainly check out my visuals for Twilight and Wait for Me (collab with nuphory) as I am very very proud of them to this day. More motion projects in future? It's more likely than you think.

Not a lot to say on this one, just wanted to make a cool metalheart-adjacent artwork! I also wanted to make it blue because if it's not evident enough by now I really really like blue. Blueeeee.

One more! A cool splashy shape (I was really into smoothed out remeshed stuff in 2023 when I made this and the previous artwork) and a background inspired by vectorheart artworks I'd been looking at. The text was a fun little venting/catharsis exercise about past relationships. I felt giving myself room to be a little edgy suited the black and red scheme and sharp edges/splattery look well. I love to get a bit messy with it.

After this point I started working in 4k more so the files are a bit big. I'll start spacing out my posts from here and giving the individual artworks room to breathe from here on out. I'll also have to make versions that aren't too big to upload so there's that. If you're here then thanks for looking at these!