Solvent Image

Storm 2025

Eventually that single glow blossomed to become a series of lights high over the water... until we reached the foot of the towering steel monopod.
“I’m just trying to imagine the bodies and blood it took to make this place, she replied. What it took to keep these crooks out here so long. Them, and the generations that preceded them.”
- Tim Winton, Juice

Disagreement

Sometimes all the space in the world isn't enough

More studies in 3d as I aim for photorealism. As a side note these prescribed oils have been a life changer for me, allowing me to exist more stably in my day to day life.
Made 100% in Cinema4D and OTOY Octane with some post in Adobe Photoshop

Relic Store 2024.

I wanted to try and learn how to insert 3D assets into a perspective, so I took this random photo of Long Phi Mixed Business in Sydney, expanded it with gen fill and then started building the rest of the scene in Cinema4D with KitBash3D assets. The idea was a store that had held out against the dystopia for a long time and was now considered by the city as a "relic store"
- a place of interest that was protected by law.

Together at last 🍦🧇🍪

I had so much fun helping bring this concept together with the amazing people over at Type Pixel for Baskin and Robbins! 🍨

The Ronin's Last

Created using Cinema4D and Adobe Photoshop with assets created in MidJourney heavily edited with adobe stock.
Been watching the amazing Sh**un and getting inspired plus the quiet time after busy time is a good time to get creative again. Really fun to just mull over and play with something outside of a deadline.

Receipts added!

AI AI AI
I know it's everywhere and everyone is going on about it. It's been a weird year so far, dealing with the looming presence. It's output is both boring and utterly fascinating, it's a useful tool that I use everyday now in retouching, but it's also a huge unknown. I'm losing sleep over it sometimes and I'm saving time at others. The people that create it barely understand the capabilities so really I don't anyone knows what will happen.
I want to know though, and it's something that has been talked about verbatim, do the images and writing capture the x factor of human emotion? As any artist or ad person knows this is the most important part. I'm not sure. At least not yet, maybe next week.
Anyway here are some photos I took in Bankstown, with talent added with Photoshop gen fill.
Have a great weekend

Personal projects seem harder and harder to get across the line these days - your own standards improve, your work takes priority, a million things get in the way. This image was created for an incredible exhibition at Netherworld here in Brisbane, celebrating the work of FromSoftware（フロム・ソフトウェア） souls series. I wanted to capture the calm that these games give me, the quiet reflection and teachings we can take from their gameplay and inherent philosophy. This piece was printed big and framed beautifully and marks my first sold physical artwork at an exhibition. Thank you to whoever it was that purchased it immediately on opening night, I am forever grateful. Thank you to Jon Weber for putting on the show, and to Tim Grove for his timeless patience in teaching me 3d. The image was created first in Cinema 4d, then completed in with assets from stock and Midjourney AI

Toyota Gazoo Racing

oh what a feeling!

This was one hell of a composite, thanks to Damien Bredberg for bringing me on to wrangle this epic together. Damien is an expert at these images and really made it a breeze to work with something as complex as this.
Special thank you to these guys, without which something like this can never happen
Corey John Schweikert
Caleb Gibson
Ariana Camera
Teigan Fortnum
Sue Porrett

And of course Thepinkflamingo!