J. Craig Tompkins

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  • Library (WIP)

    Library (WIP)

  • XGen Play

    XGen Play

    These renders are experiments playing with XGen and assigning a per instance color based on an image map. In the case of these renders, a mix of photographs were used. The forms multiplied here are a posable figure from a popular modular toy and a simple tree branch.

  • The Mouldering Futurama

    The Mouldering Futurama

    The Futurama series examines future visions from the past that have shaped our present conditions. One such vision, the 1939 GM Futurama, was an integral part of selling the public on the U.S. highway system and the automobile as a mode of transportation. Consequently, this vision also cemented reliance on oil. The Futurama showed the…

  • Abstract Renders

    Abstract Renders

    Experiments don’t always go to plan. These renders are early attempts to work with images and volume displacement that were ultimately failures in the best way possible.

  • Pixel Diving

    Pixel Diving

    Pixel diving is the act of superresolution, of quietly saying “enhance” as you delve ever deeper into the folds of a digital image. In the process a microcosm reveals itself. Strange deviations and textures appear from the lowest of resolutions. As the dive goes ever deeper, structures and forms appear as if hallucinated into being…

  • Scan Cam

    Scan Cam

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  • Synth Plankton

    Synth Plankton

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