Author: Dimmerlight studios

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

longer version video https://www.youtube.com/L-SR0SZWzP4

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Hands Times Square now has its own page with video stills and the full version of the animation https://www.mirenarhee.com/hands-times-square-animation.

Watch a high resolution mp4 here:

Hands Times Square is dedicated to New York City and its people – the city I love, the city which inspires me, the city which paints on the sidewalks for no reason at all, the city that loves art and artists, the city where everyone is so different yet we live in peace.

Hands Times Square Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, dimensions variable, 2020. Created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee.

Story as told by the artist

Hands Times Square or as originally named – Times Square NYE 2020 – is an animation I created for Times Square Alliance and a part of a bigger Hands Scape’s project that involves New York City – it is only appropriate as New York inspires me and was the reason I do hands in the first place, it is a New York thing…

I spent new Years Eve here on Times Square ( hey it’s 2020, spent 2000 in Chicago, 2010 in San Francisco.. so time for a one of a lifetime experience ). I was amazed at how beautiful and exciting it was to share it with a million others. I learned quite a few things while there, one of them was how the NYPD does crowd control. It is quite fascinating and a science. Have you ever asked yourself why a million people running around like mad to get a glimpse of “the ball” don’t trample and stampede each other to death? Crowd control, it is good trust me – once I saw people running towards televisions I realized it would be easy to die under the heels of a half million tourists. This project is the evolution of this whole thread of thoughts and the expression of overwhelming number of exploding colored confetti.

About

This animation is also inspired by New Year’s Eve 2020 at the center of the World – Times Square. Where at midnight fireworks of Confetti explode into a colorful supernova at the stroke of midnight. Times Square is a supernova of exciting imagery, of people and movement, and lights and colors. People from all over the world, ages, walks of life and languages, come here to mingle in this Babylonian Square and bask in its energy. In this animation colorful hands draw extraordinary three-dimensional shapes. As they move through space they create flowing, complex structures of hand trails. The hands travel in a series of gestures creating abstract shapes. The hands coalesce into an ephemeral three-dimensional Times Square made of beaming hands. The camera floats through the beaming hands of Times Square and hands fireworks explode and saturate the space with color.

Statement

This animation is inspired by my own experience spending New Year’s Eve 2020 on Times Square, the Confetti, excitement and energy that fills the space. New York city has always been an endless animation, with hands of various sizes, colors and shapes moving and gesturing endlessly in public and private spaces in the city. It is literally a stream of hands of all kinds. This series of ephemeral hands structures arose from the realization that during simple and mundane daily activity, like holding onto the rails in the subway, the hands draw extraordinary three-dimensional shapes. As they move through space they create flowing, complex structures of hand trails – this body of work explores these ephemeral constructs. The hands are based on paintings of hands, scanned, animated and simulated on the computer. My own hands serve as the models and main building element of my work because they are present and available, constantly traversing and dominating my personal space.

 

Hands Times Square Video Stills

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

Hands Times Square – Animation and Simulation with hands drawings in a digital Times Square Landscape, created by American Contemporary Artist Mirena Rhee and dedicated to New York City

BB-8 with R2-D2

Star Wars BB-8 3D Model – your favorite BB-8 from The Force Awakens, together with R2-D2. Clean, efficient and modeled to the highest polygon modeling standards. Features a detachable hatch and a detailed control panel underneath.
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 Star Wars BB-8 3D Model - your favorite BB-8 from The Force Awakens
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Tris: 346200
Polys:184909
Verts:180684

Star Wars BB-8 3D Model. Clean, efficient and modeled to the highest polygon modeling standards. Features a detachable hatch and a detailed control panel underneath. *Bonus Download R2-D2 3D model, including five 4K ( 4096 x 4096 ) texture maps.
BB-8 is a High Poly 3D Model and includes 6 parts: body, antenna, head, camera lenses and detachable hatch. Includes 12 high resolution 4K ( 4096 x 4096 ) texture maps – 6 for the Body and 6 for theaa Head:

– 2 Diffuse
– 2 Normal
– 2 Specular
– 2 Illumination
– 2 Reflection
– 2 Ambient Occlusion

BB-8 has:
– Tris: 346200
– Polys:184909
– Verts:180684
– One non-overlapping UV set.

*Bonus Download R2-D2 3D model with five 4K texture maps:
– 1 Color
– 1 Normal
– 1 Specular
– 1 Illumination
– 1 Reflection

R2-D2 has 41208 tris and 21551 verts.
No plugins necessary to open files. Available formats:
– Maya 2012
– Max 2012
– FBX 2012
– OBJ 2012

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Price: $59
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Once your purchase is complete you will receive a download link. Email me if you have any questions. Back to top.

New X-wing with R2-D2

Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter 3D Model with foldable S-foils and a R2-D2.

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Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter 3D Model with foldable S-foils
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Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter with foldable S-foils, originally modeled in Maya. This is a canon model based on the physical ILM models and sets. *Bonus Download R2-D2 3D model, including five 4K texture maps.

Clean, efficient and modeled to the highest polygon modeling standards. Polygon count is in tris. Model has 6 parts – body, window, S-foils, and unwrapped, non-overlapping UV’s.

Polygons: 69,674
Vertices: 39,731

X-wing Includes 6 detailed 4K (4096 x 4096 ) TGA texture maps:
– 1 Color
– 1 Normal
– 1 Specular
– 1 Illumination
– 1 Reflection
– 1 AO

*Bonus Download R2-D2 3D model with five 4K texture maps:
– 1 Color
– 1 Normal
– 1 Specular
– 1 Illumination
– 1 Reflection

R2-D2 has 41208 tris and 21551 verts.

No plugins necessary to open files. Available formats:
– Maya 2012
– Max 2012
– FBX 2012
– OBJ

Note on animating the S-foils: the correct angle for fully deployed is 16 degrees.

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Price: $89
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Once your purchase is complete you will receive a download link. Email me if you have any questions. Back to top.