Category: 3D

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

**Pick Me Up and Don't Ever Put Me Down, 3D, Animation, Simulations, Unity 3D

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

Starships

3D, 3D Models, Film, Sci-Fi, Space, Star Wars

The making of Starship – Live! 24/7 SpaceX Boca Chica Complex

and Starships of the mind too.
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…Love spaceships and still spend a lot of time thinking of ships, 3d modeling them, very partial about the Mars rovers. Still think Rama would be a great movie and one of the adventures that kept me on the edge of my seat every time I re-read the books. The creative space starships occupy is a strange one, lots of creative people have taken on spaceships themes, like Asimov, George, Kubrick, Clarke, on the other hand also out there real scientists who build nasa rovers.
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It seems it is bizarre I spent most of my life being terrified of flying. Actually there was a space of about three years when i could not get on a plane and a wing tip would throw me into a tailspin but we don’t wanna talk about this do we.

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The Heart of Gold is still my favorite.
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There was a strange tree in a hard science fiction novel where the tree had to be stoked with fires to fly through a universe very dense and with strange gravity. The novel was called Raft. Once i made a pen and ink drawing about it i think.
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Rama has been dominating my imagination for the longest time. Also the Raman Node from the later Rama books, the later books were filled with incredible ships of various sizes and purpose taking deep voyages and carrying many species to unknown destinations. It blows my mind until this day when i need to be shopping, probably, by what I think advertisers think of me, for handbags.
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The moment where Rama meets the Node and many exciting things happen and we meet Raman intelligence. It too blows my mind.

“..The Rama spacecraft rendezvous with another Node, an enormous tetrahedron near the star Tau Ceti, designed to research any intelligent life capable of spaceflight. ..”
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With Star Destroyers coming close second for intimidation factor and making us prickly with anticipation when entering the big screen and gliding over our heads.

 

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Star Destroyers size comparison
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Super Star Destroyer Executor complete scene. It is as badass as they come.

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Starships Size comparison
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Rama from Rendezvous with Rama would have been a good addition ( 50-kilometre /31 mile cylindrical alien starship ). Also one of my favorite ships ever. Wish Ridley would have undertaken Rendezvous with Rama and the Rama franchise.

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Chart of all the spaceships to scale
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Chart of all the spaceships to scale

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Star Wars Spaceship Sounds

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A Bit More from Jodorowsky’s Dune Starships
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Jodorowsky's Dune Ship Concept art

 

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Jodorowsky's Dune Ship Concept art

 

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Jodorowsky's Dune Spacecraft Concept Art

 

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Okay – more Star Wars:
Behind the Scenes of Star Wars: The Original Trilogy ILM Special Effects Makers.
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and the goodies with the man.
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Here are my favorite Star Wars spaceships. I made them.

A bunch of the here, Awing, BlockadeRunner, Bwing, Dropship, ImperialShuttle, RebelTransport, Geonosian battlecruiser, SnowSpeeder, TieBomber, TieSaber, Xwing:

X-Wing:

 

Snowspeeder. Remember when Luke brought down an Imperial armada.. with a cable?

 

 

Blue A-wing:

Red A-wing:

A bunch of the here, including an AT-AT.AT-AT is not a ship but I love it nevertheless, I am kind of obsessed with it:

Millennium Falcon:

Imperial Shuttle:

B-wing:

Someone remade Star Wars: Podracer… in Unreal Engine 4 (Free Download) – isn’t this freaking Awesome !

**Pick Me Up and Don't Ever Put Me Down, *Seriously, 3D, Simulations, Star Wars

 

this is the most awesome and greatest thing I have seen since bottled water. BTw never buy bottled water, just refill your water bottle at the fountain, ok?

 

You can download the project and the exe and it works ( the download link is on the youtube channel ). Just played it with my student and it was a blast.