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  1. @phudoshinThat's really cool, I'm glad to see it working well for you! Great looking renders! @cruising for burgersTo be honest I know nothing about modular synths and drum machines (I just love the way they sound) so when I was attempting to replicate the original artwork, I found a generic synth image somewhere online that was a decent resolution which worked well to get the lighting right. I could probably re-engineer things with the images you and mcbpete provided (and thank you for doing so) but I'm not sure I have the time. If I do, I'll post it here. Also I forgot to mention that images should be set on a square canvas to work without stretching. If you take the higher res Buchla pic and stack it until it's a 1:1 resolution, you might be able to get something closer to the original artwork.
  2. @cruising for burgers I could be misunderstanding you - technically yes, you could get the original art. But you would need the original image, which I assume is a high res shot of Richard's gear that Weirdcore was able to obtain, and you would also need the correct texture coordinates in the geometry, which could be done if one studied the animated version and paid attention to how the textures move. So even if we had the original image, it would not replicate it exactly, I'd need to create another more accurate version and what I've done here is just a quick and dirty reconstruction. And I found that tiny box an interesting design decision. At first I thought it was to cover up where all of the edges meet perhaps because it looked unsavory without it, but I think it's there to give the artist more to mess around with. I purposefully made the tiny cube in mine to be darker than the rest of the image so it would work more universally with any texture people want while making the Aphex symbol stand out better, my own stylistic choice in this case.
  3. Absolutely, you can get those files from this thread. Or just go to the Google Drive folder with the files here.
  4. I wasn't originally planning on doing this, but I really like the album art for Blackbox Life Recorder and the more I looked at it the more I wanted to see if I could recreate it like I did with the Collapse artwork. I came up with something that I thought was half decent and I would be remiss if I did not share it with fellow fans in case at least one person might want to use it. Just like the Collapse template, I've made it so that you can upload any image that you want and it will automatically adhere to the 3d cube (just make sure the image is a square, otherwise it will be stretched). This template unfortunately uses the more resource-intensive rendering engine in order to mimic the lighting and shadows more closely, so your computer will chug along a bit as it renders. It shouldn't take any more than a few minutes unless you have a really old computer. If you have a laptop, the fans will most likely kick on quite loudly. The file is in the .zip attached and you can download Blender for free to use it. I've included a screenshot with instructions in the file. It's not completely foolproof for people who have never used Blender for modeling and rendering, but I've tried my best to make it as easy as possible for anyone to try it out. If you want to live preview the image before rendering, hold the Z button and slide up to Rendered in the viewport section with the cube in it. To switch back, hold the Z button and slide to the right to Solid. If you keep it on the Rendered screen for too long it will eat up resources, so I would do that only to see briefly what it looks like and then switch back to the Solid view. I've attached some test renders, one with a similar texture to the album art as well as others with different tones and colors just to see how they would look: aphex_blackbox_template.zip
  5. I don't mean to raise this topic back from the dead, but I received a couple of messages within the past year requesting access to the shared folder of artwork. I think the original link broke. For anyone who is still interested, you should be able to access the folder HERE. I may have mentioned it before but in case I didn't, printing these out and transferring them to plywood is a very cheap and easy way of displaying them physically. I did it years ago and can't remember the exact website I used for instructions but it was very similar to this method, although I do remember using cardstock and I did not flip the image upside down. If you have any trouble accessing these, just let me know. Cheers.
  6. Just finished a couple of new ones. Thanks for the comments, sloanster. I'm not going to include Richard's soundcloud username in case he changes it again, I'm trying to keep this artwork future-proof. And those 3d masks are stylin'. Love them. As always, grab the hi-res images and everything else here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B93UaJwz6MaNflQ1NVJTYUdQY0EtcjZZX0owRWpWWHp5WWx4ejlzcFB0NEZFWTRDN2lLakk&usp=sharing
  7. I updated my collection of redux vector art to include GAK, Melodies from Mars, Windowlicker, The Tuss, Syro, and CCAI. Based on previous posts I think some people are confused - these images are not meant to be in a grid, I just put them like that in the preview so you can see them all at once (these previews are crappy quality; not meant to be downloaded). Anyways, thanks for the feedback. I freaking love what people are posting on this thread. If I have time I'll try to do another all-inclusive piece. *** TLDR *** Don't download these crappy preview pics. You can get each individual image in high resolution at this link here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B93UaJwz6MaNflQ1NVJTYUdQY0EtcjZZX0owRWpWWHp5WWx4ejlzcFB0NEZFWTRDN2lLakk&usp=sharing
  8. Thanks, guys. For anyone interested, here's a single version with everything included. This is what I was originally going for. I realize it's a little chaotic, I was trying to reflect all that craziness when Mr. James was uploading his tracks. I might try to do a simpler version if I have time. I added three versions to the same link as before, two of which you can see in the low res preview images. Here's the link again just in case: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B93UaJwz6MaNflQ1NVJTYUdQY0EtcjZZX0owRWpWWHp5WWx4ejlzcFB0NEZFWTRDN2lLakk&usp=sharing
  9. I realize I'm a little late but I had an initial idea for artwork that took longer to create than I thought. Since a lot of these tracks sound like outtakes from previous albums I thought I would do kind of minimal redux versions of as much of Richard's discography as I could. This way you could assign the "redux" album art to tracks that sound like they're from a specific era, if that makes sense. I recreated main elements of his album art with vector graphics so they could be high quality and easily scalable. The attached image is just a preview of 9 pieces that I did. Right now there are 24 pictures all together, you can get them here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B93UaJwz6MaNflQ1NVJTYUdQY0EtcjZZX0owRWpWWHp5WWx4ejlzcFB0NEZFWTRDN2lLakk&authuser=0
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