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Is this art?

Hi everyone, I recently found the Newgrounds site and was amazing at the huge amount of content here and also you have an art portal! The art I create is not traditional paper/pen or even 3dmax/maya but art created using a 3D game engine by ID software called Quake3. This is a hobby thing that I enjoy in my free time and have been doing for years. I always try to create stuff that is visually interesting and my work (full details can be found on website) is well known through Q3 communities for that quality.

The editor called GTKRadiant is a complex monster of a program that is hard to use and not very friendly but it is something I know and enjoy using. Here is some screenshots of the editor and how it looks:

Editor (All windows) – Small and Large.

Editor with different axis viewpoint (similiar to 3dmax) – Small and Large.

My latest map/level was created from scratch and was inspired by my recent holiday in Barcelona where I found Gaudi who created amazing organic stuff. I have photos of on my personal site if anyone is interested and it was used as inspiration for my current project.

I wanted to create something that was very much mood/style art driven and with odd upward angles from basic materials (wood/stone/metal) The 3D engine has some basic metal/stone but no wood so I used some textures of my own. I could have created all of my own textures but I wanted to concentrate on architecture more so used some existing bumets that came with the engine. I posted some final screenshots of what I created here and got good reviews and votes. Here is some final/editor views of those images I posted.

Image 1 – Final and Editor

Image 2 – Final and Editor

The editor views show the 3D shapes that were used to create the scene but the process does not stop there. The map has to be lit (lights placed and set to correct values), sealed up and material/texture shaders created. Once all the engine specific stuff has been done the map has to be compiled with a command line utility. Once all the technical stuff has been done the level is finally ready to walk around and enjoy. I picked several good viewpoints and then uploaded them to this site for people to enjoy.

After a crazy long rambling by me on the process of how I created my artwork, why this post? well I recently had all my artwork deleted and told ‘posting images in the portal that are created with an application that does all of the work’ and thou I was annoyed by the statement I just wanted to try and show this is not the case. The editor is blank when you start it, there is nothing, you have to build all the walls, supports, tweak the lights, align the textures yourself. The editor is simple a tool much like 3dmax.

I would like to post my artwork to this site but if it is not considered art then ok cool, I can accept that and move on. So as the title says … Is what I do art? Does it look good? Do you believe I created this myself? If any mod is reading this, please let me know if I can have my art stuff re-posted or not.

If you want further information on me or my other work then please check my personal site.

Thanks for your time

Simonoc