The Spark (2005)

"Where do you get your ideas??" This is the question I've been asked more than any other over the years. I've created over a thousand different renders since I first started tinkering with computer graphics in the mid 90s. Some people think I'm more than one artist 😄 I don't know exactly where my ideas come from but the question has always intrigued me. When a good idea hits it's very much like a "spark" lighting a fuse. I feel like I need to get the idea out of my head as quickly as possible and the only way to do that is to make it real. With this piece I've tried to imagine what that first spark of inspiration might look like among our neural pathways. Modeled and rendered in Lightwave3D. The geometry was created using a plugin called "Gene" that allowed one to easily model organic branching structures.