3D-art of Johan Framhout

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3D-art is an art form made with the computer. As oil paint, watercolour or pastel are mediums to the artist, so are graphic computer programs. A 3D can be made with a 3D-program, or more then one program and for instance mixed in a 2D-program (or imported from one program to another). The centre program in the 3D work of Johan Framhout is Bryce. You can find more explanation about Bryce as well as other 3D-programs on the page 'about 3D'. The artist also uses other programs and even there often is some hand work, done with the electronic drawing tablet. Also watch my film on youtube. His works are also to visit on the site Renderosity under the pseudonym 'moat' en on DeviantArt as 'nahojis'. 3D-art is equivalent to other art as the artist wants to prove with his work as well with his blog 'Virtual Museum', in which he searches some beautiful art work on internet, no matter if they are hand made or digital.

Some words about my work

Steam Wagon

Fascinated by steam wagons, I made one in 3D and placed it on another planet. I chose one of the earliest forms of steam cars, with the vertical cylinder, because I like the form. Nevertheless I gave the cabin a more modern look. The form of the vegetable mountains is made in Zbrush and imported in Bryce. With Photoshop after work.

Atlantis and Tree Temple

I recently evolved to a combination of photo manipulation, 3D constructions and 2D-work. I recently discovered this technique is also called matte-painting. On the page collages there are already a few older works made by this method: 'Garuda' and 'Between Heaven and Earth'. For my new work there is a lot more of freehand painting, with the drawing tablet. It is often more 'depainting', adding and gumming, and cloning. Although 3D constructions are still important. For the work 'Atlantis' the many towers, the mountains, stones and the sea where made in Bryce. For the work
'Tree Temple' the trees where made in Zbrush, the windows in Bryce. This way of working gives me a lot of pleasure, since each method works different, as a result the making of is very varied.

Full of life

One can see it as a composition of abstract forms. It can also be seen as an alien form of life on a distant planet, under water or on land. There are so many planets on the universe, it has to be full of life, hence the title. So if we destroy nature on our planet it will be the end of humanity, but surely not of life. Programs used: Bryce, Zbrush, Incendia, Meshlab, Photoshop

Crystal and Glass

The work is made with Photoshop, Incendia, Meshlab and Bryce. Made for New Year 2012. It is meant to be abstract, but if you see Christmas tree decoration in it, that’s alright too. This work was added in Deviantart by 145 people to their favorites within a week, although I'm not well known there.

Clear Awake

On a night I awoke and couldn’t sleep for a couple of hours. This scene came up, and how I had to make it. So I did. Is it surrealism? Those forms of life could exist somewhere in our enormous universe. Made in Bryce, with imported objects from Zbrush and the Incendia timestar.

Still Life with Vases, Pots, Perfume Bottles and a drinking horn

A composition of the forms I love so much, called sweep profiles in Zbrush. I am not a vase collector, it is more a composition of those 3D-forms, transformed in familiar objects. With one human figure and one spiral. I was surprised to find so many drinking horns on the internet, none of them was a spiral. So I choose the spiral because of my love for spiral forms.

The three Sun Towers

Made in Bryce. Some objects I made first in Zbrush and exported. Other objects are terrains or lattices. Inspired by Gaudi and also by westafrican mud built architecture. But I created my own architecture after all.

Voyage to afterlife 

Inspired by Hades, a kind of ceremonial ship bring the souls of the dead to the island of transformation. The big wheel is driven by hand, a mechanical system that have proved to work better then the oars.

A Temple for Gaia 

Because she deserves it. She gives us so much and what do we do with her? Made with Bryce, Corelpainter, Zbrush, Poser and Photoshop. The walls are covered with photo collages I made and transformed into paintings. In Bryce they where put on the walls.

Source of life

A sphere with life energy turns stone statues into living beings. On the right a mosaic of the ancient priests with their holy flower. Made with Bryce, Zbrush, Poser people, Photoshop and Correlpainter (mosaic maker).

Joy of Being, Joy of Striving 

Out of rigid form, man frees himself and become more flexible beings (at least I hope, some of us stay petrified). Men and women now find each other searching their way in life. Two poles are important: striving to develop and being totally in the moment. We cannot do them simultaneously, but we need to accomplish them both.

ShellU4getME?

An Incendia render and experimenting with textures. I wrote a poem that belongs to this work.

- ShellU4getME?

Shall you forget me
When I am in the whirling winds
Making leaves to dance
When I am a name to remember for a while
One of the billion times billion stars
So far away from your concerns
Shall you forget me
When I am sparkling dusk
A voice in the universe
Among the perfect shells on lonely beaches
Hidden in a mad turmoil, this fancy fair
Camouflated in the mass of being
unimportant, far below the top
Shall you remember my work
My voice, my laughter
Keep a glance of my being
Or shall you forget me
And leave me together with
Your forgotten self?

The Ruin and the Alignment 

I wanted to create a mysterious atmosphere, with combining menhirs with gothic architecture. With memories of Karnac in Brittany, as well as ruins like Villers-La-Ville in Belgium.

Indigo world

When the sky is indigo, the people hurry to the feast of solstice. Made in Bryce with some finishing work in Photoshop. Figures from Poser and hand painted. I wanted a city made of the fundamental shapes of Bryce: cubes, cones, some spheres and double pyramids…  This would-be world could exist on earth or elsewhere, or in the future, why not?

Diabolo

I had to split the work in Bryce because of too many bodies. I wrote a poem that belongs to this work.

- Diabolo

On the top of the world
The diabolo player dances
He laughs with the risk he takes
And that is why
He keeps balance
He knows: life is a play
In beauty and danger
He and only he controls the string
Keeps the magic
With the world at his feet

The Choice

Born out of meditation. Energy, solidified to form, basic shapes, the root of all life forms. Point of encounter between heaven and earth. But what really matters is what you see in it.

Bathroom

It started from an idea of a city in the style of Gaudi, all buildings covered with mosaic, to which I already made the works Homage to Gaudi, Enjoying early sunrise and interior in GC. Here another interior.

Sculptured mountains

All mountain sculptures are made of terrains and lattices in Bryce, with a finishing touch in Photoshop.

Coming home
With a lot of detailed work: the symmetrical terrains, the buildings, the non-existing fruits… The title came afterwards: when I looked at my work I really had the feeling I was familiar with this landscape in some way and it felt like coming home.

Woman resting on a sofa

On one of those illness days I had to stand up from bed, it was not easy. When I laid me down again, I suddenly saw this picture in a few seconds clearly before my eyes. I tried to make it exactly like I had it seen and I succeeded quite well. The female body is suggested by glass balls.
This work is made entirely in Bryce. It is often strange how materials evolve in Bryce: the walls got their colour from the surrounding atmosphere and the floor tiles were coloured and got their brightness from the colour of the sun. For this result, experimenting was more important as thinking.

The 17th temple of Damanhur

In 2010 my partner and I visited the underground temples of Damanhur. I was informed by a Renderocity artist but I forgot who. They are quite ambitious there and want to add more temples and even a cathedral in the future. I made an imaginary new temple with the same characteristics: paintings on the walls, stained glass ceilings, carved pillars, mosaic floors, the glass sphere and my own kind of scripture. If you want to see more of Damanhur, visit my photography pages and choose Cinque Terre (which is in the neighbourhood), it's on the pages 2 and 3 (or just use this link). It's a place all artists must have seen at least once in their life, my opinion.

Vertical labyrinth

Can be seen as architecture,  surrealism, fantasy or even abstract. It is inspired by one of my own works I made forty years ago, in graphite. It is now made in Bryce.

Garden of earthly delight

Inspired by the work of the old Flemish painter Jeroen Bosch, and even some scenes are adapted, others are added. I kept some of the characteristics: the choice of colours, the cloning of the people (four types), only organic constructions, normal proportions but with exceptions. I added some other winks to artists. Do you find 'le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'?

Water cathedral

My first very complex work made entirely in Bryce.In this work there are thousands of bodies and many symmetrical lattices.It was the first time I was cofronted with the limitations of the program. Therefore I made this work in parts; the left and the right side are rendered on their own and placed as a 2D in the final composition. For the tunnel I had to redeem the number of pillars. Here I could not add a 2D because then I got a double reflexion in the water! The work is inspired by a big sepia graphite drawing I made when I was young, I made some works with gothic labyrinths, as if gothic architecture would be something that grows.