SideTrip is a series of abstract, experimental paintings focused on two characters: Azure, a boy and Alex, the God of Hiding who travel in a lonely universe of everything and nothing. The two characters explore various worlds shaped by emotion, idea, and philosophy.
SideTrip is also an exploration into how we humans communicate with machine through art. Painting programs involved do utilize partially algorithmic "auto" painting which can be manipulated to perform unusual, impossible tasks perhaps humans can't entirely replicate. The end result is a mixture of manual work as well as computerized work. This mixture is the essence, and perhaps the future of how humans should face technology.
These are presented in no particular order. SideTrip does not necessarily have a continuous narrative instead has a discontinuous, time-skipping narrative which goes from the far ends of time to the beginning of life. Hence this gallery also is in no particular order.
The paintings rely on techniques such as using 3D programs to generate the scenery first, use algorithmic painting methods for unusual styles, and it uses layers and layers of post processing to establish atmosphere.
I began SideTrip as a short comic series which quickly expanded to becoming a large set of ideas I had. I unfortunately couldn't accomplish the comic, but began painting the scenery.
One of the earliest scenes in SideTrip was the Impossible City: a city where the whole existence is between two dimentions.
Making Of SideTrip
Part of SideTrip was intended to open the exploration to everybody. I personally record these and annotate them both to openly discuss SideTrip but also to help people understand the methods of creating things.
These documentations also help me understand my own flaws.
These documentations also help me understand my own flaws.
