BRAM VANHAEREN SHOWS OFF
THE #ANIWALL PROJECT
ARTHIVEONLINEGOESLIVE
AN ADOBE 25 UNDER 25 WINNER HAS NOW PUBLISHED
AN EXCITING NEW PORTRAITURE PROJECTTHE NEW ONLINE ART GALLERY RETAILER OPENS ITS ONLINE DOORS
At only 24 years old, Digital Artist Bram
Vanhaeren was estatic when he recently
learned he’d been selected for Adobe’s 25
under 25: a campaign launched to celebrate
Photoshop’s 25th anniversary where a search
was officially launched for the best creative
visual artists around the globe that were under
25 years old.
Originally from Antwerp in Belgium,
Vanhaeren has now been using Photoshop for
ten years. “I didn’t understand a single word of
English when I started working with
Photoshop,” he reveals. “A couple of years later
I decided to go to a creative school to study
commercial design. That is, until they kicked
me out after six months. The reason? I wasn’t
allowed to work with any Adobe program! I had
to draw my designs by hand and well, I’m a
terrible drawer. My teachers told me I was by
far the worst illustrator of my year – my
portraits got rated 3/20.”
On a mission to prove his teachers wrong,
Vanhaeren began sharing his work on
Behance, and after being selected as one of the
young artists for 25 Under 25 had his work
presented to all of Adobe’s followers on
Art Hive Online – a brand new curated online art
gallery marketplace – has officially just launched at
http://www.arthiveonline.com.
Promising to provide artists with an interactive
platform that stimulates, educates, facilitates
social and business interactions through the way
the new website has been designed, the Art Hive
Online team has described the intent to increase
artist exposure through targeted marketing as
ease of access and reach is provided to both art
enthusiasts and most importantly, the onliine art
buying audience.
“The art market is currently in a democratisation
phase both creatively and commercially. Both
artists and art enthusiasts are empowered by the
reach and access of a platform like Art Hive
Online,” said Oyin Charles, Founder and CEO. “As
much as we believe that the traditional galleries
still have a role, we strongly feel that online art
hubs like ours are here to stay. Art buyers get to
discover art and gain access to a wide variety of
original artworks on their own terms, at their
convenience, using any online platform of their
Facebook and Instagram to ultimately receive
over 6,000 likes and 100 comments on
Facebook alone. Now, he has launched a new
project, #AniWall – a collection of animated
portrait illustrations depicting Vanhaeren’s
favourite famous artists.choice without the unnecessary pressures of the
traditional marketplace. Likewise, the artists
now have access to a wider online buying
audience across a larger demographic much
faster than before.”
As well as sharing and promoting art, Art Hive
Online will also be sharing related information
such as artist interviews and photo slideshows to
give viewers a more intimate experience of an
artists’ work as well as educating collectors and
enthusiasts with tips for collecting, discussions of
art events, or by featuring new artists as the
online art gallery continues to grow.Adobe has announced a raft of new features to
further enhance Photoshop CC’s 3D capabilities.
The new content adds support for additional 3D
printers and file types, and gives artists greater
control over polygons, textures and colour. The
release date for the latest update to Photoshop
CC was still to be confirmed at the time of going
to press, but with the new content announced at
the 3D Printshows in New York and London, we
expect these features to be arriving in the
Creative Cloud very soon.ADOBE
INCREASES 3DCAPABILITIES IN
PHOTOSHOP CC
A FORTHCOMING RELEASE OF CC
WILL FEATURE ENHANCED TOOLS
AND FUNCTIONS FOR 3D ARTISTSMESH SIMPLIFICATION
The Simplify Mesh command will
allow you to reduce the number of
polygons in a 3D model, making
the resolution and file size smaller.
This is perfect for speeding up
your workflow when you don’t
need to work at ultra high
resolution, and also for sharing
your 3D models on the web.BUMP MAPS FROM
PHOTOS
Use any of your photos as a bump
map to create texture on your 3D
models. You will be able to convert
photos into 3D textures and control
the height and depth of the emboss
or imprint for full creative control.CONVERT VERTEX
COLOURS
The new Vertex Color to Texture
Conversion will allow you to capture
and edit colours from a 3D scanned
object as a Photoshop texture.SUPPORT FOR 3D HUBS
You can now print your 3D models
via local printer network 3D Hubs,
meaning that you can print your
models with the 3D Hubs service
practically anywhere in the world.
NEW FILE TYPES
Photoshop will now support,
save and print SVX and 3D PDF
files, making saving and printing
models more efficient.SUPPORT FOR
TINKERINE DITTOPRO
Photoshop will support the Tinkerine
DittoPro 3D printer in addition to a
range of other brands and models,
giving you more choice if you’re
looking at buying a 3D printer.