New Territories

by Nigel Suckling

Jurgen Ziewe is the acknowledged master of computer-generated fantasy art. He won an international reputation from his mystical Crystal Vision cards, following up that success many bestselling posters including with his Mona Lisa and Creation. This book collects the most stunning of Ziewe's images and, for the first time, reveals the groundbreaking working methods of this pioneer of computer imaging.In New Territories, Ziewe guides the reader through the basics of working on computer instead of canvas, from creating three-dimensional backgrounds and virtual landscapes, to playing with fractals, textures and posing the human figure. The book also provides the insight behind his compelling illustrations -- inspired by Jungian dream theory and New Age symbolism. Ziewe has created landscapes that until now were only possible in the imagination -- from dolphins cavorting in space and metallic superbeings enjoying a virtual picnic to hippies perched on the hood of a VW Beetle, basking in a fractalized sun- set. For all artists graphic designers in and interested expanding their computer design skills as well as fans of fantasy and New Age art, New Territories provides an illuminating look at the artistic medium of the future.

Genres: Art

128 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 1997

Reviews

[Patrick Stuart · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an utterly fascinating fragment of momentary time. I wish more of these images were still available in poster form.

Its mind-melting to me that the publication date is only a few years away from the Matrix being released.

What can I say about these remarkable, sincere, arguably at times, gauche visions? They seem to proceed instantaneously from a world of pure forms and to be decanted into our eyeballs. Unearthly in the truest sense, this feels like a rare moment of computers being both 'honest' and beautiful. Long before they were subdued into forming textured simulations of reality, they created what seemed most natural to them and Ziew has worked with this inherent capacity of the machine to produce images of a world which combines the fairytale, the subconscious and massless virtuality. Here the 'flaws' and peccadilloes of a simulated reality are not covered over or magicked out of sight, but work with and within, on their own terms.

[Earl · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ISBN code is correct but the type of this book is incorrect, it is a hardback not a paperback and the book cover image is wrong.