Boston and Cambridge
The ‘Boston and Cambridge’ digital art piece highlights the diversity of the namesake cities, with an emphasis on their people and some of their iconic buildings and bridges. My objective is to help the viewer of the piece feel as though they are in the city and enjoying the moment. The piece combines pop art with detailed architectural rendition to produce a novel portrayal of one of America’s great cities. The piece is enhanced by depictions of the people and scenery that differentiate San Francisco. Production of the graphics requires diligence, and the creation process took me 1000 or more hours to accomplish.
The art piece shows Boston buildings including 111 Huntington, South Station with a proposed tower, the Prudential, the Custom House, the John Hancock Tower (now 200 Clarendon Street), the MA State House, and a depiction of 8 brownstones that are common in Boston’s South End and Back Bay. The edifices in the vicinity of Harvard University include the Boat House, Memorial Hall, the Harvard Lampoon, and the John Harvard statue. The MIT region includes the Great Dome, the Stata building, the Green building, the Chapel, and 5 representative 3 story walkups in Cambridge. The colors in the art piece provide some graphical appeal in a highly stylized version of each of the buildings. The Zakim Bridge connecting Boston to Cambridge is accurately portrayed, including details such as the exact number of stays between the bridge towers. The trees marking the scene include the Live Oak, Apple, Black Maple, Sycamore, Red Maple, Cherry, Ginkgo, Thread-leaf Maple, and Monterey Cypress. A diversity of people and dogs line the streets, as they do in Boston and Cambridge!
I use 2.5D layering with perspective for all the graphics using an extremely time-consuming process. I depict each building from somewhat varying vantage points and with different scales to permit localized graphical scenes. I assemble the building graphics from many different sources that collectively capture the essence of structure and design.
The high-quality graphics are printed on Fujiflex mounted to an aluminum composite substrate. This approach provides exceptional clarity and print durability and offers a suitable mounting surface for the 3D models. Retaining the detailed graphics during printing is only made possible by the 610 dpi resolution of Fujiflex. The art is mounted in a thin white wooden float frame.
The ‘Boston and Cambridge’ digital art piece highlights the diversity of the namesake cities, with an emphasis on their people and some of their iconic buildings and bridges. My objective is to help the viewer of the piece feel as though they are in the city and enjoying the moment. The piece combines pop art with detailed architectural rendition to produce a novel portrayal of one of America’s great cities. The piece is enhanced by depictions of the people and scenery that differentiate San Francisco. Production of the graphics requires diligence, and the creation process took me 1000 or more hours to accomplish.
The art piece shows Boston buildings including 111 Huntington, South Station with a proposed tower, the Prudential, the Custom House, the John Hancock Tower (now 200 Clarendon Street), the MA State House, and a depiction of 8 brownstones that are common in Boston’s South End and Back Bay. The edifices in the vicinity of Harvard University include the Boat House, Memorial Hall, the Harvard Lampoon, and the John Harvard statue. The MIT region includes the Great Dome, the Stata building, the Green building, the Chapel, and 5 representative 3 story walkups in Cambridge. The colors in the art piece provide some graphical appeal in a highly stylized version of each of the buildings. The Zakim Bridge connecting Boston to Cambridge is accurately portrayed, including details such as the exact number of stays between the bridge towers. The trees marking the scene include the Live Oak, Apple, Black Maple, Sycamore, Red Maple, Cherry, Ginkgo, Thread-leaf Maple, and Monterey Cypress. A diversity of people and dogs line the streets, as they do in Boston and Cambridge!
I use 2.5D layering with perspective for all the graphics using an extremely time-consuming process. I depict each building from somewhat varying vantage points and with different scales to permit localized graphical scenes. I assemble the building graphics from many different sources that collectively capture the essence of structure and design.
The high-quality graphics are printed on Fujiflex mounted to an aluminum composite substrate. This approach provides exceptional clarity and print durability and offers a suitable mounting surface for the 3D models. Retaining the detailed graphics during printing is only made possible by the 610 dpi resolution of Fujiflex. The art is mounted in a thin white wooden float frame.
The ‘Boston and Cambridge’ digital art piece highlights the diversity of the namesake cities, with an emphasis on their people and some of their iconic buildings and bridges. My objective is to help the viewer of the piece feel as though they are in the city and enjoying the moment. The piece combines pop art with detailed architectural rendition to produce a novel portrayal of one of America’s great cities. The piece is enhanced by depictions of the people and scenery that differentiate San Francisco. Production of the graphics requires diligence, and the creation process took me 1000 or more hours to accomplish.
The art piece shows Boston buildings including 111 Huntington, South Station with a proposed tower, the Prudential, the Custom House, the John Hancock Tower (now 200 Clarendon Street), the MA State House, and a depiction of 8 brownstones that are common in Boston’s South End and Back Bay. The edifices in the vicinity of Harvard University include the Boat House, Memorial Hall, the Harvard Lampoon, and the John Harvard statue. The MIT region includes the Great Dome, the Stata building, the Green building, the Chapel, and 5 representative 3 story walkups in Cambridge. The colors in the art piece provide some graphical appeal in a highly stylized version of each of the buildings. The Zakim Bridge connecting Boston to Cambridge is accurately portrayed, including details such as the exact number of stays between the bridge towers. The trees marking the scene include the Live Oak, Apple, Black Maple, Sycamore, Red Maple, Cherry, Ginkgo, Thread-leaf Maple, and Monterey Cypress. A diversity of people and dogs line the streets, as they do in Boston and Cambridge!
I use 2.5D layering with perspective for all the graphics using an extremely time-consuming process. I depict each building from somewhat varying vantage points and with different scales to permit localized graphical scenes. I assemble the building graphics from many different sources that collectively capture the essence of structure and design.
The high-quality graphics are printed on Fujiflex mounted to an aluminum composite substrate. This approach provides exceptional clarity and print durability and offers a suitable mounting surface for the 3D models. Retaining the detailed graphics during printing is only made possible by the 610 dpi resolution of Fujiflex. The art is mounted in a thin white wooden float frame.