Integrated imagery. (portfolio).(Siggraph 2002 Art Gallery)

For many artists, completing a project provides exceptional personal fulfillment. Perhaps the only feeling that can top this kind of satisfaction is the pride of having the artwork on display for others to admire and enjoy. This year, more than 70 digital artists had the chance to show off their best to industry peers at the Siggraph 2002 Art Gallery.

Among the featured works were a number that use multiple images to form a single composition. These pieces include Cynthia Beth Rubin's Wilder Building, created from layered photographic elements; Chiara Boeri's The Goodnight, composed of various models generated on different media; Masa Inakage's Conscious, which contains several deformed 3D models; and Kurt Bakken's Flight, which incorporates layers of computer-generated 2D imagery. Others pieces, such as Yoichiro Kawaguchi's Cytolon, use animation to relay their messages.

A selection of these digital and electronic works, as well as others from the Siggraph Art Gallery, are featured on the following two pages.

* The Goodnight by Chiara Boeri comprises 63 panels, which were digitally created and then printed on different kinds of fabric, such as silk, canvas, and cotton. Each piece was later repainted with oil, then sewn together to form a patchwork representing memorable moments in the artist's life.

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* Cytolon by Yoichiro Kawaguchi of the University of Tokyo is an animation that was shown in the Art Gallery Screening Room. Rendered with proprietary software, the imagery, from which this still image was captured, is a visual representation of ecological space inside artificial ...