Lotus (1998)

I've never taken a class in 3D modeling or computer graphics. There was no YouTube either so I learned by doing. I would just start playing with the software and something would catch my eye and a story would start to form in my head. This is one such project which I created to learn modeling with my very first 3D modeling program; "Ray Dream Studio". I used this scene to learn about Boolean geometry.

The "pedestal" was actually created to be a helical, pointed object but when I rotated it upside down I saw it as a meditation platform and I built the rest of the scene around that.

First posted on DB 07/13/98, "Lotus" was one of the early renders that got people talking.