3D artist with work on The Sphere Immersive experiences at Artechouse Sold digital art at Sotheby's Currently mixing 3D and AI Octane 😇
Castle Rock, CO
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I can’t believe this is real!!! 🤯
Getting my art onto the Sphere has been my biggest goal for years and now it’s a reality. I’m so grateful and honored, and stoked that @Abel_Okugawa joined me on this ride. His music is the other half of my art 💛
Entranced by “Viridian Lightfall,” the first XO/Art collaboration inspired by 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘻 𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.
Representing Dorothy’s journey from sepia Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, digital artist David Ariew takes viewers on a visual color story that begins in a field of golden light and builds through a crescendo of color before arriving at the luminous green of Emerald City.
Original Soundtack🎵: Abel Okugawa
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My @SuperRare genesis drop is LIVE and I'm beyond excited for this to go to a collector that loves the piece as much as I do!! superrare.com/artwork-v2/imm… #NFT #NFTcommunity #nftcollectors
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One of the three pieces I just released on @makersplaceco! These are my first NFTs and I can't be more excited! makersplace.com/davidariew/
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Visuals for the @deadmau5 cube that I ran with for funsies. Inspired F-Zero GX and Mario Kart, and the track is No Problem by Deadmau5. 48fps for game vibes, and yes I was too lazy to do TFD sims.
Thanks to Nick Scarcella for his amazing (free) HDRIs: gum.co/QRERD
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Fun little animation project I did for @beeple for CTRL+Z!! Last year was nuts and this year is getting a massive upgrade, so prepare yourselves for greatness!
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Just sold my lanterns for 17ETH to an anonymous bidder!! Whoever you are, thank you so much, and as I said, my wife @chelseaevenstar and I are going to be reinvesting every penny of it into new artists entering this amazing space!! #NFT #Collection #Collector
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Some recent client work -- this effect was tricky to pull off!! @OTOY Octane is amazing in production, even with tons of passes and heavy compositing work. It can do anything. 💛
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My collaboration piece with Jia Aili, “The Road Ahead” just sold for $224,000 in the @Sothebys Contemporary Evening Auction! I’m at a loss for words. Thank you so much to @triple_x_space and a massive congrats to @raoulmarks as well! You guys are incredible!! 🙏🙏🙏
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I'm beyond excited to announce that I'll be doing my first @niftygateway drop on this coming Tuesday June 8th!! The collection is five pieces using mirror boxes to create mesmerizing and trippy visuals. There'll be four drawings and one silent auction. CAN'T WAIT!!! #NFT #nftart
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Soon I'll be minting one of my favorite projects ever, which was a collaboration with the incredible composer @IvanTorrent for his album Immortalys as my @SuperRare genesis piece!! This marked a turning point in my art career towards celestial, awe-inspiring visuals. Can't wait!!
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I'm SOO honored and excited to reveal this piece for the ASH2 drop with @muratpak + 28 amazing artists!! I was inspired by Pak's iconography and combined those elements with my mirror box process, and I love the result! The mysterious and beautiful score is by @Abel_Okugawa ❤️🔥
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🚨IT’S LIVE🚨
333 mins, .033ETH
Max supply of 10, 🔥 evolutions planned, multiple seasons.
OE: app.manifold.xyz/c/spiritual…
Giving away 10 (!!) FREE editions to people who like, comment, RT! ❤️🔥
This style will be seen in the upcoming @beeple premiere. 😵💫😵💫😵💫
PS I love you all!
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I’M SO STOKED to announce that I’ve got an upcoming @makersplaceco drop this Thursday, July 1st, all within the Down on the Render Farm universe! It’ll include this whimsical 1/1 short, as well as three smaller pieces as editions. CAN’T. CONTAIN. EXCITEMENT!!! #NFT #Drop #nftart
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I'm SOO EXCITED to reveal my piece for @CubesCrypto & Creators that will drop on March 2nd on @niftygateway! This will be my first 1/1 on Nifty, and I love this one because it combines both my cinematic and abstract styles together! The incredible score is by @Abel_Okugawa! LFG!!
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I'm going to do my first #NFT drop soon on @withFND! I'm thinking about splitting this into shots and dropping each one and selling those for less, then selling the whole short for more. I haven't seen anyone dropping full CG short films yet. Any collectors out there into this?
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1/3 I'm SO EXCITED to reveal this project by the @get_nft Artist Collective, in partnership with @SevensGrant!! The absurdly talented artists within our collective have created an exhibition of 77 original works, surrounding the theme "Distorted Reality" grants.art/get-nft
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I think it's time to show the metamorphosed version of my #ashtwo piece, inspired by @muratpak! My favorite difference with this one might actually be the audio, as @Abel_Okugawa did an incredible job of creating a mysterious score that often sounds like it's playing in reverse❤️🔥
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I LOVE seeing my art BIG!!
This is a recent project I did for the Riyadh 23 Opening Ceremony!
All hail the golden cuuuube 💛🧊💛
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That time in 2019 where I did 4 months of concert visuals for @Zedd, with @beeple doing initial looks and @Sillygabe directing. Best job ever! This is only one song out of 9 I worked on, a total of 16 mins of 4K content. Hopefully will be able to share more in the future!! 💪❤️🔥💪
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ANNNND SOOLLD all of my pieces to @Crypto888crypto. Thank you so much -- this is absolutely career changing. Now I'm just going to make art and give back to other artists in the community by turning around and collecting their art. I'M SO STOKED RIGHT NOW!!!
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It was so fun doing these ULTRA wide visuals for Travis Scott! This is scaled waaay down for X -- the version in the show is 9K res 😱😱😱
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Hey everyone, Gm!!
I'd like to share this look into my path as an NFT artist and the absolutely CRAZY roller coaster ride that it's been over the past few years!
I'm SO excited for my first solo exhibition which will take place from the 19th-23rd at the @DigitalArtFair in Hong Kong, including my VR experience, 11 min visual meditation, and full immersion room as 1/1s auctioned by @phillipsauction and @MakersPlace!
Also, I'd love for you all to join me in this space here in about 40 mins!! nitter.app/i/spaces/1gqxvQv…
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🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 I was like there’s no way this is just one person. This has to be a massive VFX team... the only way would be if it’s Ian Hubert. And then I looked. And it was Ian Hubert. I can’t even comprehend this.
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I'm so proud and honored to reveal "The Road Ahead," an incredible collab with the brilliant Chinese artist Jia Aili, curated and organized by @triple_x_space, and presented in the @Sothebys Contemporary Evening Auction on April 27th, with legends @raoulmarks and @Ry_Hawthorne
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1/? Hey everyone, so today I got hacked. Fun times. It's been an extremely shitty day but thankfully I just got my Twitter back, and that's +1 for the Twitter team over Insta where this asshole is still trolling around asking people for ETH. It's extra upsetting because
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UPGRAEDD TIIIME!!!!11
Just waiting on that last 3090 to complete my farm of 6x 3090s and 4x 2080tis, spread across four machines! Baiii old cards!
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Are you ready for this? I'm all about longform NFTs and pushing the boundaries past the normal 15 to 30 second loop. Here's a full 2 minute experience dropping this Tuesday the 14th on @niftygateway!! This one's called Quantum Transcendence and I hope it puts you into a trance!
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The most @beeple-ey render I ever made (for Zedd) 😂🫶
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Alien environment test for the Deadmau5 Pomegranate music vid, directed by legend @smearballz!
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Late to the party...
2011: $15/hr
2012: $40K/yr (at a company)
2013: $45K/yr (at a company)
2014: $100/hr freelance, ~100K/yr
2015-2016: $100/hr freelance ~120K/yr
2017-2018: $600/day freelance ~180K/yr
2019: $800/day freelance ~230K/yr
2020: $900/day freelance
#mographPaidMe
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My Zedd reel from 2019, never before posted until now!
This is 100% the most fun I've ever had on a job for a client🤩💛
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I can hardly process this, but in 10 hours the bidding will begin for my piece in the @Sothebys Contemporary Evening Auction. This is a first for NFT art and I’m beyond honored to be here thanks to @triple_x_space, Jia Aili, and with the incredible @raoulmarks and @Ry_Hawthorne.
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Gm to all you digital artists! You’re the undiscovered diamonds powering this movement. 💎🫶
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For those who missed this yesterday, here's a direct link to the short film my team and I created as the announcement for @Crypto888crypto's upcoming platform 888tnw.com! This was definitely one of the most fun and ambitious projects ever!! vimeo.com/556062626
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I just dropped "Fractal Palace" on @makersplaceco! This was a really fun experiment with Vectron, a fractal generator inside Octane. Original music composition and sound design by @Abel_Okugawa. Bid here: makersplace.com/davidariew/f…
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YESSSS 888TNW is starting to come together! AND I'm soooo excited to announce I've accepted the position as Lead Curator for 3D Art!! I can't wait to help get many of the brilliant and deserving artists whose work has gone unseen through the door! 😱😱😱 #888tnw
The Newly Announced NFT Marketplace '888 the New World' Plans to Revolutionize the NFT & Art Industry newswire.com/news/the-newly-… @Crypto888crypto #888tnw
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I'd like to give a MASSIVE thank you to Habits!!! I'm completely shocked and insanely excited for the future! I don't know who you are but I owe you SO MANY BEERS! I'm also extremely grateful to @Hanrgb, @beeple, @superpotsecret and @illestrater_ for the bids and support! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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Been messing with some mirror box looks for an upcoming tutorial on creating abstract distortions in Octane!
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And now, the reveal! Here’s the full piece for my @Mo_Plus_Design drop on @SuperRare this Thursday!! This piece is a visual representation of the birth of the metaverse, happening right now before our eyes. Massive shoutout to @Abel_Okugawa for the incredible sound design!! ❤️🔥🙏
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Finally cut my 2018 reel, and almost all of it is new content, 100% #octane! I want to thank @IvanTorrent for all the amazing sound design work he put into this, and he even edited the song Moonriser to better fit my reel! Ivan made this feel more like an art piece than a reel!
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The VR experience (scaled for Twitter). This one is very emotional for me: dropbox.com/scl/fi/phn0snlgn…
It took 8,000 @rendernetwork tokens to render this experience.
I'm forever grateful to @JulesUrbach for donating the tokens so I could create this experience. There's nothing like watching 300 machines kick on at once, taking a render that would've taken my 8 x 3090s a month to complete a matter of days.
Best viewed on a @MetaQuestVR Pro with Skybox VR Player, VR 360 mode, zoom set to 0, T/B
This piece will be auctioned with @phillipsauction and @MakersPlace at the @DigitalArtFair in Hong Kong along with two others yet to be revealed.
@MakersPlace has helped me get to places as an artist that I never would have dreamed of, and I'm so thankful!!
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Ok I lied. Is this the trippiest piece I’ve ever done?? I don’t know but it’s dropping tomorrow on @niftygateway at 5PM as part of our Obscura gallery! Miami has been insanely fun and I’m so hyped for tomorrow!! #mirrorboxes #Psychedelicart
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A closer look at the giant coke pour I created for @SphereVegas with PHNTM studio! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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So damn proud to see my work used in @anyma_eva's new Quantum residency in Ibiza!! 😍
Rendered with @rendernetwork 🔥
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Showing my work last night at @beeple’s grand opening was a completely mind-blowing, life-changing experience. I feel so honored to be one of the artists working with this new INSANE canvas!! The future is going to be incredible! 🙏❤️🔥
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Have to admit, the ole vault is starting to look pretttty dope. Trying to focus on collecting from individual artists that I love rather than PFPs! 🔥🔥🔥
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oh good god... I gotta get into Embergen!!
live capture from #EmberGen viewport running at ~60fps on RTX3090
(the setup is very simple - using a wave shape to mask a twisting force)
HD on YouTube piped.video/0dMuq9ik1dY
Upscaled clip piped.video/qw-b1hRf9js
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🧵Hey web3 frens & 3D art appreciatooors! I shoulda done this for the new year, but hey I've been grinding for my @DiamondDawnNFT project. I'd love to share my career highlights with you prior to NFTs, then later do a 🧵of my 🤯 NFT rollercoaster ride. Buckle up! 2018 Reel 👇
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I totally resonate with this. I'm most comfortable starting in 3D and finding the composition. It allows for happy accidents, which is where 3D actually starts to feel like art!
Another look at Flow being rendered in Blender and EEVEE. I like to explore the set using a camera and discover ideas. To me this is much easier than using storyboards.
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Had a ton of fun making these visuals for Mary J Blige with Raw Cereal!! I managed to integrate some stock footage of the beach in 3D which saved me from doing crazy fluid sims 😂
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I'm SO stoked to reveal this new piece, Spirit Dragon, which will be shown at the @SuperchiefNFT gallery in Paris this week!
Inspired by my travels to Hong Kong, where large openings are deliberately left in their towering buildings to let spirit dragons through, this piece coincides with the Year Of The Dragon, and will bring great fortune to the holder. 🐉💛
Music and sound design by the incredible Sound Wizard, @Abel_Okugawa
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This is definitely my favorite look I created for @Drake's "It's All A Blur" tour! 🌌👁️
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LFGGGGG!!! I did the giant coke pour 😱😱😱
BEST TEAM EVER!!!
When you get an opportunity to work on the largest digital canvas in the world
you say yes, then you gather an all star team of frens to bring it to life. Happy to have jammed with production co PHNTM @virtueworldwide @SphereVegas @CocaCola @DavidAriew @HTAPES2 @iamfesq @Yo_Brilly & @jan_sladecko to make this happen. More bts to come ✌️
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My next drop on @makersplaceco is going to be a 1/1, in my concert visuals style of tightly syncing to the music. Did I mention I love making trippy mirror boxes? #NFT #NFTCollector #Collector #Octane #C4D #Crytpoart
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My Forest Lanterns are now on @makersplaceco. I've gotten so into collecting lately, and for this one I intend to take all the profits of this sale and use them to reinvest in other artists whose work I believe in. Bid here: makersplace.com/davidariew/f… #NFTs #nftcollector
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I'm incredibly honored to reveal this piece I created for @worldofwomennft Artfest Full Set collectors!!
The haunting music is by my amazing sound wizard @Abel_Okugawa and vocals by his wife Rahimah aka @RedFlowerLake!! You two seriously brought this piece to life and it would be nothing without you❤️🔥
This is a very meaningful piece to me because it's the first time I've put a character into one of my infinite mirror rooms, and the angel is designed by none other than my brilliant wife @chelseaevenstar!!
BTS coming soon...
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Focal length animations to the beat 💪🎧
Watch to the end for the light animation, which was crazy by itself before I even added the rings!!
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For the past four weeks my team and I have been working on the announcement video that lives on @Crypto888crypto's new site 888tnw.com! We pulled off 4 mins of animation in 4 weeks, which is absolutely nuts! We had SO much fun creating this!
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I'm using @OTOY @RenderToken on a massive job at the moment and 🤯🤯🤯 it's such a game-changer. I've unlocked TURBO mode for myself!!
This is coming from someone who has 8x 3090s locally, but absolutely nothing beats sending your render to 100 machines at a time. 😵💫🫠
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I sold MindWarp last night to @Crypto888crypto for 8.88Ξ! Thanks so much for your continued support, and I'm very glad that it found a home in your collection!! I'm excited to keep creating in this style!🙏🙏🙏❤️
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I love time remapping my camera moves in 3D! Doing this in post is NEVER as good. 🌔🎥
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I just dropped this #NFT on my @makersplace store! On this one, I wanted some of my friends to be able to collect my work, so it's an edition of 8, for 1.5 ETH each. I've got a second set of 8 coming -- also infinite mirror rooms like this. Enjoy! makersplace.com/davidariew/
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