Even though the setting for the feature film Seabiscuit is the 1930s, the movie's premise is timeless. Based on a novel by Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit is a story about a down-and-out racehorse that transforms itself from an underdog to a champion, and in the process, captures the hearts of the American people during the Great Depression.
Since deciding to pursue a career as a professional illustrator, the former systems integrator/computer consultant has become a featured artist on the Renderosity Web site, one of the largest online communities for computer artists. Vysniauskas also is a founder of Renderosity magazine, a publication for hobbyists and professional artists alike, and is currently co-editing the book Digital Art for the 21st Century: Renderosity, which will feature cutting-edge imagery and techniques used in the creation of digital art. Recently, her work was featured on the book cover of Deliria—Faerie Tales for a new Millennium.
A selection of Vysniauskas's artwork appears on these two pages. Additional images can be found at www.renderosity.com/homepage.ez?Who=audre or at www.weird-art.com. —Karen Moltenbrey
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| Hairy Hook This multi-layered image, created solely with Ultra Fractal software, illustrates the chaotic style inherent in much of the artist's work. "A particular shape, texture, or theme may strike me at a certain time, where I ' |
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| Stormchaser This piece is indicative of the artist's unique application and integration of fractal imagery in her artwork. The main image is a Poser rendering that is textured with photographs of lightning. Additional postproduction w |
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| Sophisticati Composited in Photoshop, this selection is almost entirely composed of fractals created in Ultra Fractal. |
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| Minister Hill This unique landscape contains numerous human and animal Poser figures that are integrated into the Bryce scene. |
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| Dreamcatcher This image serves as another example of the artist's unique application of fractals as image textures. |
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| Grempy's Wings While this image doesn't contain fractals, it is illustrative of a photo-manipulation technique the artist accomplished using Photoshop and a Wacom graphics tablet. |
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| Bad Hair Day The artist explores her fascination for the macabre in this non-fractal-based image, illustrating her range of styles. |