Awesome Digital Art

Artist Felix Alejandro Hernandez creates what he calls “dream photography.” He works with miniatures and unexpected materials to create his fantastic little scenes. In this short Instagram clip, he shows how he made a tiny city out of staples and pins. The addition of smoke and some digital enhancements really help create a mood.

Visual artist Alex Le Guillou created these glorious digital sequences of trees using dots to represent their complex, organic shapes. He used LIDAR scans of the Tasmanian forest and digitally manipulated the 3D models to create this incredible footage. Created for the documentary The Giants: The Extraordinary Story of Bob Brown and the Forest.

With enough time and creativity, you can create incredible structures in Minecraft. German builder Timtenth shows off his largest project to date with time-lapse footage of the process. It took him 1000 hours to assemble this awe-inspiring digital Babylon. Stick around to the end for a fly-through of the finished environment.

Created by ShaneF Motion Design, this incredible CGI rendering replaces the windows at the Zara SoHo NYC store with visuals that create the illusion that the store has been flooded with some kind of alien swarm. We’d love to see this done in real life using transparent LED screens.

CG artist pwnisher challenged his fellow digital artists to create a unique scene based on a simple base animation he provided. Watch the top 100 or all 2400 submissions, each showcasing their artistry, technical skill, and creativity. Be sure to check out pwnisher’s earlier CG challenge, Parallel Dimensions.

Illustrator Daniele Turturici shows off a little bit of his digital painting technique, as he takes a scene and brings it to life through the addition of light and shadow created by a neon sign. The restaurant’s proprietor is known as a “Draak” in the artist’s universe. Be sure to check out more of his work on Instagram.