Fire Gulls @DonWhitaker

Uploaded March 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Just doodling around with some stuff from my archives. A meditation on the motions of wheeling gulls.

$Curvy Corrugated Caverns This is a quick and dirty zoom into a Mandelbulb 3D fractal. An unedited camera path - I just loaded up my shape and dove in, dropping keyframes as I went. If Id have known there were so many awesome patterns in there, I might have taken more time with it. :) The music is something I made with a new favorite music app called iKaossilator. You can download the song on my SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/donwhitaker/sh... Watch all of my 3D Fractal Vids: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=... Become a Mandelnaut! Learn to make your own fractals with my tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=... Subscribe to my channel for more fractal videos, tutorials and who knows what. http://www.youtube.com/user/kitchendon$

$Screencastoscope This is the animation that came out of my live screencast fractal Spelunking session from the other night. You can watch me working in Mandelbulb 3D as I found these shapes and create the animation in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gR3aSKDkus My computer is still tired from my last mega-render, so I set this on low-rez and churned out the frames in one night. I ran it through my transmogrifier to give it a little more umpph - and to increase the pixel count. Watch all of my 3D Fractal Vids: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=... Become a Mandelnaut! Learn to make your own fractals with my tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=... Subscribe to my channel for more fractal videos, tutorials and who knows what. http://www.youtube.com/user/kitchendon$

Double Pendulum Mirror - daily doodle 10

$Morphing Coral This is a test render that was too pretty to throw away. (^_^) Im trying to decide what to do with this shape I found that looks like ornate coral or a multi-colored octopus. There are some wonderful shapes in there, but I dont really think this morphing sequence is what I want. I think Ill try several slowly changing shots of my favorite shapes - I want to get a good long look at those crazy details. I mixed up the music in a Windows RT app called Music Maker Jam. Heres the Mandelbulb .m3a file for this animation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxgopudnqvpnskh/morphingcoral-anim.m3a and another spirally one for Pouff: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yplutlxyncw7692/SpiralSpiral2-anim.m3a Watch all of my 3D Fractal Vids: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBA14567494C6C3C2&feature=view_all Become a Mandelnaut! Learn to make your own fractals with my tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL67453435CBFEDB49&feature=view_all Subscribe to my channel for more fractal videos, tutorials and who knows what. http://www.youtube.com/user/kitchendon$

$Slices 5 Another in my Slices series. These images are a part of the process I use to take 3D shapes from Mandelbulb 3D and convert them into usable mesh objects for ZBrush and Unity. They are thin slices of the fractal shapes that are stacked together to form the 3D objects - they also make for some really spiffy animations. :) Music is Roll The Top Down by Gunnar Olsen from YouTubes free music collection. Check out my Symmetry playlist for the rest of the series: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAC441786915A2954$