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The Autodesk Gallery is located in downtown San Francisco.
It’s an exciting place where we celebrate and showcase design and engineering
and host events such as design night. I’m Roddy Wykes, and I’m going to be showing
you an exciting addition to the gallery, the work of Macoto Murayama.
Macoto Murayama is a Japanese artist who creates large scale prints from detailed observations
of flowers and plants. I think his artwork is so compelling because
it’s a beautiful combination of traditional botanical artwork and detailed engineering
drawing. It’s probably surprising to most people
that he starts in a very traditional way. Macoto selects a flower of interest to him,
he then dissects it and hand sketches the flowers parts, he takes accurate measurements
and many reference photographs. Using all the data gained with his traditional
toolkit he’ll model a very accurate reconstruction in 3ds Max.
The next step is to render a series of wire frame and xray images, then take these into
photoshop, where he builds up his compositions layer by layer.
He’ll add measurements, part names, scientific data and other details to complete these beautiful
large scale botanical blue prints. Having seen all these wonderful 3d models
that Macoto had constructed, we saw a chance to partner with him to add something new and
unique to the exhibit. We began creating large scale 3d prints from
the same models that Macoto had used to create his images.
This petal from the Sweet Pea flower was printed here in the Autodesk workshop in Pier 9 and
we were excited to add this intricate piece to the exhibit.
The entire exhibit focuses on this one plant and we hope to provide visitors with an insight
into Macoto’s process so they can more fully appreciate the finished artwork.
So that was a quick look at the new Macoto exhibit.
Why not come in during our public hours, or our design night to see all the other great
exhibits at the Autodesk gallery.