Welcome
My name is Tony Shaw and this is my online gallery. I have been involved in the world of graphic art since August 2007.
My first encounter with graphic design came after I stumbled on a gallery by Peter Sharpe in 2005 whilst looking for some surreal wallpaper for my laptop. I remember being really impressed by what I saw and was amazed at how stunning and professional his work looked. I never thought I would ever produce images even approaching that quality. The only software I'd used up until then was Microsoft Paint.
Early in 2007 I re-visited Peter's site and purely by chance I happened to read one of his tutorials. I discovered that he produced the bulk of his work in Bryce and as a result I got hold of a free copy from DAZ Studio and loaded it onto my laptop. I have been helplessly addicted to it ever since. Unfortunately it appears that Peter's site no longer exists otherwise I would have provided a link to his gallery.
Since then I have expanded my design horizons and these days, as well as Bryce I use Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, DAZ Studio, Apophysis, Vue, Fractal Therapeutic Project & Terragen. I am now also trying to get to grips with ZBrush, TrueSpace, Incendia and 3D Studio Max ... there just aren't enough hours in the day!!!
This web site contains a few galleries to explore, namely Photoshop, Bryce, Apophysis, Vue, DAZ|Studio & Terragen, however some of the images have been created by using 2 or more of these applications.
The majority of my work is displayed at the online art community Renderosity. I am also a member and produce some of the animated gifs and graphics at Digital Down Under which is an Australian 3D graphic art site. I also post at deviantART where I have my own stock photo account as well. I am also a member of the Realm-Of-Fantasy club and the Blue club on deviantART. My username is 'tanglimara' on all these sites.
I am often asked how long it takes to produce each image, this varies greatly and can take anything from a couple of hours to a couple of days. I don't have any training in art except for what I did at school, and believe me that was a long time ago. To be honest I don't really have a clue what I'm doing most of the time, I just know that I have fun doing it. Unfortunately, due to other commitments I have not been able to produce much artwork since November 2009 but hope to pick it up again some day.
If you have any queries about my web-site or my work you can email me at:
contact@tony-shaw.co.uk
I've recently picked up the guitar again after a 15 year break and I've added a small 'Guitar' section with a few videos of me.
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