Hi guys! The past week I spent most of the time building a Cryptovoxel gallery, it was a commission based my previously sold NFT art. I love CV because it feels like I'm playing around and seeing my art in 3D is really satisfying. I hope to upgrade my pc sometime in the near future, so I can experiment with different kinds of 3D art. This post was more of an afterthought, but I'll try to take more process screenshots for my future galleries.
https://twitter.com/KristyGlas/status/1334521358898880515
- KristyGlas
https://makersplace.com/zonted/a-happy-cloud-waterfall-1-of-3-32612/
I use Magical voxel to make most of the details for the gallery. You need to use 32x32x32 size, and the limit is around 200 of them per gallery, I create a bunch and so far I've never reached the limit.
126x126x126 is the mega voxels and you can only have around 5 per parcel, so pick what you make for those carefully.
https://makersplace.com/kristyglas/midnight-rain-3-of-3-34341/
I begin by marking a floor outline for the walls. I've improved my spatial awareness in the past few years, and you can check out this blog post for more details: @kristyglas/infinite-corridor-art-process-visualization-meditation
As I mark the gallery walls and adjust them around, I considering how much space I need for the most important installations. I work organically, adjusting the plans on the go, just like I do with my regular paintings. If something feels in the way, I adjust or remove it.
https://twitter.com/dcroweth/status/1334215315245256704/photo/1
- dcroweth
https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/the-tree-of-hope-14171
https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/infinite-corridor-15107
Another thing to consider is the atmosphere, for example with the infinite corridor I needed a long area for the best effect, some installations may require a tall area instead. There are ways to create illusions of space with images, if your options are limited. So far I don't own any of my own parcels and I'm thankful for the collectors giving me building opportunities on theirs, like the Zonted Gallery. I love designing voxels based on my own painting, because it's much more personal and it feels amazing to see it come to life in 3D.
CV works weird with resolutions so most of the walls, I cut into 4 parts for a crisper look. Even if you use huge resolution, it still ends up blurry somehow if you stretch it over too many blocks. So a part of the work is figuring out ways to work around limitations, and it's usually worth the final effect. Also animations with 4 frames looks decent, but more frames makes the CV gif-s blurrier, no matter the resolution.
The palm tree took the longest to make, because I had to figure out the roundness of the base and the leaf details in spatially. I wanted the leaves to not feel too flat. I'm still figuring out how to use Magical voxel, so I make due with what I've already learned. While I work I keep discovering new tools like layers and keyboard shortcuts by accident as I miss click while working. I'm still learning, but my point of this blog is to motivate more artists to give it a try. Also you don't need a gallery to get started. For example I made a voxel skull that I tokebized on Rarible and included the voxel in unlockables so the collectors can add it to their own gallery. The turning animation was done in magical voxel and I wonder how many other cool features I'll discover along the way. I've started including voxel unlockables with a lot of my Halloween pixel cats, adding fun variety.
As you can see above, I created one side then I mirrored it to create the the back side. This is because when I paint, the voxels keep sticking to the walls, so this way I have a better control of the 3D shape. As I learn Magical voxel more, I might find more efficient way to paint. Also ideally I'd like to use my tablet. However, so far the program has been very laggy and buggy with my walcom, so I mostly use the mouse.
This week I plan to dedicate fully to my Async genesis artwork, but next week I hope to start preparing the Christmas Cat Party. 
This is the tutorial I used to learn about CV basics, the interface has been updated, but the tutorial is still very useful:
Dragon Head Winners: 
Sent: https://nftshowroom.com/kristyglas/gallery/kristyglas_dragon-heads_freyzr
Thank you for reading ❤️ _
