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Tanglimara
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[2007-11-05 22:09:04 +0000 UTC]
"Smoke Me A Kipper ....."
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 74; Deviations: 98; Watchers: 36
Watching: 49; Pageviews: 12448; Comments Made: 781; Friends: 49
# Interests
Favorite movies: Capricorn One, Animal House, Die Hard, Shawshank Redemption, The Hunt For Red OctoberFavorite bands / musical artists: Rush, Pink Floyd, Joe Satriana, Van Halen, Tears For Fears
Favorite games: Egyptian Pyramids
Tools of the Trade: Bryce, Apophysis, Photoshop, Vue, Terragen, DAZ|Studio plus lots of beer & late nights
Other Interests: Graphic & Web Design
# About me
My name is Tony Shaw and 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!!!
My personal web site at www.tony-shaw.co.uk contains a few galleries to explore, namely Photoshop, Bryce, Apophysis, Vue & 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 http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=tanglimara
I am also a moderator and produce some of the animated gifs and grapphics on Digital Down Under http://digitaldownunder.net/ which is an Australian 3D graphic art site run by SpiritTina spirittina.deviantart.com/ and FifthElemental fifthelemental.deviantart.com/
I post here at deviantART as well where I am also an Admin for the Home-Of-Dragons club home-of-dragons.deviantart.com/.
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.
Current Residence: Windy & Rainy Manchester, UK
Favourite genre of music: Rock, Heavy Metal
Favourite style of art: Sci-fi, Fantasy (toss a coin job I'm afraid)
Operating System: Vista
MP3 player of choice: Archos 504
Favourite cartoon character: Pink Panther
Personal Quote: Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast
# Comments
Comments: 69
Hi Tina,
I'm doing fine at the moment, I've been out of the digital art work for quite a while because I've been concentrating on my guitar but am now back into the artworld on a part time sort of basis. I'm posting the odd few images to DDU. Hope you are doing well. Nice to hear from you again.
Tony.
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hey tony
yeah same here have not done art for quite a while been concentrating on other stuff 
Tina
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No problems, I've been looking through your gallery and it's one of the best I've seen on DA. I'm getting so much inspiration from it.
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Thank you very much for the lovely compliment. Im glad that my work inspires you. Its the hardest part of being an artist..finding inspiration and creating something different that doesn't look like every other piece posted in here. The biggest problem in here is that so many of the young lack imagination so they just copy styles and concepts. I dont know if its insecurity or just plain laziness or perhaps its the lack of being taught nowdays how to wake up that imagination.
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Absolutely beautiful works Tony. I love them. Bravo.
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Well, I never! Tony, it is
great to find you here *shakes hands* I must catch up with you right and proper - but for now - another Red Dwarf fan? Fabulous, I feel like at home now...
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You see I found you, there's no hiding place ...
Sad news about DDU closing though.
Yep, I'm a real Dwarfer, got them all on DVD ... I smeggin' love 'em to bits.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
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Ace! What a guy... (as Ace Rimmer utters his famous quote).
Yeah...shame but things happen. That's not the only one that had to close - 3dcomune is no more, too. These are hard times, and I can only imagine what does it take to run such a site, what costs and whatnots. I hope I'll be able to keep in touch with as many as pos. Hanky is on DSA as well, but I'd love to hang out with him here s well - we need someone with that zest for life and the sense of humour.
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Your very welcome!
Your stuff is amazing, and it's great motivation
keep up the good work!
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Hey Tony ..just didnt wanted to miss saying thanks for the 
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No problem LS, we do get around on these sites don't we.
Tony.
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seems a few to much lately ..lol
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Yeah, busy busy busy, not much time for artwork
Been busy again tonight setting up my stock account on here:
More work hey ......
Tony.
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Hi!
Your beautiful artwork is being featured here:
[link]
If you don't want it featured, let me know!
-Morgan
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Many thanks Morgan, I'm flattered that you think my artwork is good enough to feature.
Thanks so much for this honour.
Tony.
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Hello back at you random deviant.
Gotta dash
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why?
how are you by the way?
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I always seem to be dashing about, so much to do as I'm active on 7 different art sites, some as a moderator ... other than that I'm fine, how about you?
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fit as a fiddle
so how have things been going now
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Pretty good, having fun doing artwork, my muse is coming back after going AWOL for a while.
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I see, that's good 
Summer's almost over at this side of the world
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We are having our summer here in the UK, let's see if it lasts longer than a week
Tony.
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Hi Tony
thank you for your lovely compliments
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It's a pleasure, thanks for your kind words.
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Many thx 4 the recent fav again!
Greatly appreciated Tony!
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Thanks for the 
Wold be nice that you come back my Gallery !!!
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I sure will be back to your gallery to seek inspiration.
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Thanks a lot Be always welcome
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Quality gallery which i enjoyed looking at it! 
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Many thanks man, I'm sure there will be more to come, just as soon as my inspiration returns to me as it seems to be hiding from me at the moment.
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Ohh! By the way, I forgot! 
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Thank you for your work from my picture "City Lights 1". It's amazing.
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your works are wonderful but your fractals, blow me away...amazing
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Many thanks indeed, high praise from such a talented artist like yourself.
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Hiya Tony, yeah finally made it on here, take a while to get used to, so forgive me if ignore you lol
cheers
Tammy
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