Gilles Tran is a contemporary French 3D artist mostly known for his images rendered in POV-Ray. Most notable is his web site project The Book of Beginnings with images accompanied with pieces of unfinished text.
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Gilles Tran, Jaime Vives Piqueres,
Reach for the Stars
- 2000-present: The Book of Beginnings[1]
- 2001-2002: helped create Reach for the Stars, the first 3D image rendered in space, rendered in POV-Ray on the International Space Station (April 25 - May 5, 2002) by astronaut Mark Shuttleworth.
- 2004: produced 3D renderings for Infinite Spire and Fallen Headstones, a design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial[2]
- Invisible Me, a web comic. The character was originally based on Andy, an actual person who frequents the POV-Ray newsgroups. The comic began as an exercise demonstrating that you can create a comic using nothing but talk bubbles. The main character is characterized by his self loathing and loneliness.
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- 2003: Illustration in The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration, Steve Caplin, Adam Banks, Nigel Holmes, The Ilex Press Ltd, Great Britain
- 2005: Illustration in Digital Design of Nature: Computer Generated Plants and Organics, Oliver Deussen, Bernt Lintermann, Springer, Germany
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