Top 30 Artworks of Beeple from 2015 (WARNING: Can Cause Brain Damage)

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Abso-fucking-lutely nuts. Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple has finished an ‘everyday’ image for over 3100 days.

Every. Day.

In his own words “some of it is ok, but a lot of it kind of blows ass.”

For sure Mike’s phenomenal portfolio has a power to fuck with your mind. So be careful.

Mike is a freelance motion designer and 3D artist from Wisconsin, USA. He uses Cinema4D, After Effects and Photoshop. His short films have screened at onedotzero, Prix Ars Electronica and the Sydney Biennale.

Here are Top 30 Artworks of Beeple from 2015.

Warning: After seeing these pictures you may be tempted to create your own daily works.

BEEPLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Tumblr

• Instagram

• Vimeo

OVER TO YOU

Are you up for the challenge? Create the everyday artwork for the next 10 days.

After all as Steven Pressfield noted, “the most important thing about art is to work.”

I’d even want to encourage you to share your #dailyart in the comments below.

No matter how good or bad you think it is.

A few tips:

1. Build your scene around ONE emotion or concept. You should be able to describe your idea in one sentence.

2. Keep it minimal.

3. While creating a scene in Blender, follow Pareto principle (80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes).

When it starts getting hard, move on to post-processing

4. Post process the hell out of it in Gimp or Photoshop.

I will be happy to share my thoughts and review it.

42 comments

  1. Sayan Mondal

    I find it kinda cool as well as feel the amount of work and patience it goes into sitting down literally finishing something great everyday. It’s crazy. I had seen his works before and he really plays with emotions and of course our mind. Totally mind-blobling works. You have really done a great job choosing the top 30. Good research Gleb! Cheers.
    -Sayan

  2. Mark Anthony

    I love this artwork – and am not surprised you are a fan, Gleb – it’s very you… all abstract colours and lines and shapes.. It’s amazing – also – does the daily artwork have to be in Blender?

    • Mark it doesn’t have to be Blender. Anything you want 🙂

  3. Uncle Snail

    That’s commitment. I think I could maybe do it every week, but I don’t have the experience/talent (or the time, although “time is one of the only resources you can’t make, but one of the easiest to find”) to actually make something, at least half decent a day, without spending more than a few hours on it. I may try to do at least one in a day though, and see how it turns out. Thanks for the inspiration. 🙂
    (hey that would be a good challenge… Have a competition where in a week the competitors need to post 7 artworks, and are judged on the overall quality of all 7. You should start one. 😛 )

    • F#ck, that’s a really amazing idea! Daily artworks for a few days, judged on the overall quality.

      How should we call it? Beeple competition? 🙂

      • Uncle Snail

        Sounds like a good name to me. Otherwise, maybe “Be a Beeple”?

  4. brais

    Hey Geb, I’m also a fan of Beeple’s work.
    Any chance you could do some tutorials of montion graphics in blender? like the VJ stuff from Beeple or Greyscallegorilla?

    • Brais that’s an interesting subject for me but right now I’m more into the static renders. I’ll look into animated stuff in the future.

  5. Shucks you missed off my favourite Beeple… just give me a few days searching to find it ?

  6. Haha Alex, we need a search mission to find that exact artwork. When I think about his commitment it drives me insane. I know how hard it is to maintain a weekly schedule for renders. And producing a daily artwork is… well… I don’t know.

    • Yeah I know – I tried to do a daily Beeple project called ‘Somethings’ – I managed a grand total of 1 day haha! Whats more crazy is that i think Mr Beeple has a day job aswell!!!

        • Well done Alex! One day of Beeplism still requires an effort.
          And imagine, Mike has family too…

          • Yeah im in that club too. Which can only mean the guy’s actually a robot so doesnt need sleep 😉

          • Uncle Snail

            Hey, I’ve seen your “juicer” render before. 🙂 It’s very nice. That was done in a day!? Wow, that’s really good.

          • Ta. Not in a day although that was the idea when I started it.

          • michael acheampong

            Really. So how many days?

        • Excellent is Number three…. Love your style Alex!

  7. fuzzwald

    I can see this working – you start out with a few simple ideas and you build your assets. Pretty soon you have a whole lotta tools to work with. Thanks for posting this Gleb.

  8. Jesse Smith

    It’s beautiful. I gotta up my color game.

  9. SaphireS

    As you may be aware I’m also a die-hard beeble fan! 😀

    I started doing weekly beeple-ish artworks a few weeks ago since I can’t bring up the time to do dailys. ( https://www.artstation.com/artist/saphires )
    I think I can manage one (preferably non-competitional) week of dailys, but only if you’re in too Gleb 😉

  10. John McClane

    nothing interesting, poor postmodern like stupid Malevich

  11. Uncle Snail

    Okay, since it’s Thanksgiving break, I had a little extra time (no school!). I decided I would at least do a few of these, so here is my first one. I may make some more, but who knows?
    I call it, the fearless warrior. It pails in comparison to your bear stuffed bear (best stuffed bear ever made in Blender), but I’ll get there. I tried to do a lot of relatively new things for me in lighting, like hot and cold, rim lighting, and seriously ramping up the roughness on glossy shaders, to form the material.
    Any thoughts or advise?
    Thanks for viewing!
    (Maybe tomorrow I’ll work on the bear more.)

    • The fearless warrior concept is top-notch, great job! That’s my composition suggestions (+ the paint over for comparison):

      1.Tilt the camera a bit to create a ‘dramatic’ angle, as if the monster is threatening us
      2. Make the monster bigger, to create a clear focal point. Because right now the bear and the monster have the same visual weight, which makes the eye bounce
      3. Add some tentacles or hands or spider legs to ‘close’ the composition and at the same time create the interesting lines and shapes
      4. Play with the facial expression of the monster and also with the pose of the bear
      5. Add (fake) volumetrics. The attic is probably dusty 🙂
      6. Try a wooden floor to create the lines pointing to the monster?
      7. Add the details like a dripping slime and glowing sparks
      8. There is a room for post-processing stuff like glow.

      Woot. That’s a long list but hope you’ll find it helpful.
      Thank you once again!

      • Uncle Snail

        Very helpful! You are very good at making an image sooo much better with just post-processing. All the advise is great, and if I get time today (right now setting up for Thanksgiving) I’ll do another one, and try to work on post processing more. As it is, I definitely didn’t do enough.
        Thank you very much for the great advise! 🙂

  12. Uncle Snail

    Okay, I didn’t do one on Thanksgiving, but I just did another daily challenge. I call this one “First Snow”. I decided to do one with the theme of the current seasons. Doing this even just two days really gives me an appreciation for how Beeple can do this EVERY DAY, and not stop (not to mention having an idea for each picture).
    Anyway, I’d love advice on it. (You guys can beat me up I don’t mind).

    I tried not to “overdo” the scene this time. I tried to focus more on the look of the image than “using Blender”. I’m still quite new, but I’m getting better. 😛 (A little)

    • Very good! I like the colors and the mood.
      I’m not sure if I know how to make it better 🙂
      But maybe we can enlarge the snowflake to make it more prominent composition-wise? Worth trying, I think. Regarding everything else, it’s nice as it is.

      • Uncle Snail

        Thanks! I posted this on Google+ as well, and they recommended adding motion blur to the snow flake, and making it have 6-sided symmetry instead of 8, because that’s what real snow has. Who know? Just shows I should do my research. 😛

          • Uncle Snail

            Yeah, that’s a nice artwork! There’s a lot more detail in the snow flake as well. My size proportions also seemed a little unrealistic (the snow flake is about 1/8 the size of a leaf in the scene).
            I’m still working on mine for today, and may not get it done today (just started cause school just finished). Would you like me to make a new comment for my later artworks, or put them in this thread? (If I do more than ten, I’ll stop posting them here, and just put them on Twitter, unless you want me to put them here.)
            Once again, thanks for all the great advise!

            It’s awesome that newbies like me can get great advise. 🙂

          • Feel free to post it in the comments anywhere on my blog if you wish.

  13. Nathan Timothy Anderson

    Really amazing! I got inspired by him to do my own daily works but gave up after 2 days 😛 Can’t believe he has kept it up for so many years!

  14. Thanks for Sharing Post,Informative article, just what I was looking for.

  15. Thanks for your unique Idea. It is really important to keep daily artwork,

  16. I can see this working – you begin with a couple of straightforward thoughts and you manufacture your advantages. Truly soon you have an entire lotta instrument to work with. A debt of gratitude is in order for posting this Gleb.

  17. So creative work.Absolutely amazing.Thanks for sharing this creative works with us

  18. SuMon AHaMed

    ll Photographs are looking very good and your captured skill is perfect . I’m impressed after seeing your post .

  19. Thanks for really good artworks. I like this post.

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