Work samples

  • basic lines Dark thin 3

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

  • basic lines Dark thin 2 Angle2

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

  • 	2025 lines cam1 darkmode 400fps lines2 (0-01-35-15).png
    2025 lines cam1 darkmode 400fps lines2 (0-01-35-15).png

    Personal art created with a 3d program, using unconventional improvised workflows. NO AI! These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After 20 years of making abstract animations with 3d CGI, I have stripped things down to the most basic visual elements- simply a line. But even a line can be very interesting when it is animated. I have found unique ways to create abstract animation without using artificial intelligence. 

  •  basic lines Dark thin Angle2 5min (0-01-59-18)
    basic lines Dark thin Angle2 5min (0-01-59-18)

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

About Ian

Ian Wilmoth is an American artist born in 1976. A RISD graduate, Ian is a pioneer of 3d animation using consumer hardware.  Inspired by grafitti and urban decay, I explore creating chaos and magic out of the sterile imaginary world of digital art.

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lines

Personal art created with a 3d program, using unconventional improvised workflows. NO AI! These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After 20 years of making abstract animations with 3d CGI, I have stripped things down to the most basic visual elements- simply a line. But even a line can be very interesting when it is animated. I have found unique ways to create abstract animation without using artificial intelligence. 

  • basic lines Dark thin 3

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

  • basic lines Dark thin 2 Angle2

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

  • basic lines Dark thin 2

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

  • basic lines Dark thin Angle2

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

  • basic lines Dark thin 2  Angle2
    basic lines Dark thin 2 Angle2

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

  • basic lines Dark thin 3
    basic lines Dark thin 3

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

  •  basic lines Dark thin Angle2 5min
    basic lines Dark thin Angle2 5min

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

  •  basic lines Dark thin Angle2 5min_1
    basic lines Dark thin Angle2 5min_1

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

  •  basic lines Dark thin Angle2 5min_1
    basic lines Dark thin Angle2 5min_1

    This is the latest iteration of over 20 years of abstract 3-D art which I have created in my spare time when I'm not making very realistic or specific things for commercial projects. These videos are intended for large scale projection in a gallery or museum. After doing a lot of these abstract videos with lots of color and three-dimensional shading or perspective, I have finally returned aesthetically to where I originally started as an artist, ALL the way back to when all I did was scribble. However, the process is much more complicated than using a pencil or prompting an AI for that matter. You would have to know what you are doing to re-create this.

4k vfx anims

the latest evolution of my personal animation and image making journey

  • time remap toruscam + ncloth 4k merge 14 colorC 4

    aww shiiiiiiii put the sound on

  • toruscam + ncloth 4k merge 14 colorB 2fps_1

    digital post impressionism

  • toruscam + ncloth 4k merge 14

    yooo

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    timestretched fnal frames 2_1_00003.png
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    timestretched fnal frames 2_1_00059.png
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    timestretched fnal frames 2_1_00002.png

    idk

  • 	toruscam + ncloth 4k merge 14 colorC_2.png
    toruscam + ncloth 4k merge 14 colorC_2.png

    ohhh 

  • 	toruscam + ncloth 4k merge 14 colorC_1.png
    toruscam + ncloth 4k merge 14 colorC_1.png
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    timestretched fnal frames 2_1_00034.png

    mostly made by instinct

    Available for Purchase
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    toruscam + ncloth 4k merge 14 colorC_5.png

personal holiday

This is a project that was begun as a series of daily renders posted to Instagram during 2020 quarantine and now I have developed it into this 4k animation with the goal of sharing it with people over the holiday season to make the world a bit brighter during this difficult time for many. The theme is playful exploration and happy accidents.
It does NOT use AI whatsoever! Made by hand with Maya and After Effects.
 

  • 2x tunnel 69 web
    This is a project that was begun as a series of daily renders posted to Instagram during 2020 quarantine and now I have developed it into this 4k animation. The theme is playful exploration and happy accidents. It does NOT use AI whatsoever! Made by hand with Maya and After Effects.
  • https://vimeo.com/889330493
    https://vimeo.com/889330493
    https://vimeo.com/889330493
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    2x_tunnel_69.00012
    2x_tunnel_69.00012
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    2x_tunnel_69.17272.png
    https://vimeo.com/889330493

feature length abstract animation

My AI has better temporal coherence than yours. At least that's the story I tell people in reality this animation is handcrafted by "traditional" CGI techniques developed for the film industry ...  the AI is used only to generate in between frames. Intended to loop in a museum or gallery setting, this is a feature length section, but the animation could keep being generated to an infinite length without ever repeating. Perhaps some day it will be able to just generate in realtime but for now it takes significantly longer to render this out than to play it back. Inspired by grafitti and urban decay, I explore creating chaos and magic out of the sterile imaginary world of digital art.
  • WEBfull macaronivsnewshit insta feature mov
    My AI has better temporal coherence than yours. This is a feature length section, but the animation could keep being generated to an infinite length without ever repeating. Perhaps some day it will be able to just generate in realtime but for now it takes significantly longer to render this out than to play it back. At least that's the story I tell people in reality this animation is painstakingly crafted by traditional means.
  • macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0064463.jpg
    macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0064463.jpg
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    macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0067563.jpg
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    macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0036652.jpg
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    macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0040392.jpg
    still frame from 90 minute animation
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    macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0055754.jpg
    still frame from 90 minute animation
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    macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0062413.jpg
    still frame from 90 minute animation
  • macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0070069.jpg
    macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0070069.jpg
    still frame from 90 minute animation
  • macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0048038.jpg
    macaronivsnewshit insta feature.0048038.jpg
    still frame from 90 minute animation

allTubes_weird

exploring styles native to the digital realm. Excerpts from a series of 365 daily images in which the aesthetic evolved in perceptibly from image to image but eventually wound up looking totally different than how it started.
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    allTubes_weird.0112.jpg
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    allTubes_weird.0129.jpg
  • allTubes_weird.0135.jpg
    allTubes_weird.0135.jpg
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    allTubes_weird.0147.jpg
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    allTubes_weird.0157.jpg
  • allTubes_weird.0203.jpg
    allTubes_weird.0203.jpg
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    allTubes_weird.0843.jpg
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    allTubes_weird.1438.jpg
  • allTubes_weird.0922.jpg
    allTubes_weird.0922.jpg
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    allTubes_weird.1482.jpg

plaster shinycloth

exploring styles native to the digital realm. Excerpts from a series of 365 daily images in which the aesthetic evolved in perceptibly from image to image but eventually wound up looking totally different than how it started. 3d and 2d digital media.
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    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0000.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0000
  •  plaster ShinyClothTint8_0185.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0185.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0185
  •  plaster ShinyClothTint8_0213.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0213.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0213
  •  plaster ShinyClothTint8_0315 copy.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0315 copy.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0315 copy
  •  plaster ShinyClothTint8_0551.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0551.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0551
  •  plaster ShinyClothTint8_0966.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0966.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0966
  •  plaster ShinyClothTint8_1210.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_1210.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_1210
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    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0514.jpg
    plaster ShinyClothTint8_0514