Sofia Syjuco – Looking Outwards -05

Neural Pathways (Stills from movie)
Alexey Kashpersky
2015

Kashpersky’s project, to create 3d visualizations of neural pathways for a movie, is something that I very much admire. It’s really interesting that the movie strove to depict something that, it’s likely they couldn’t just use a physical example of. Instead, an artist had to be brought in, and with him, his own aesthetic and ideas about how things should look. Resulting in a depiction of something that is real, but is uniquely represented because it’s not naturally occurring in nature – it is the product of an artist trying to *make* something in nature. I really admire that about this project, because it shows how important the role of the artist is in helping people to understand the world around them, in ways that are singularly beautiful and pleasing. I know that these works were generated using 3D programs like Zbrush and 3DS Max.