"With its expansive resolution, lighting and shadow, various textural qualities, and color depth, the complex beauty of the Mandelbulb becomes a thing to behold."

THE CREATORS PROJECT

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by http://www.julius-horsthuis.com/ music: Max Cooper - Symmetry (Hidden Orchestra Remix) Contains footage from the PY1 experience "Through the Echoes" by Silent Partners Studio Montreal Creatures created by Bloc D all fractals rendered in Mandelbulb3D 2019

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You may interpret this faux trailer in two ways: 1) This is the next installment of my Fractalicious series, this time in trailer format. 2) This is a proof of concept trailer of an actual film filled to the brim with 3d fractals and other nouveau techniques. If you happen to be a film producer looking for fresh ideas, please choose option 2. music is taken from 'How to make a Blockbuster Movie Trailer' by Auralnauts all fractals rendered in Mandelbulb3d
Fractalicious is a series of compilations for those who don't want to sit through an entire fractal to see how it morphs, but would rather see only the highlights. www.julius-horsthuis.com music: Julian Calor - Desperation
Fractal art is the opposite of design. When playing around with fractals, shapes start to emerge, and when they start to resemble something - anything - I play with that. For instance, if something looks like a mountain, I will color it like a mountain, and light it with a low sun, or a hazy atmosphere. This is important because the human eye will connect with something it thinks it knows - but it's different. The danger of fractal art is that it becomes so abstract that your mind can't comprehend it at all. www.julius-horsthuis.com music: Birds of Paradise - Totally Tubular
Wishing you all a very Fractalicious 2017. music: Moai System - Stellar Blues

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Fractalicious 4 shows my best work from the last couple of months, including some new material - everything rendered in Mandelbulb3D. All is edited with a lot of love to the music "Solitude" by M83. check out more of my work on www.julius-horsthuis.com

 

 

Every 6 months or so I bundle the best parts of my Fractal short films into a showreel-style piece. This is the third installment of the Fractalicious series. music: "Attica" by Vessels


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Fractalicious showreel www.julius-horsthuis.com music: 'Elliptic' by Vessels

 

 

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I published my first Fractal on Vimeo on the 31st of December 2013. After that, 2014 has been a very Fractalicious year for me. Thanks to a very supportive community on Vimeo and other social media, I’ve produced some 20 little fractal clips that total more than an hour of running time. Currently, I’m in the process of figuring out how to release my latest project, “Foreign Nature”, which will play on an Oculus VR, 360 degrees around you. Let’s hope that 2015 will bring forth a hell of a lot more Fractaliciousness! By Julius Horsthuis music: “The Sky Was Pink” by Vessels

 

 

FOREWORD

Dear visitor,

Over the years I've gathered experience in film, 3D animation and VFX that I now try to expand with a little help from fractals. Fractal shorts are great for developing skills – they are exercises in framing, composition, color and style. In 2014 I started creating Fractal shorts, but also tutorials, virtual reality experiences and immersive films for domes.

Now I've combined all this material on this website, for easy browsing and categorization. I've also included some new content, like a gallery page with some fractal artwork.

For people interested in the process and techniques I've also written a little background on each Fractal short. The articles vary in scope; some are about techniques, others are more about the idea behind it or some hurdle I had to take to finish the piece.. 

I've also included the animation files for each Fractal short. You may download it and open it with the free software (Mandelbulb3D) to study your favorite fractal or maybe improve upon it. More information on the software in the about section. You can find the background and animation file in each of the Fractal Shorts. 

If you feel you want to donate some money to support my work you are very welcome as I've embedded a 'donate' button in the about section.

The aim of this website is two-fold: I want to promote my own work so that more people will see it, and give suggestions and feedback so that I can become better at what I love doing by doing more of it. On the other hand I also hope to inspire people to create, and want to share what I've learned with the community that I've learned so much from.

Julius Horsthuis