He wanted to learn…and learn something NEW, ahead of the rest. But Da Vinci was more than anything else a perpetually thirsty explorer of knowledge and ideas. Yes…he would have been late to lectures…whether to his own or someone elses. That image of him with all that white hair was at the end of life when his creative fires had mostly burned out…and he looked like shit. Leonardo was more modern than modern…just trapped by his 16th century milieu. Your impression seems driven by that image of him as an old guy…and the notion that old guys are still attached to weathered manuscripts. I’ve always thought of him as an engineer (both mechanical and biological) who craved being out in the field or holed up in a library, avoiding computers like the plague and having an office that was littered with textbooks and notebooks - the eccentric university professor with spectacles, an eight inch beard, who’s always 15 minutes late to lectures. Think for a moment what it would be like to witness Da Vinci as a presenter at NAB or SIGGRAPH? And that my friends…is staggering to imagine!ĭaVinci was known to be handsome, charming and articulate. One final thought: A modern day DaVinci would know more than NoseMan knows. He’d most certainly master xPresso, Python and one of the C programming languages. I can only imagine the c4d plugins DaVinci might create. As one who designed canals and tried to re-route a large river… it’s easy to see him drawn to mastering RealFlow. Can you imagine him with c4d’s hair system? DaVinci had signature hair design that set him apart. I can see him as a Beeple or David Ariev, building stage designs and venue video for ColdPlay, Beyonce or U2. DaVinci was involved in performance art for much of his life, helping stage performance with gears, pulleys and more before the era of engines and electricity. (hello Luke L) For much of his life Da Vinci viewed himself more as engineer and military inventor/strategist than as a painter. Leonardo would have loved CAD, engineering and military 3d.
Most certainly Leonardo would have been drawn to biological visualization and animation (hello Joel) He would have been other-worldly in 3d rigging and shared the spirit of Aleksey and other fine riggers here. He calculated the exact proportion of body parts, knew musculature as no other peer. He studied anatomy and performed dissections for decades. In today’s world you can see him as a Raphael Rau–a student of perfecting reality in an image- but also as a penultimate game designer. He was obsessed both by trying to capture reality in his paintings but also in exploring the worlds of fantasy with art. Put him in front of a timeline with keyframes and watch the man work!
More than anyone before him he was able to translate motion into his art. He would spend hours trying to observe–without benefit of a camera or video–the precise articulation of a bird’s wings in flight…horses in motion, water in flow…and other natural movement. He used depth of field techniques before anyone, blurring and diffusing objects at distance. Consider his break-thru technique of sfumato in our 3d terms today and you can view it as a method to achieve both ambient occlusion and global illumination. Da Vinci spent countless hours through his life studying how light and color work in the 3 dimensional world, and how our eyes perceive the world. I invite you to consider just how much he was like one of us, so similar to Joel, Matthew, Luke or others here…as I’ll explore. I’ve been studying Leonardo off an on the past few months.
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