Hal Tenny
Focus: 3D fractal art, Raw fractals, Digital art
Tools: Mandelbulb 3D
Also: Author (Science Fiction)
Location: Danbury, North Carolina, USA.
About: Hal Tenny is well known in the 3D fractal art community as an outstanding artist and a creator of some of the most popular Mandelbulb 3D tutorials. He is a masterful MB3D technician with an amazing eye for color and composition.
Having been active in the arts all his life, Hal moved into digitally based art with the rise of computer imaging software. He began working with fractal images in 2009, using the fractal flame software Apophysis. Since then, he’s moved on to creating predominantly with Mandelbulb 3D.
Hal’s art is evocative of science fiction imagery—otherworldly environments, futuristic cities, wildly-complex alien technology… He utilizes the full potential of the MB3D environment with lighting, fog, and depth-of-field effects to create scenes of uncanny realism. While some of his art has illustrative and abstract qualities, many of his pieces feel almost photographic.
“…For the most part I work around the perimeter and beyond what is easily recognized as fractal art.”
Hal is also an author. He has a number of science fiction novels and short stories available at Amazon.com. [search: Hal Tenny]
The following images were created with Mandelbulb 3D (MB3D). They are © Hal Tenny and appear here with permission.
- “A River Runs Through It”
- “Atlantis”
- “Architecturally Delicious”
- “Riddle Totem”
- “Fantasy Tree Cottage”
- “Hypertube”
- “Temple of Fractology”
- “Sphere In Hiding”
- “The Big Empty”
- “Abandoned Swamp Village”
- “Long Legs”
- “Another Day at the Beach”
- “Simply Symmetrical”
- “Scenic Mountain Convention Center”
- “Beauty of Chaos”
- “Direct to Brain”
Check out: Mandelbulb 3D tutorials by Hal Tenny
Links: Hal Tenny on Deviant Art. Art prints available on Fine Art America. Visit HalTenny.com
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More of Hal Tenny’s art: View the legacy gallery of older Mandelbulb 3D images originally published with this artist profile in 2014.