Posted on August 15, 2004

• If you’ve been following my work since the beginning, you’ll know that I am fascinated with Nebulae. I’ve been trying to faithfully recreate them for some time now, with varying levels of success. It’s rather difficult to do realistic billowing clouds using 3D software.

  I’ve been exploring a different approach to creating the stardust clouds, and I think the results look more 3D than my previous efforts. The render, “Firmament“, is now up on the new images page. A widescreen version is also available (it was actually designed as a widescreen image). I hope you enjoy it.

• Ian‘s first birthday is this coming Thursday (has it been a year already???). My parents are coming out from Illinois for the birthday party so I probably won’t get to do too much work during the upcoming week.