Posted on April 18, 2013

Around where I live we are still waiting impatiently for Spring to arrive. I’ve gotten so tired of the cold and gloom that I thought it would be therapeutic to create a new Spring wallpaper.

I’ve added “Sakura (2013)” to the Members Gallery this morning. I’ve wanted to update this piece for a long time, due to the fact that the cherry blossoms on the 2006 trees are actually 2D planes that lose detail closer to the camera.

Vue 11’s new “360 Ecosystems” finally allows me to create a proper flowering tree using 3D blooms. I’ve used this tech so far to create Christmas lights and a few glowing blooms but this is my first attempt at cherry trees.

This render itself is actually a “first draft” and there are a few aspects that I would still like to tweak, but I thought it came out nice enough to share while I render my revisions.

If you are curious, the scene contains over 98 billion polygons and took over 38 hours to render at 4096 x 2560. I’m hoping to cut down the render time for future versions.

Let me know what you think in the comments. I hope you like it!!

New Resolution:A lot of Members have been asking me if I could cover the new 21:9 (2560 x 1080) monitors that are coming out so I have finally added around 90 of my latest wallpapers in this format. You will find them in the “single screen” column on the image pages and the zip file is available at on the Downloads page.