Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper
Posted on November 13, 2015
“Winter Revelation“
I know a lot of you aren’t nearly ready for winter yet (I know I’m not) but, as the Starks have said, it’s coming. My first snowy render of the year is the winter version of “Autumn Revelation“. I was pretty happy with the cloud setup in the autumn version, but managed to tweak them a bit so they wouldn’t look exactly the same (since this pic is supposed to be a whole new season). The evergreens have kept their needles but the colorful trees have dropped their leaves.
Posted on November 9, 2015
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Posted on October 27, 2015
A couple of new additions to the gallery to mention this morning…
“Autumn Revelation“
There are many advantages to being a 2D artist over a 3D artist. One of the major ones (that makes me jealous) is that there is really no limit to how complex your scenes/objects can be because you only have to draw one side of them. Setting up complex scenes in 3D requires a bit more work, but one advantage of 3D art is that once that work is done I am able to move my camera/lights around the scene and capture different views almost like Ansel Adams hiking through his own personal Yosemite.
That’s what I’ve done with “Autumn Revelation“. I’ve moved the camera closer to the shore and I’ve replaced the reddish tones in the atmosphere with blusish ones. I’ve also added some foreground mist and shorted the evergreen trees by half. I previewed my render to the folks in the Private Facebook Group and they almost unanimously demanded that it have a gallery spot of its own.
I hope you enjoy it! Multiscreen users check back in a day or so as I created this one (on my single-screen Bucephalus workstation) as a single-screen wallpaper first. Old habits die hard…
Check out the rest of my Autumn here!
“Visitation“
“A Sincere Pumpkin Patch” was my homage to Charles Schultz’s classic. Of course part of the magic of the “The Great Pumpkin” is that he exists only in Linus’ imagination. I thought it would be fun to render at least one “flight of fancy” that might have occured while he sat his vigil in the pumpkin-patch. Here is one such vision…
The jack-o-lantern was modeled using Zbrush (though most of the details ended up getting glared out). The vines were modeled using e-on’s wonderful Plant Factory. Yes, I know it’s a little over-the-top but Halloween only comes once per year.
Not sure if I will add more “tricks of the imagination”. Let me know what you think!
Check out the rest of my Halloween here!
Posted on October 23, 2015
“A Sincere Pumpkin Patch“
I’ve had this idea for a long time, but I didn’t have a good way to make the necessary vines until I started using the Plant Factory. This piece is a nod to my favorite Halloween story growing up. I was a huge Peanuts fan and I still like to watch the “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” with my kids every Halloween.
I thought about visualizing “The Great Pumpkin” itself, but decided it fit better with Schultz’s theme of innocent faith to let the viewer wait and wonder. Let me know what you think in the comments!
Check out the rest of my Halloween here!
Posted on October 18, 2015
“Ghostlight Woods“
I’ve added “Ghostlight Woods” to the Members Gallery this morning. I started out with this one to create a spooky woods for a Halloween background. I don’t quite have the Halloween foreground worked out yet, but I liked how the light worked here as a “fading Autumn” scene. I have a few ideas for additions so don’t be surprised to see a new version appear in the days ahead.
Here’s how it looks on Shadowfax…
Stay tuned in the days ahead as I work a bit more on this one.