Posted on May 26, 2014

Here’s my nearly final version of “Inner Space”. I thought it would be interesting to introduce some purple into the mix. Let me know what you think!

Posted on May 24, 2014

While waiting for a couple of renders to finish I thought I would tackle a site feature that many have requested.

It’s long been possible to buy someone a Membership using a Gift Certificate. My Pay-It-Forward program allowed one to renew a random Member (as a random act of kindness) but it has never been possible to purchase a renewal for an active Member (and thus keep alive the Membership that was initially given).

To fix this I’ve added a Gift Renewal page where all you need to do is enter the recipient’s username or account email address to get started.

It would seem to me that such a renewal would be the perfect gift. After all, the recipient has already shown that they enjoy my work enough to go the extra mile and become a Member.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!!

Posted on May 20, 2014

Continuing my experiments with e-on’s “The Plant Factory” here, exploring possibilities beyond greenery. Here’s a development photo showing TPFs “Grow on Mesh” capability with a non-continuous object.

Sorry the first draft is a little grainy. I used Lightwave’s native renderer here because F2 (my preferred Lightwave renderer) doesn’t work with Lightwave’s new instancing. I will work on cleaning it up for future renders.

Let me know what you think!

Multiscreen users: I have a 7680 x 1600 version of “Endless Blue (Night)” rendering now on Asfaloth. I hope to have it ready soon!!

Posted on May 16, 2014

Here’s a scene that I started on Asfaloth while I waited for “Endless Blue (Night)” to finish rendering on Bucephalus. It’s was inspired by “Relics” from 2000, but I thought it would be interesting to focus down the barrel. I modeled the barrel using Lightwave and then used the “grow-on-mesh” capability of The Plant Factory to create the vines.

Let me know what you think. I know it’s a bit different…

Posted on May 15, 2014

I started work on a night-time adaptation of “Endless Blue” almost immediately after I posted the last day version. It took me a few tried before I arrived at something worthy to post though. My first attempts were far too dark.

I hope I didn’t go overboard with the lights in this one. As with the day version wanted to take what I had done before and turn it up to 11.

Let me know what you think. I hope to have multiscreens soon!!