Posted on May 4, 2014

I had always planned on making a night version of “Pot of Gold” but I underestimated how much trouble I would have doing it Vue d’Esprit. Most of my “glowing” work is created in Lightwave after all.

I did finally manage to create something interesting in Vue but then after nearly 5 days (!) of rendering I aborted the scene. Instead I decided it would be better all-around if I recreated the pond scene in Lightwave for my night version.

I hope you like the result!

Posted on May 1, 2014

I think I am finally happy with my revised “Endless Blue“. At times I’ve wanted to retitle it “Endless Rendering” but I’ve finally figured out how to render it semi-quickly with decent quality. The night version should be interesting…

Posted on April 30, 2014

Just wanted to let you all know that I am finally accepting BitCoin for Memberships. I am using Coinbase to process the transactions.

Current Members can purchase their renewals using Bitcoin here!

Posted on April 22, 2014

I’ve added a new render of “Pot of Gold” this morning. The first version, while rated very highly by Members, had a rather glaring scale problem (one that my 10 year old son noticed immediately when first saw it).

I also went about things a little differently this time. I rendered a 9830 x 2048 scene and then used that to create the single-screen versions. I have dual and triple-screens but no 4K version yet (sorry). This render takes so long (due to all of the complex lighting interactions going on with the water) that I was afraid a 12288 x 2560 render would tie-up Bucephalus for a fortnight.

The original is still available in the Pickle Jar for comparison. I’m interested to hear your feedback!

Posted on April 19, 2014

Not sure if this one will stay in the gallery or not. After my Asfaloth laptop became available yesterday I thought it would be fun to create a version of my Easter Eggs under a black-light.

Hope you like it and have a happy Easter! Stay tuned for the multiscreen version of “Pot of Gold” in the next day or so…