Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper
Posted on March 1, 2014
It has been a banner week for generosity around here. Earlier in the week one of my Members kindly purchased a Lifetime Gift Certificate and addressed it to me with the stipulation that it be given to an active-duty servicemember or combat veteran. I announced this on my Facebook page and soon after I received another Lifetime Membership donation to match the first. Then a third Lifetime donation came in, this time earmarked for a deserving teacher!
So I have two Lifetime Memberships to give away to active-duty service members and one for a teacher. If you are an active-duty service member all you need to do to be considered is meet the above criteria and post a comment on this page. I have set up a separate page for teachers here.
To help out any of these individuals simply address a gift certificate to me and and reference the person you want to receive it and I will do the rest.
03-04-14 UPDATE: The originally donated Memberships have all been delivered. The original donor for teachers was so touched by all of the responses that she purchased 1-Month gift certificates for everyone who posted!
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Thanks so much to my generous Members!!
Posted on February 28, 2014
I haven’t forgotten about my multiscreen users out there. While I still have to finish multiscreen versions of “Rite of Spring” and “Endless Blue” (I don’t considered either of those projects truly finished yet) I can finally offer a render of “Amazed” for multiple monitors.
This one was hard to render because by zooming the camera out I added a lot more vegetation to the already dense scene. It topped out at around 240 billion polygons and crashed multiple times before I was finally able to finish it (in pieces) this afternoon.
I hope it was worth the wait! I hope to have more dual and triple-screen renders soon!!
Posted on February 26, 2014
If you hadn’t noticed I have been on something of an update kick early in 2014. I hope no one minds too much but I’ve had these projects bouncing around in my brain for far too long. They need to be released.
The update to “Aftermath” that I’ve added to the Members Gallery this morning is one that I’ve been wanting to do for some time. I didn’t really have it in me to show what caused all of the debris in the original “Aftermath” from 1999. When I started playing around with Lightwave’s Fracture tool and saw the possibilities I knew the moment had arrived to complete the scene.
I may have an update or two in store for this one so please check back from time to time. I’ve posted some “in-devlopement” pics on my Instagram account if anyone is interested and will continue to provide sneak-peeks of my upcoming projects there going forward. Follow me if you want to see what I am working on!
I am also trying to finish up the “Amazed” multiscreen but my machine keeps crashing in the middle. Very frustrating but “Amazed” is one of the densest scenes I’ve ever created (the multiscreen has around 240 billion polys). I have some ideas on how to fix it up though and I hope to have it ready soon!
Posted on February 21, 2014
After coming back from Rustycon in January I knew I wanted to incorporate a dragon into my next render. Here is a concept for what eventually became “The World Watches“. I decided in the end to go in a more metaphorical direction.
Members can download this version (and the “pool only version”) from my Pickle Jar.
Let me know which do you prefer (eye, dragon, pool only) and I will use that one for the main gallery. Thanks!
Posted on February 20, 2014
I’ve added my “final” version of “Amazed” to the Members Gallery this morning. I incorporated quite a few Member suggestions for this last render and I think this one turned out rather nicely. Over 180 billion polygons!
Check out the original “Amazed” here for comparison. I hope you guys like the updated version!
Next up I would like to do one last render of “Rite of Spring” and then multiscreens…