Posted on October 16, 2013

Here is another “doodle” I put together on “Asfaloth” while my main workstation was rendering. I was trying to learn Lightwave’s new “Fracture” toolset.

Posted on October 14, 2013

Here is my third render of “Panoply“. The colors are somewhere between the first two. Yes I’ve toned down the purple a bit 😉

The first two renders will remain available in the Pickle Jar. The multiscreen is rendering right now and but will look a bit different…stay tuned!

Posted on October 11, 2013

Here is a little doodle I put together on Asfaloth while my main machine was rendering Panoply.

Nothing too fancy, just trying to visualize the famous couplet in the song by Deep Purple (“Smoke on the water and fire in the sky…”).

Posted on October 10, 2013

I’ve added v.2 of “Panoply” this morning and I am sure some of these changes are going to be controversial. Unfortunately there was a bit of a file mishap and my original scene file for version 1 was scrambled and un-usable so this is what I have for the time being.

I’ve toned down the lightbeams a little and also desaturated things a bit. It was mentioned that I should cut out the purple/burgandy tones but I wanted to explore those a bit more for this version (sorry!).

I still need get the bottom of the frame sorted out. Let me know what you think of the update!

Posted on October 7, 2013

I’ve added my first Autumn render of the year, “Panoply“, to the Members Gallery this evening. I have long wished the Vue d’Esprit would allow for varying the foliage colors on individual trees but sadly that feature hasn’t arrived yet.

I’m trying a new technique here using Vue’s new “360” instancing to create “Ecosystem” trees. Basically I’ve planted thousands of smaller trees onto larger tree models (trees are fractal by nature after all) and varied the colors that way.

Let me know what you think. I haven’t perfected the process yet but I like the results so far! Look for an update in the days ahead.