Posted on March 17, 2013

A number of folks seemed perplexed by the planets that I added to my 2013 “Singularity” update. The original did fine without them of course, but I added them to this scene because I wanted to try a “from the ground” render.

This is where I render a space scene using Lightwave (or Vue) and then use it as a sky object in a Vue scene.

That render took Vue a little longer than I had anticipated (84 hrs!) but it is complete and now available to my Members. I’m calling this one “Singularity Rising” (for now) bit that may change as I make some revisions.

I hope the issues that were pointed out for “Singularity” are minimized (or at least partially explained) in this planetary render. Perhaps I will go back and render a version without the planets?

Posted on March 14, 2013

I’ve been working on a new space scene over the past few days. As with all of my space projects, there comes a point where it looks pretty good as the view out of spaceship window. Then I must make the decision to be happy with that or press on a render a view “from the ground”.

“Phraxis“, for example, looks great by its own but “Phraxis Moon” is rated higher.

The new piece is an update to one of my old favorites, “Singularity”. I am already working on a view from the ground but I thought the space view looked nice to enough to compete for a gallery spot all on its own. My Members can now preview my in-progress work before it hits the main gallery here.

Let me know what you think in the comments!

Posted on March 13, 2013

The fine folks at Disruptive Media have added four new animated PS3 themes to the PSN Store. Themes are listed under “Games” if you want to find these for yourself. I love the animated effects!

New! An error occurred. Unable to execute JavaScript. –based on “Sierra Autumn”

New! An error occurred. Unable to execute JavaScript. –based on “Dragon’s Gold”

New! An error occurred. Unable to execute JavaScript. –based on “Moonlit Oasis”

New! An error occurred. Unable to execute JavaScript. –based on “Tharsis”

Any requests?

Posted on March 8, 2013

Added “Lucky Charm” to the Members Gallery this evening.

A lot of folks have been asking me if I could create a new St. Patrick’s Day wallpaer, and I thought it would be fun to do a night version of my “Cloverscape” sort of in the same mode as my “Pandora” version of “Satori”.

I’ve zoomed in quite a bit on the four-leaf clover from the original scene and gotten a bit fanciful with the lightning. A lot of people never noticed the four-leaf clover in the 2010 version so perhaps this will help point the way.

The title, by the way, is borrowed from my 2001 Lightwave render but you’ll probably agree that the two images are quite different.

Hope you enjoy it!!

Posted on March 1, 2013

Here’s a little something for my abstract fans.

I’ve been playing around with a free program called Jenn3D this week and produced this render in Lightwave 11.5 using some of the shapes I created. I call it “Geomancy” (abstracts are so hard to title).

I hope you enjoy it. Have a look at the 4K render if you are running multiple portrait monitors.