Posted on December 1, 2012

After I figured out how to light up the trees in “Sleepwalker Wood” I went looking through my gallery for other candidates for arboreal illumination. The one that jumped out at me first was “Gotham Garden (2010)“.

I’ve posted two versions of this scene in the Members Gallery. The first (now in the Pickle Jar) used Vue 11’s volumetric snow, but the effect is a bit grainy. The featured version has no snow (it’s an early December scene I guess) but I may add it in a future version.

I must say that Vue 11 is very peculiar about saving files. More than once I have worked on files and saved them only to have them not open later or open but be radically altered. I’ve lost two projects to this in the past couple of weeks.

I’m still hoping a future Vue update will fix the problem, but it has certainly had an effect on my output these past couple of weeks. I may just go back to Vue 10…

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this little update of an old favorite!

Posted on November 28, 2012

One of the new Members who signed up on Black Friday just so happened to be an IT director at Stanford University. He wrote me over the weekend asking permission to use my work on the “very large display” he had just worked to install in the Peter Wallenberg Learning Theater on the Standford campus.

Of course I gave him permission with the caveat that he send me a few photos of my work in action. Pictured above is “Sunburst Daisy)” on the 17,280 x 4,320 monster screen. I’ve posted a few more of the pics on my Facebook page.

This is, of course, nirvana for me. I may need to go see it in person!

Posted on November 19, 2012

I’ve been using my “Sleepwalker Wood” scene to learn how Vue 11s new “360 Ecosystems” work. To that end there are now several different versions of the forest in the Pickle Jar for Members to choose from (including this blue one). You can help me out by rating the images you like and I will use the highest rated render for my main gallery. Thanks!!

Posted on November 15, 2012

I’ve added the dual and triple-screen versions of “Sleepwalker Wood (Winter/Night)” to the Members Gallery this morning. I went with the more popular “deeper focus” version for this one.

Posted on November 12, 2012

Vue 11 finally includes the ability to populate ecosystems on all sides of an object (previously they could only grow “on the top” of an object).

I immediately thought of Christmas lights.

Anyway, it was a bit more complicated than simply clicking a button but after much trial and error rendering (on my Asfaloth laptop no less) I think I am getting closer to happy.

Let me know what you think!