Posted on October 8, 2012

My brother Eric was in town from Ohio this weekend. Saturday night Jessie, Eric and I went out to see “Looper“. We all thought it was a fun movie and had a great time.

I am mentioning it here because around the 2/3 of the way in there is a pivotal scene in a farm house. Hanging on the wall of this farm house near the bottom of an important staircase, was a square print of “Idyll“! I nudged Jessie, pointed it out, and whispered “That’s my picture!”.

Now I thought movie producers had to obtain releases for this sort of thing (as has happened to me once before) but maybe there is a “screentime” threshold under which it is not necessary. I don’t know (will be looking into it) and I wasn’t not worrying about at the moment.

My work has popped up in a lot of unexpected places this is the first time I’ve seen it up on the big screen. I must admit that I enjoyed it. If anything it is nice to know people are still enjoying my work 30 years from now!

It was also somewhat bittersweet because I know my Dad would have been there with us in the theater. I think he would have enjoyed it even more than I did.

Here is a version of the print (on Zazzle) that looks identical to what’s hanging in the farmhouse. Keep an eye out for it if you go to see the film (and you should!).

COMING SOON: My “Sierra Autumn” multiscreen is halfway finished. I hope to have it up within a couple of days. I’m also working on a little something for Halloween and a little something for people with Android devices. Stay tuned!

Posted on October 2, 2012

I’ve added an Autumn version of “Sierra” the Members Gallery today.

This is actually two renders (one with green leaves and one with Autumn colors) which I have layered in Photoshop so I could vary the leaves on a “per-tree” basis. It was time consuming but I hope the results were worth it!

Let me know what you think!

Posted on October 1, 2012

You may have noticed the Da Vinci quote at the top of my Works-In-Progress page which reads “Art is never finished, only abandoned”. Here is another render which proves this axiom.

I opened up my “Cobalt Daisy” scene file (created using Lightwave 7 back in 2002) in Lightwave 11 with the intention of rendering out the original in separate layers for an upcoming mobile project. When I had finished with that, however, I couldn’t resist the temptation to tweak some of my textures. A few hours later this was the result…

I posted it on my Facebook Page last night and asked folks what I should do with it. The majority said I should post it in the gallery so here it is.

This render is dedicated to my lovely wife Jessica. October 12, 2012 is our 10 year wedding anniversary and this piece was originally created 10 years ago. Te amo!

Posted on September 26, 2012

My friends at Disruptive Publishers have added 3 new Dynamic PS3 Themes to the PSN store today; “Castle Dracula” (above), “Moonshadow” and “The Overseer”. You can preview the new themes and the entire collection of themes here.

Posted on September 25, 2012

I’ve added the dual and triple-screen versions of “Sierra” to the Members Gallery this morning. This one took nearly 5 days to render at 9830 x 2048 and I had to restart it 3 times due to crashes. I hope it was worth the wait!

I’m feeling like working on something “Autumnal” now…