Posted on September 23, 2008

• I’ve added dual and triple screen versions of “Red and Gold” to the gallery this morning.

  I’ve also added a poster version of “Red and Gold” to my Zazzle collection for those of you interested in having a hard copy on your wall.

  Lastly, for those of you who have wondered where I get my ideas from, I made a blog post recently which addresses this oft-asked question.

Posted on September 21, 2008

• By popular request, I’ve added an autumn colored version of “Green and Gold” (titled “Red and Gold”) to the gallery this morning. Normally, I would probably have something like this in the Pickle Jar but I think this one deserves a place in the gallery.

  Technically, one of the advantages of composing the tree out of many seperate tree objects is that I am able to vary the leaf colors. This is something that I haven’t been able to do before using single objects (you could use different colors but they would be evenly mixed throughout the tree).

  I should have a multi-screen render up soon and then move on to other projects.

Posted on September 18, 2008

• I’ve added dual and triple screen versions of “Green and Gold” to the gallery this morning. I have to say right up front that the “Cloud Bug” that has plauged other multi-screen renders rears its ugly head here as well. The cloud bug, if you didn’t read my post a couple of months ago, is a fault in Vue d’Esprit where the clouds change shape when I change the aspect ratio of the render. Basically, it means it is impossible to get the same clouds in the multi-screen render that I have in the single-screen version. They’ve told me that they are working on fixing this, but at this point I think the fix (if it comes at all) will be a part of Vue 7 rather than an update for Vue 6.

  I’ve added a print version of “Green and Gold” to my Zazzle collection. I’ve also added a couple of new product categories; greeting cards and postcards. So far I’ve only added the top ten images (plus one or two of my personal favs), but if the demand is there I will add more. The greeting cards are blank on the inside. I would have added Christmas images, but I have an exclusive arrangement with a British company that keeps me from marketing my own Christmas cards. I can provide a link to them if anyone is interested.

  I’ve been very pleased reading the comments regarding “Green and Gold” over the past few days. I’m glad most of you seem to have enjoyed it (and that some of you have found a bit of solace in it during troubling times). After 11 years making people happy never gets old.

Posted on September 14, 2008

• I’ve added “Green and Gold” to the gallery this morning. This project was an exercise for me to see if I could use Vue plants, along with the built-in Plant Editor, to create more complex and interesting models. I think it worked out pretty well in this case and I’m looking forward to trying more in the future. I hope you like it.

  You may notice that I have added my “Recent Blog Posts” in a column to the right. I thought it would be better to simply list the recent posts here than make a post on this page whenever I updated the blog.

  A big thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts on my “Politcal Ad” dilemma. I think the consensus is pretty clear.

Posted on September 11, 2008

• I made a post in my blog this morning regarding political banner ads on DB. Check it out here if you are interested.