Posted on August 29, 2004

• I’ve been spending the past few days exploring the new version of “World Builder” and seeing what it can do. It has a lot of cool new features, but I am more impressed that the program seems fairly stable now. There’s still a few bugs to work out, but I think the fine folks over at Digital Element have done a great job.

  My latest World Builder render, “Idyll“, is now up on the new images page for your review. A widescreen version is also available. I hope you like it. I may have a tweak or two left to make with it, so drop me a line if you have any comments.

  You’ll probably see a few more World Builder renders than you have in the past, now that the program is a little easier to work with.

Posted on August 24, 2004

• As I mentioned last time (so long ago), I had some family come out to visit and celebrate Ian’s first birthday. He had a wonderful time by the way. Here’s a photo of him enjoying his first piece of cake.

  I wasn’t able to spend much time at my computer though, other than answering a few emails. My copy of World Builder 4 arrived a few days ago. My first order of business is to install it and see what’s new. Barring major bugs, I’ll use it for my next project. We’ll see what happens. Thanks for being patient while I spend some time with my family!

Posted on August 15, 2004

• If you’ve been following my work since the beginning, you’ll know that I am fascinated with Nebulae. I’ve been trying to faithfully recreate them for some time now, with varying levels of success. It’s rather difficult to do realistic billowing clouds using 3D software.

  I’ve been exploring a different approach to creating the stardust clouds, and I think the results look more 3D than my previous efforts. The render, “Firmament“, is now up on the new images page. A widescreen version is also available (it was actually designed as a widescreen image). I hope you enjoy it.

• Ian‘s first birthday is this coming Thursday (has it been a year already???). My parents are coming out from Illinois for the birthday party so I probably won’t get to do too much work during the upcoming week.

Posted on August 10, 2004

• I’ve added a dual and triple screen version of “Sunspire by Night”. The daytime version will take a little longer to render, but it’s coming.

Posted on August 9, 2004

• I’ve posted a nighttime version of “Sunspire” on the new images page. A widescreen version is also available. Yes, I am working on multi-monitor versions of both renders. The night version will probably be up first (it doesn’t take very long to render) and the sunlit version will follow a few days later. The widescreen version took around 3 days to render, so I imaging the triple screen version may take up to 5 or 6.