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Posted on March 18, 2022

Crystalline (Night)

As soon as I posted “Crystalline” folks were asking if I could do a night version. I’m usually all too happy to try one, but this scene presented a few challenges. The main one being that the lighting comes from an “environment map” which is basically a spherical 360 degree photo with extra exposure data encoded.

So to darken this scene I edited that background image to make it look more like night. It’s trickery though (like how they did those old movies…shooting during the day and darkening the film). I’m still learning how to set up lighting in Houdini so I hope it looks ok.

Let me know what you think!

Posted on March 16, 2022

Crystalline

Back to learning how to use Houdini. I’ve always been fascinated with crystals and how they interact with the light. The goal here was to learn how to use the Houdini’s Karma renderer along with subsurface scattering and transparency.

Full disclosure: I followed this tutorial to learn how to model the crystals themselves but I think I’ve added enough of my own creativity to share the render in my gallery. LMK what you think 🙂

Posted on March 1, 2022

Fluorescence (UKR)

If you’ve followed my work throughout the years you know that I like DB to be a refuge from the real world. Come here to forget everything and get lost in my galleries. Sometimes, however, real life cannot be ignored.

I’ve created this version of “Fluorescence” in the Ukrainian colors to show that I stand 100% behind those brave folks who are defending their country from a type of criminal invasion that I had hoped was a relic of the past. I’ve added it to my free gallery and will be making other sizes available to download for free shortly.

Posted on February 24, 2022

Hooded Peak (Dawn)

In the interest of completion I’ve added a dawn version to the “Hooded Peak” series. I decided to disperse the cloud a bit just for variety and I will leave it you to decided if this dawn was before or after the night scene.

If you’d followed me over the years you will know that I try not to comment on current events here. I’ve always wanted DB to be a place of refuge from real life and today is no different. Just know that I am as horrified and frightened as most of you are right now about what’s happening in Ukraine 😥.