Posted on August 21, 2001

• I’ve added three new images to my poster store. “Starbirth“, “First Rays“, and “Tropical Moon of Thetis” are all now available for your walls.

• My DSL was turned on this morning so I’ve finally been able to update the User Gallery. Out of over a hundred submissions I chose 32. Click here to view them.

Posted on August 18, 2001

• I’ve added some “Picklejar” versions of Starbirth. They are numbered from 1 to 4, chronologically. Each are interesting renders by themselves and would make decent wallpapers. In fact, I was tempted to post the image at each incarnation. I waited a day, worked on it some more, and the result is the image I posted on Wednesday.

  I’ve also made a “double-wide” render (3200 x 1200) for those of you who use two monitors. You’ll find it in my tiny “2X” folder in the picklejar. I don’t have a dual-monitor system myself, so I can’t really test this out. If anyone wants to send me a photo of their setup, I’d appreciate it. I only ask that you wait until Tuesday to send them, since that is when my DSL is scheduled to be turned on (fingers crossed).

• Jessie and I drove up to L.A. on Thursday to catch the last day of exhibitions at SIGGRAPH. We sat through some demos of Lightwave 7, and from what I saw I’m glad I purchased the upgrade. It should be arriving sometime next week. I saw a lot of software that I wanted to buy (Maya…).

  The highlight of the day for me was meeting Alex and Igor, the programmers behind World Builder. Alex scolded me for using too much Vue d’Esprit lately and I promised to get back to learning the new version of World Builder. I was deeply flattered when he told me that I had “mastered” the software. Quite a compliment, I thought, coming from the guy who designed the software.

  All in all we had a great time (except for the traffic in L.A.). Thanks to the folks at Right Hemisphere for sending me a free pass to the exhibits. I just recently downloaded their Lightwave plugin for Deep Paint 3D and I’m looking forward to learning it.

Posted on August 15, 2001

• Did you see the Persied Meteors last weekend? I saw some Friday Night and Saturday morning. I stayed up to watch them peak Sunday morning, but the marine layer rolled in around midnight and wiped out the view. I saw a few more on Sunday night.

  I’ve been out looking at the stars a lot lately. I just bought a telescope and I’ve been having a lot of fun checking out the moon and the planets. I tried looking at the Orion nebula, but it certainly didn’t look like the pictures I’ve seen. It just looked like a bluish fuzzy spot in the sky.

  I was a little bit disappointed. Perhaps the moon was interfering with my view? I went up to my computer and set about making my own nebula.

  The result, “Starbirth” is now up for your review. I’ve only been working on it for a couple of days now, and I might have more to add. Any feedback you might have would be helpful.

Posted on August 12, 2001

• I was going to put this one in the Pickle Jar, but Jessie saw it, liked it, and told me I should put it in the gallery. I was a little hesitant, but she’s usually right about these things. Anyway, I’ve added “Tropical Moon of Thetis” to the gallery. As you can guess from the title, it is a melding of “Tropical Moon” and “Thetis”. It’s on the New Images page and I hope you like it. I’m going to move onto something different now.
• I recently did an interview for Jerry Compansano over at Digital Artworks. It’s up now if you are interested.

Posted on August 9, 2001

• I’ve added “White Magic“, “Singularity“, and my latest work “Thetis” to my poster collection.