Posted on April 10, 2001

• I’ve added a flythru animation of “Gotham Garden” to the downloads page. MPG and DivX versions are available.

Posted on April 9, 2001

• I was having so much fun playing with Lightnet that I almost forgot to make a wallpaper for you guys. Almost. My latest upload, “Gotham Garden” combines elements from two of my recent projects: “Gotham 2001” and “Arboretum“. I think the result stands on its own and I welcome your comments. I’ve included an alternate render (before I removed the “big tree”) inside the picklejar.

Posted on April 5, 2001

• I’ve added DivX versions of the animations I posted yesterday. I think they look a little better than the MPG versions and they download faster. You’ll need to download and install the DivX codec before you can view them.

Posted on April 4, 2001

• The animated verison of “White Magic” took a little longer than I anticipated. For some strange, inexplicable reason it kept crashing on one frame. No matter what I tried, the bad frame (#90) simply would not render.

  So I only have frames 1-89 of my 120 frame animation. I guess that will have to be enough for now. I’ve posted it here ([an error occurred while processing this directive] zipped MPG).

  I’ve also posted an animated version of “Sunset Fog” ([an error occurred while processing this directive] zipped MPG). I’d rendered it a back in January but forgotten about it until now. Sorry about that.

  I hope you enjoy them. It’s likely you’ll be seeing more animations from now on, due to the fact that Lightnet has finally been updated for Lightwave 6.5. Now I can use all six of my processors (three workstations and my laptop) to render frames. Stay tuned!

Posted on March 31, 2001

• Added “White Magic” to the gallery today. I haven’t used my “Genesis” software since I created “Pyre” last year. This time I wanted to see how it acted with Lightwave’s new built-in particle systems. It works just fine (IMO). I hope to have an animated version up for you shortly. If you have any comments, feel free to send them my way.