Posted on September 2, 2020

Taiga (Afternoon)

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The fourth in my Taiga series. The sun stays low on the horizon here because were are near the the Arctic Circle. Next up, evening…

Posted on September 1, 2020

Taiga (Morning)

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Taiga (Dawn)

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I’m going to try another dynamic style wallpaper sequence, but this time something a little more earthlike. The “taiga” is a type of boreal forest which also happens to be the world’s largest biome. Since this is a far northern environment I am going to keep the sun angle very low and the day short. Maybe two or three more 🙂

Posted on August 29, 2020

Taiga

Multi-Screen Render

It’s hard for me to play around in Gaea without wanting to take the mesh into VUE for a full landscape render. For this scene I used VUE’s “spherical landscape” model to (hopefully) more accurately model predawn sunlight on a mountain top. I used some tricks to fake it in “Oasia (Dawn)” 🙂

This might be another good candidate for the dynamic wallpaper treatment, but I will admit that I haven’t seen what it looks like during the day yet.

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Posted on August 21, 2020

Oasia (Dawn)

Multi-Screen Render

This is probably the last in my “Oasia” time-of-day sequence. Adding the fog bumped up the render time into the 5hr mark, vs 30 minutes for the cloudless versions but I think the effect was worth it here. I know not everyone is going to use these as dynamic wallpaper but I hope you’ve enjoyed the different views as much as I’ve enjoyed creating them.

PS: If I do something like this again I will certainly leave the moons out of the sky as they made the whole thing immensely more complicated 🙂

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Posted on August 20, 2020

Oasia (Dusk)

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Another in my “Oasia” time of day sequence. I might do more more (Dawn?) and then maybe do some slight pickle jar variations of each to make a proper “dynamic wallpaper” that will change through the day.