Posted on August 29, 2017

Earthshadow

This piece arose from a converstation I had with my boys while on driving down to southern Illinois to witness last week’s total solar eclipse. We were talking about eclipses and how an eclipse would appear from the moon, with the sun covered by the Earth. We see these as “lunar eclipses” here on Earth and basically the moon turns blood red for a couple of hours. Why does it turn red? Because the sunlight creates a bright red ring around the Earth as it passes through our atmosphere.

As I was describing it I got to thinking that it would make for an interesting wallpaper. I hope you enjoy the result. If you are used to solar eclipse photos you will notice that the corona is smaller here. This is because the Earth is larger than the moon and blocks more of it from being seen. I realize the image looks a bit dark and featureless in thumbnail form but the larger versions in my gallery should show more detail.

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Posted on August 25, 2017

Cygni (Nightfall)

I thought it would be interesting to see what happens to the local Cygni flora when the sun dips below the horizon.

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Posted on August 24, 2017

Cygni (Updated)

I’ve added an updated version of “Cygni” to the gallery this morning. I’ve changed the colors of the vegetation and added subsurface scattering to give them a little bit of volume. I’ve also added the dual and triple-screen versions. The first version from 8/18 will remain available in the Pickle Jar.

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Posted on August 18, 2017

Cygni

Once again I found myself trying to use Vue d’Esprit to create a gas-giant type planet. It still looks a bit “chunkier” than I would prefer but I think I am making progress. Of course it’s all just an excuse to have fun creating alien vegetation for the foreground 🙂

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Posted on August 10, 2017

Eukarya

I guess I wasn’t quite ready to move on from the microscopic world. This one definitely follows on the work that I did with “Endogenesis“. Once again I’ve used The Plant Factory to create structures that are too small for the human eye to perceive (a world I am endlessly fascinated by). I’ve composed and rendered the scene using Lightwave 11.6.

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