Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper
Posted on February 20, 2017
Rolling Ridges
Nothing too fancy here. Trying to create a sense of “land waves” receding to the horizon (and work on my cloud techniques). Also wanted to do a Vue landscape that could render in under 12 hours at 6K 🙂
Hope you enjoy it!
Posted on February 19, 2017
Twenty Years of DB!
In January of 1997 I was about to graduate from the University of Iowa with a BS in Computer Science and I was looking for a decent job. One of the companies I interviewed with asked if I knew how to code web pages (the WWW was the hot new thing in ’97) and I honestly told them “No”. I didn’t get the job.
The CS dept didn’t teach web programming back then so I bought myself a copy of “HTML for Dummies” and, over the course of a weekend, put together a web gallery containing all of the 3D renders that I had been creating for fun up until that point.
I posted them on my ISP supplied homepage and called it “Digital Blasphemy”.
Two years later I decided to try to make it my full-time job by asking the folks who enjoyed my work the most to pay a small fee to access my entire collection. Since 1999 I have spent my days (and nights) creating new renders for the people who support my work.
Here’s a look at 20 years of renders in one image…
Thanks so much to all of the current and former Members who have made it all possible. Here’s to another 20 years!!
Posted on February 15, 2017
Serenity
Inspired by “Monet’s Pond” in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. I added the lotus (petals modeled in Lightwave, model assembled in Plant Factory) to give the piece a central focus.
Posted on February 9, 2017
Exobotany
This one started out as a revisit of “Planitia” (which turns 10 years old this year!) using some of my custom-designed Plant Factory models. The plants used some of the techniques I learned creating “Dreams of Avarice“.
It took an unholy long time to render on Shadowfax due to the all the SSS and refractive globes. Somewhere about 2/3rds of the way through the render it occurred to me that perhaps the bottom of the screen was a bit on the busy side, but I let it finish rather than start over.
Let me know what you think!
Posted on February 1, 2017
First off, happy Birthday to my lovely and talented wife Jessica!! You don’t hear much from her, but trust me when I say that this gallery would not still be here without her hard work. I love you baby!
True North
This piece is a “side-project” that I started in the middle of working on something else. I was working on a new sci-fi project and decided that an unused element would work nicely as an aurora. The scene was designed and rendered on my old Bucephalus workstation.
Signed Metal Prints
Just FYI, I’ve added metal as an option for my signed prints. We purchased one of my metal prints as a Christmas gift this year for some good friends of ours and were blown away by the results. They are a bit smaller than the wrapped canvases (max 30″ wide) but they are easy to hang and absolutely stunning.