Hypogeum (Violet)

Posted on December 4, 2024

Here’s one last color variation of my “Hypogeum” series.   Trying here to darken the background a bit to focus on the tree more.   

Help me out here: Which version should I feature in my gallery?? One will be featured and the other two will go in the Pickle Jar.

For my part I’m going to move on to a new project now 🙂

Hypogeum (Red/Blue)

Posted on December 3, 2024

I received many requests for different color variations of “Hypogeum” so I spent the weekend playing around the scene.  I did some simple color shifts using Photoshop but they didn’t really excite me (but I will add one or two of those to the Pickle Jar at a later date).   It wasn’t until I added some color contrast by changing the lighting and re-rendering that I felt the scene was actually improved.   

Let me know how you feel this new render compares to the original!  I’ll need to decide which to feature and which to store in the Pickle Jar but for now both versions are in the gallery.

Hypogeum

Posted on November 26, 2024

I’ve wanted to get back into working with Plant Factory for a while and recently took the opportunity open it back up.   The goal here was to create a luminous, abstract type scene with a fairly detailed central focus contrasting with a minimal environment.   Sometimes my scenes can get a little busy with too many details and I wanted to get away from that here.   I took advantage of Gaea2 for the surrounding environment and I’m looking forward to learning more of its many new features in 2025!

Hope you guys don’t mind all the purple images I’ve been making lately! 💜

Land’s End (Night)

Posted on November 15, 2024

Happy Friday!

As promised last time here’s a night version of “Land’s End“.   The natural indentation in the foreground cliff presented me with the opportunity to add some contrasting light to the scene and I very much like how this one turned out.   I hope you like it too!

Land’s End

Posted on November 13, 2024

More practice here incorporating photo-scanned objects into my VUE workflow.   The rest of the world has been using these types of 3D assets for years so it’s time I got with the program.     With “Coda” the goal was an intimate, small scene.   Here I’m trying to create something massive and epic.   I hope you enjoy it!

Already working on a night version 🌛