Silver Night

Posted on January 20, 2025

The moonlit companion to “Golden Morning“.    My Rochallor workstation went down over the weekend due to a mystery ailment and I was fortunate to save these renders off of the data drive.   

Was torn between going with a bluish moon and an orange one.   In the end felt the bluish tone made a nice contrast to the sunrise version.  What do you think?? 🤔

Going to try reviving Rochallor with a new boot drive today. Wish me luck!!

Golden Morning

Posted on January 17, 2025

Happy Friday! January is usually the month I stop thinking about creating winter scenes and grow weary of the cold.   The only tonic for it is to create a nice warm tropical scene.   They are like comfort food for me artistically and I hope you don’t mind me returning to the tropics from time to time.

Beacon (Night)

Posted on January 10, 2025

Happy Friday!

I thought it would be fun to create a darker, night version of my updated “Beacon” for those folks who prefer the night-mode desktops.   I still wanted to go with the red and blue theme but have lowered the sunlight angle and intensity dramatically.   Maybe only one of these belongs in the gallery and the other in the Pickle Jar?   What do you think?? 

Beacon (2025)

Posted on January 8, 2025

I was recently preparing a “Throwback Thursday” post on social media and I came across “Beacon” from 1998.   As sometimes happens when I look at those old projects I started thinking about how I might do things differently with my current toolset.    I used Plant Factory to create the beacon this time because it excels at radial modeling.   I used Gaea2.0 for the environment and VUE for the render.   The camera setup is a bit different this time around but I wanted this scene to hint at a larger story than the original. 

I hope you enjoy it!

PS: Have you joined the Digital Blasphemy Discord server?? DB Members can now connect their DB accounts with their Discord accounts. Your Membership status will display on the server (your name will be color coded) and in the future I hope to have comments made on images here be mirrored on Discord to hopefully stoke more discussion. We are thinking up other ways to leverage Discord and welcome any ideas from folks who use it more than I do.

The DB API is open for testing!

Posted on January 3, 2025

I’m very pleased to announce that the Digital Blasphemy API (Application Programming Interface) is ready for public testing! I’d written a simple API for DB 1.0 that allowed for the creation of mobile apps and integration into third party programs like Display Fusion and Multimonitor Wallpaper. That system, unfortunately, broke when I moved to this new platform.

Cris has been working very hard for the past couple of months to create a new API that will work with DB 2.0 and it’s now finally ready to show the world! The API will allow developers to access and display my entire gallery as well as enable the posting of reviews and ratings by Members. Membership creation and management will still go through this site however.

We’ve created a sandbox website for you to practice with (use your DB credentials to login).

The documentation for the API can be found here.

An API endpoint for testing can be found here.

I’m excited to see what folks create with this. DB 2.0 works pretty well on mobile now but this opens up the possibility of a new mobile app. We shall see. I know lots of folks are wanting my work to be available through Display Fusion again and this is what will make it possible.

More information will be available soon but if you are a developer please feel free to dig in!