Morrow Grove (Spring)

Posted on February 2, 2025

Around the end of February my thoughts (and the requests from Members) turn to Springtime renders.    My first Spring render of 2025 is an adaptation of “Morrow Grove“.   Added some green foliage and flowers and have generally turned the dark “forest of death’ from “Night Terror” into a sunny slice of nascent life.    I hope you enjoy it!

Outland

Posted on February 2, 2025

This piece was born from my working to learn how to create nebulae in Blender.   The process is a quite a bit different than using C4D so I wanted to explore it a bit.    Once I had the result I liked (after much tweaking and rendering using Cycles) I set about creating a foreground world using GAEA2 and VUE. 

The result is a somber, half-lit world but I hope it makes for a nice background on your desktop.

Morrow Grove

Posted on February 2, 2025

Had to be at my Shadowfax workstation for an extended period recently while Rochallor rendered something else and I created this scene.   The sharp-eyed among you will recognize it as the woods from “Night Terror” with the spookier elements removed and lit by morning sunlight.

I decided to add a bit of patchy snow even though it’s the middle of winter right now (we haven’t had much snow here where I live).   Forests can have many different personalities and I wanted to express the happier side of this one.    I hope you enjoy it!

All Good Things (Night Mode)

Posted on February 2, 2025

I had originally wanted to use my blue and red “Singularity” render for my “from the ground” view but I felt like it work better if the scene was more brightly lit.   I know some folks prefer darker wallpapers though so I’ve put together this “night mode” view with the original black hole and more subdued lighting. 

Let me know which you prefer and I might just put the other one in the Pickle Jar.

All Good Things

Posted on February 2, 2025

After creating my new version of “Singularity” I knew I wanted to try a scene observing it from a nearby world.   I’d already done something sort of similar with “Samsara” and I didn’t want to replicate that.   Instead I went for a more natural, terrestrial type scene teetering on the verge of annihilation.   Yes, I’m sure a scene like this probably couldn’t exist due to its proximity to the singularity but I hope you will excuse my artistic license (once again).

I found that the blue/red version of my black hole didn’t really work for what I wanted to depict here so I rendered a new version with more uniform coloring.   If I do a darker version I might still use the original.   I’ll post that other version of Singularity in the Pickle Jar shortly after I render a multiscreen version.