Dreamcatcher

Posted on April 4, 2025

“Rings” was one of the original images in my gallery and I created sometime around 1995 using 2D tools.   Folks have often asked me to update it over the years.   Recently I saw a design (on a shampoo bottle of all places) that inspired me to go back to the concept.   I used Cinema4D here and the entire scene is comprised thousands of ellipses and spheres repeated symmetrically.    Jessie thought it looked like a spirograph design and it sort of does, but where that method using continuous lines here I am simply using cloned loops.   

Anyway, it’s been something I’ve wanted to try for a while and I hope you enjoy it!

Colony (Night)

Posted on March 3, 2025

Before I move on to other projects I wanted to take one last look at Colony, imagining how it might look once the sun has gone down with some bioluminescence.     Which version do you prefer?   Should one go in the Pickle Jar??

Colony

Posted on March 3, 2025

While I was creating “Androecia” I played with the idea of having the nodes emitting a stream of rising “bubbles”.   I ultimately decided against it but decided to take the project a step further and create something in the vein of an undersea organism that would exhibit such behavior.   Yeah, I know it’s kind of a strange image but I hope you will indulge me 😄

Once again, created using Plant Factory.  Thanks to Jessie for helping me come up with a fitting title.   It does bear some resemblance to my original “Colony” from 2004.

Androecia

Posted on March 3, 2025

Happy Friday! I’ve been wanting to get back into using Plant Factory for procedural modeling and here’s a simple abstract experiment I created with it.   I thought to render this using Redshift but I ending up liking the results from VUE better.   I may still play around with it (or some variant) in C4D though.

Kinda different but I hope you enjoy it!

Giantswood (Moonlight)

Posted on March 3, 2025

Happy Friday! Here’s a blue moonlit version of “Giantswood” for those folks who prefer darker desktops.    Yes, I exaggerated the moonbeams a little but I felt it necessary to provide some contrast to the scene and keep it from being too dark.     

Which version do you prefer? 🤔

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