Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper
Posted on November 28, 2015
“Pyre (Christmas)“
Every so often I like to change the profile pic on my Facebook Page and about a week ago I decided to use “Pyre“. One of my fans saw the post and suggested “adding some red into the mix” to give it a more Christmas look.
That gave me the idea to take it a step or two further. I’ve reworked the particle emitters to create a more festive effect 🙂
I hope you like it! This is the first of a number of Christmas images that I have planned for the next month or so, in addition to working on some new space scenes.
In other news, version 2.1 of the iOS app is nearly ready for release. This next version will add (among other things) better error reporting and the ability to download any image size (rather than just mobile versions). It should be a fun month ahead!
Cyber Monday!
As some of you may already know, I have stopped offering discounts on Memberships. I was starting to feel like a carnival barker screaming out “30% off, no 40% off! Save Big Money!!”. If you’ve been wanting one of the many excellent products are available featuring my artwork however, now is a great time to buy 🙂
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Posted on November 19, 2015
“Winter Cliffs“
After setting up a winter version of “Autumn Revelation” I was all but obligated to pull the camera back and render a winter version of the “Autumn Cliffs” view. This one rendered in 55 hours at 7680 x 4320 on my Bucephalus workstation.
There are canvas and poster versions available too! I rendered this one for single-screen first and the multiscreen version is rendering now on Bucephalus.
Posted on November 13, 2015
“Winter Revelation“
I know a lot of you aren’t nearly ready for winter yet (I know I’m not) but, as the Starks have said, it’s coming. My first snowy render of the year is the winter version of “Autumn Revelation“. I was pretty happy with the cloud setup in the autumn version, but managed to tweak them a bit so they wouldn’t look exactly the same (since this pic is supposed to be a whole new season). The evergreens have kept their needles but the colorful trees have dropped their leaves.
Posted on November 9, 2015
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Posted on October 27, 2015
A couple of new additions to the gallery to mention this morning…
“Autumn Revelation“
There are many advantages to being a 2D artist over a 3D artist. One of the major ones (that makes me jealous) is that there is really no limit to how complex your scenes/objects can be because you only have to draw one side of them. Setting up complex scenes in 3D requires a bit more work, but one advantage of 3D art is that once that work is done I am able to move my camera/lights around the scene and capture different views almost like Ansel Adams hiking through his own personal Yosemite.
That’s what I’ve done with “Autumn Revelation“. I’ve moved the camera closer to the shore and I’ve replaced the reddish tones in the atmosphere with blusish ones. I’ve also added some foreground mist and shorted the evergreen trees by half. I previewed my render to the folks in the Private Facebook Group and they almost unanimously demanded that it have a gallery spot of its own.
I hope you enjoy it! Multiscreen users check back in a day or so as I created this one (on my single-screen Bucephalus workstation) as a single-screen wallpaper first. Old habits die hard…
Check out the rest of my Autumn here!
“Visitation“
“A Sincere Pumpkin Patch” was my homage to Charles Schultz’s classic. Of course part of the magic of the “The Great Pumpkin” is that he exists only in Linus’ imagination. I thought it would be fun to render at least one “flight of fancy” that might have occured while he sat his vigil in the pumpkin-patch. Here is one such vision…
The jack-o-lantern was modeled using Zbrush (though most of the details ended up getting glared out). The vines were modeled using e-on’s wonderful Plant Factory. Yes, I know it’s a little over-the-top but Halloween only comes once per year.
Not sure if I will add more “tricks of the imagination”. Let me know what you think!