Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper

Posted on August 1, 2016

Thunderhead

I was born and raised in central Illinois, which is very flat country (flattened by a glacier 10,000 years ago), and cumulonimbus clouds are our versions of mountains. I first attempted to model one back back in 1999 using texture mapped spheres. This version with 2016 technology uses Vue’s Spectral 2 clouds.

Posted on July 26, 2016

Class M

First off I would like to mention that for the first time in 10 years, DB is living on a new server. I’ve been working hard migrating the site to the new box over the past week and I think I’ve ironed out most of the bugs. The new machine will give me a platform to hopefully create a whole new site soon!

When I wasn’t tinking with my code I was creating a new render. I recently finished the excellent “Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown and his vision of a terraformed Mars inspired me to create this piece. I used Vue d’Esprit’s “spherical” terrains and dug deep into the cloud editor to create this render.

There was one location from the books in particular that I wanted to recreate and this piece could be considered a warmup for that 🙂 I hope you enjoy it!