Posted on November 12, 2012

Vue 11 finally includes the ability to populate ecosystems on all sides of an object (previously they could only grow “on the top” of an object).

I immediately thought of Christmas lights.

Anyway, it was a bit more complicated than simply clicking a button but after much trial and error rendering (on my Asfaloth laptop no less) I think I am getting closer to happy.

Let me know what you think!

Posted on November 9, 2012

So many of you enjoyed the “zombie-less” version of “Sleepwalkers” that I put in the Pickle Jar that I thought it might be worthwhile to create a winter version for the Members Gallery.

I left the zombies out of this one but they may show up in the Pickle Jar later (“White Walker” style?).

I rendered this one using the new version of Vue d’Esprit. Vue 11 comes with a particle system for rendering snow/rain effects, but I used my old method here (a “snow object” ecosystem). For some reason I couldn’t get the new Vue snow to be as dense as I wanted. I will play around with it some more though

Let me know what you think!

Posted on November 2, 2012

I’ve added my 2012 version of “Winterborn” to the Members Gallery this morning. I actually put this one together a few weeks ago, but it seemed too early in the Autumn season (here in the Northern Hemisphere) to post such frosty wallpaper.

It’s probably still a bit too early but I think this one turned out nicely and it has never been in my nature to “sit on” a wallpaper.

Here’s the 2001 version if you are interested. I always thought the original render was a bit dark so I wanted this version to be brighter and have a little more “magic”.

I hope you guys enjoy it!!

Posted on October 26, 2012

One of the problems of using “pre-release” software is that the possibility of show-stopping bugs. I ran smack into one of these with the new version of Vue 11.

I came up with a nice winter update to “Green & Gold” and even managed to render a first draft. Unfortunately, the software crashed as I was making revisions and now (for some strange reason) I am unable to open my scene file. I’ve contacted the developers about the problem but I haven’t heard back yet.

I’m not sure I will ever be able to reopen this file to do any more work on it, and I don’t have the hear to redo everything from scratch right now. Rather than sit on the render I have decided to post it in the Pickle Jar so the interested Members can check it out.

There are still quite a few issues to work out so please be gentle in your critiques 😉

Posted on October 22, 2012

Quite a few Members wanted to see what “Sleepwalkers would look like without the zombies. Leaving them out makes the title a bit nonsensical but it does expand the uses for the wallpaper beyond Halloween.

I’ve added a new version (which I have dubbed “Nosleepwalkers”) to the Pickle Jar this morning. I left the crows however 😉

Which do you prefer?