Blue Bayou

Posted on October 3, 2023

Here’s a night version of “Autumn Bayou” that I created. I leaned heavily into the blue tones here to justify the cheeky title 😄

I hope you enjoy it. The render is in the gallery now but might find its way to the Pickle Jar later. Let me know where you think it belongs.

Autumn Bayou

Posted on September 25, 2023

Every year I like to add at least one new Autumn render to my gallery (usually during the later part of the year when Fall hits the northern hemisphere where I live) . I’ve rendered the changing trees in many different biomes but never a bayou, until now that is.

Created on “Shadowfax” while my main machine was rendering “Pallas“.

I hope you enjoy “Autumn Bayou” and feel free to share your feedback in the comments. I love to hear from you all 🙂

Pallas

Posted on September 19, 2023

Sticking with the space theme for the moment. I’ve had this image floating around in my mind for quite a while now but didn’t really have a good way to realize it until I learned more about Cinema4D’s Pyro system, which I used to simulate the steam vents.    I also used C4D to create the planet background but I used Gaea and VUE for the foreground.   The title, as with many of my planetscapes, comes from Greek mythology.   Pallas was the daughter of Triton and granddaughter of Poseidon.

I hope you enjoy it!

I created and rendered this one on Rochallor and have a new Autumn piece in the works on Shadowfax. Stay tuned!

Starbirth

Posted on September 12, 2023

Continuing my exploration of Cinema4D’s Pyro system for creating deep space nebulae.   This time I used Redshift for the rendering but sort of wish I’d used Octane as the sim proved to be too much for my GPU.   Fortunately “Rochallor” is a 96 core CPU rendering beast 😄 This is the latest entry in a series of images that I started in 2001 using Lightwave (w/3D geometry) and continued in 2008 (using Lightwave “Hypervoxel” volumetrics). I hope you enjoy it!!

Elysium (Night)

Posted on September 5, 2023

As promised, here’s a moonlit version of “Elysium” with some fireflies added to brighten the foreground. I also adjusted the color of the longer grass to allow it to pick up more moonlight. The bluebird has returned to its nest for the evening though.

I hope you enjoy it. Going to be working with C4D for my next piece so be patient as it’s more of a learning experience for me as opposed to working with VUE!