Posted on December 21, 2009

• I’ve added “Song of the Sky (Yuletide)” to the free samples this morning. You can check out the rest of my Christmas wallpapers, including “The Ride (2009)” here. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and remember to send DB Gift Certificates to everyone on your list 😉

Posted on December 19, 2009

• I’ve added the dual and triple-screen versions of “The Ride (2009)” to the gallery this morning. I had to make some major adjustments to the scene to combat the barrel distortion that Vue adds when you widen the frame. It’s still there but I hope it isn’t too noticable!
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Posted on December 14, 2009

• After the new site went live I fired up Vue d’Esprit 8 and started in on a Christmas wallpaper. It was nice to work on some eye candy after staring at code for a week.

  My (first?) Christmas wallpaper for 2009 is an update to “The Ride”. I did the original way back in ’98 using spiky Bryce 3 terrains for the Trees. I did another version is 2003 using the now defunct (abandonware) “World Builder“.

  This new version uses Vue d’Esprit 8. It’s actually my first render using the new version that came out last month. I haven’t dug too deep into the new features, but I do think the clouds look a lot better with Vue 8 than they did in Vue 7.

  I may want to tweak a thing or two in this one so stop back. See the post from 12/6 if you are wondering where the Members Gallery went!

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Posted on December 11, 2009

• My new Christmas wallpaper is in the latest stage of development. I hope to have it up sometime this weekend (fingers crossed). While it renders I have been doing a bit of clean-up/tweaking to the new site.

  I’ve brought back the “Recent Comments” page so you can see which images have the most recent feedback. I’ve also fixed issue with the early (1997) images displaying a broken 1600 x 1200 link. It’s hard to believe there was a time when I only rendered at 1152 x 864. Now I produce over 33 different resolutions for each project!

  For the non-Member I have brought back the “Multi-Monitor Sample” image and I’ve replaced the old “Cosmogony” with “Tropical Moon”.

  Lastly, I’m putting out the call once more for photos of your multiscreen setups. Snap a pic and upload it directly to the DB Facebook Wall. You can see the ones that have already been posted here. I’d like to collect and host the coolest ones on a page here.

  The comments link below goes to the general thread that I’ve set up to handle feedback regarding the new site layout. Feel free to post if you are still having issues or just want to leave your opinion on the changes.

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Posted on December 7, 2009

• A few of items to note this morning. I am back working on a new wallpaper and DB is once again “Cooliris Compatible“. Cooliris is a cool browser plugin that will allow you to surf my images on a 3d “wall”. Enjoy!

  If you were subscribed to my RSS feed before (either the Free Images or Members Gallery) you will need to resubscribe to a new URL (since they are now combined). The address is http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/rss/db.xml. If you are signed up for email updates, and you received an update this morning, then you don’t need to do anything. If you didn’t get an email notice this morning you will need to re-add yourself to the mailing list. Instructions here.

  Now back to rendering…

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