Posted on November 24, 2008

• A few items to mention this evening. First, I’ve posted a new wallpaper. It’s called “At World’s Edge” and it’s basically a project did to familiarize myself with the new features in Vue 7. I hope you like it.

  Secondly, I’ve added some new resolution choices. I’ve gotten many many emails from folks asking if I could provide 1680 x 1050 and 1440 x 900 resolutions and I’ve always just posted 1920 x 1200 images and hoped that folks would use their OSs scaling feature. Then I looked at my web logs and noticed that more people are surfing DB using 1680 x 1050 than any other widescreen resolution. Seems kind of silly not to offer it as an option. I’ve thrown in a 1440 x 900 option for folks using that resolution as well.

  I’ve also added 480 x 320 images to the mobile resolutions (to support the new Blackberry Bold). I’d like to post 360 x 480 images in the future (to support the Blackberry Storm) but I need to see how much hand cropping and tweaking will need to be done in order for my images to look decent.

  All of the new resolutions are available in zip files for easy downloading here. Enjoy!

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Posted on November 20, 2008

• I’ve posted a new dual-widescreen version of “A New Dawn” this morning. The framing is now more in line with the other multi-screen renders. Hope this one works for everyone!

Posted on November 18, 2008

• I’ve made a change to my Gift Memberships which could save folks quite a bit of money this holiday season. Thousands of people have purchased gift memberships for friends and family over the past 10 years but now it’s even more economical.

  I’ve made it so you will get an increasing discount based on the number of gift certificates you buy. Buy 2 gift memberships and you will receive 10% off the total price. Buy 3 and get 15% off, 4 and get %20 percent off, up to 30% off if you purchase 6 gift memberships. You could get a Lifetime Membership for only $69 or a 1 year membership for only $17.50.

  Happy Holidays!

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Posted on November 17, 2008

• I’ve added dual and triple screen versions of “A New Dawn” to the gallery this morning. It was something of a challenge to reframe this one for multi-screen and I hope you guys approve of the solution I settled on.
• Those interested in purchasing “A New Dawn” as a poster print will find it here in my Zazzle collection.

Posted on November 15, 2008

• Ok, I think I’m done tinkering now. As I mentioned last time, I wanted to rework “A New Dawn” using some of the new tools available to me in the latest version of Vue d’Esprit (released just last week). The new version is up now (the old version will remain available in the Pickle Jar).

  What’s different? Most noticably, the water now has “real” waves rather than being a flat plane. Beyond looking more realistic, the new waves (I think) can be animated which opens up some new avenues for animated wallpaper.

  I’ve also replaced the clouds with Vue’s new cloud technology (“Spectral 2.0”). This took quite a bit of tweaking, but I think these clouds look a little less chunky than the old ones. The lighting is also a little better (IMO) in this version, with a bit of the left side of the cave visable.

  All in all, I’m very pleased with the new version of Vue and I can’t wait to apply what I’ve learned to some brand new scenes. Expect a multi-screen version shortly and then it’s onward and upward.

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