Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper

Posted on July 12, 2023

Oasis (Dawn)

After starting out with a night version of my “Oasis” update I knew I wanted to also do a day version. I was playing around with different atmospheres and found that I really liked this dawn setting. I may yet do one more with a deep blue sky to match the original 1999 version. Created and rendered on Shadowfax.

I hope you enjoy it!

Posted on July 10, 2023

Oasis (Moonlight)

The goal here was to update my Oasis theme (started in 1999, updated in 2009) using Gaea and new plant models.  I tried to keep the composition as similar as possible to the earlier versions but hopefully it feels new.   I’ll attempt a day version next.

​​​​​​​Created on my Shadowfax workstation while another project rendered on Rochallor.   Hopefully that one finishes soon!

Posted on June 29, 2023

Caldera

Here’s another fun project I created using Gaea. Again, as with “Galatea“, my goal here was to better learn texturing in Gaea to create a colorful abstract landscape. I haven’t created anything quite like this in a while and I hope you enjoy it!

Posted on June 23, 2023

Sunbeam Rock

Been tweaking this one for a bit too long so it’s time to just let go. Experimenting here with VUE’s sunbeams interacting with objects on the ground. Colors are a bit more muted than my normal work but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

Posted on June 16, 2023

Fire in the Sky

A simple sky study that I created using VUE on my trusty (8 year old!) Shadowfax workstation while Rochallor rendered another project.    I’ve long been fascinated with how the sun illuminates clouds from below the horizon but it’s tricky to depict this using 3D as most 3D scenes use a flat world.   Here I used VUE’s “spherical scene” mode to move the sun below the horizon and light the cloud layers from below.   The foreground is kept intentionally minimal.

I hope you enjoy it! Stay tuned for another new piece soon!!

EDIT: I’ve added a version to the Pickle Jar without the dock by popular request!