Posted on May 11, 2008

• I’ve added my newest render, “Cloud Terrace“, to the gallery this evening. I’ve been tinkering with it for the past couple days and, while there are one or two things I may yet change, I think it’s ready for showing. I hope you enjoy it!

Posted on May 6, 2008

• Once again I’ve paused the animation render to work on a new still image. I was a little slow getting started because I caught whatever bug my son brought home with him from preschool last week. Ian brought it home, then Jason got it, then me. We’re all on the mend now thought and I hope to have a new render up in the next couple of days.
• I’d posted a picture of my workspace on Facebook last month, but some of you without Facebook accounts asked that I post it here. I’ve posted the pictures here if you are interested. Please pardon the mess!

Posted on May 2, 2008

• I had hoped to have my newest “Dreamscene” animation ready to post this afternoon, but after rendering all of my stills into a movie it looks like it needs still more work. My Fprime software allows you to “refine” your renders to higher quality so I don’t have to go back and start from scratch. I can just refine them further, but it’s still a lengthy process.

  The problem is noise, which in a static image isn’t really noticable but when the animation is running produces irritating shimmering effects in areas of the image which should be still. I’d hoped that rendering at a “medium” quality setting would result in a quick render, but the noise is unacceptable to me.

  I will probably shelve this for the time being and start working on another wallpaper this weekend. I can’t say when it will be ready because I haven’t started it yet, but hopefully sometime next week. Sorry for the delay though. Creating animated wallpaper is new to me and I am still learning how to do it well. I’d rather wait and post something excellent than post something substandard.

  I also wanted to draw your attention to the links on the left hand side of the page. I’ve replaced the long list of galleries with expandable menus. Just move your mouse over the “year” links and the “collections” link to see further options. Hopefully this will make navigating the gallery a little easier, or at least clean up the page a little.

Posted on April 24, 2008

• Added dual and triple screen versions of “Island Time” to the gallery this morning. I’m glad most of you seemed to like it!

  I’ve gotten a lot of requests in the past few months for triple widescreen images and I just wanted you all to know that I am going to start working on them. Look for 7680 x 1600 images to be added in the months ahead to fit multiple 30 inchers. I just need to go back and re-render some of the older images and then integrate them into the gallery.

Posted on April 21, 2008

• I did some calculations after I made my last post and discovered that my animation render wouldn’t be finished for at least another week. If I let the render go and waited until it was done to start working on a new “static” wallpaper, it could be in the two week range before I updated my gallery.

  I decided to pause the animation render and spend this weekend working on something new. My latest project, “Island Time”, is now up on the New Images page for your review. The title refers to the somewhat hazy definition of time that comes from dwelling in paradise. I hope you enjoy it.

  I plan on restarting new Dreamscene render as soon as I figure out how to widen “Island Time” to span multiple monitors.