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Posted on October 29, 2022

Pinnacle (Dawn)

Living in the flattest part of the US has given me an endless fascination with mountains.   They are almost mystical to me.   Here I’ve used Gaea and VUE to create a restful mountain lake.   The foreground is almost a silhouette but it all will be revealed when the sun fully rises.

I initially created a day version but have decided to create and share the night version first. I hope you enjoy it!

Posted on October 15, 2022

City of the Dead -- Halloween 2022

With Spooky Season in full swing I thought it time to add something new to my Halloween gallery. This year I’ve chosen to revisit one of my favorite early renders, “City of the Dead” from 2000, which I originally created using World Builder.

The original was more of a tight shot of the cemetery but for this version I wanted to create a more expansive environment using VUE.

I hope you enjoy it and have a safe and happy Halloween!!

Posted on September 27, 2022

Connections

Sorry you haven’t heard from me for a little while here. I haven’t been idle. I’ve actually been working on two very different projects on my two workstations and both are ready to share around the same time. One is an abstract and the other a landscape. I will be sharing the landscape later this week.

This piece, which I’ve entitled “Connections”, is my latest experiment with SideFX Houdini.

Learning Houdini has been my biggest ongoing art project over the past year. It’s a big complicated beast of a program that is far different than anything I’ve ever used before. There’s a lot to learn but it is capable of creating scenes and geometry that would be very difficult to attempt using Blender or Lightwave. Even if my abstracts aren’t your favorite I hope you will be patient with me while I learn it because I feel like the skills will pay big dividends in my landscape/space imagery.

Stay tuned later in the week for a new landscape that I created on my “Shadowfax” workstation while this piece was rendering on “Rochallor“.