Posted on April 8, 2007

• Happy Easter everyone! Just a quick update today. I am still trying to render out the multi-screen version of “Snowy Creek Springtime”. I’m not sure why, but this version is taking forever to render even though it isn’t that much larger than the single screen version. It’s been rendering since Tuesday and doesn’t look like it will be complete any time soon.

  In the past I would have rendered it on my old machine and worked on something new, but since my new machine is 64-bit with 8 GB of RAM the projects I create on it cannot be rendered on any of my old systems. I’m stuck waiting.

  My time has not totally been wasted however. Yesterday I posted nearly 70 3840 x 1200 images designed to fit dual-widescreen (1920 x 1200) systems. You’ll find them in the dual-screen gallery or download them all in a Zip file from the downloads page.

  If you find that my multi-screen images do not perfectly fit your combination of screens you may need to do some cropping, cutting, and/or resizing. Paint.Net is a great (free) image editor and is definitely worth a look.

Posted on March 31, 2007

• Before I converting “Snowy Creek Springtime” to multi-monitor, I wanted to make sure the single screen version was completely happy with it. Some of you commented that “bottom half” of the image needed some work so I’ve spent the past few days trying some different things. I’ve removed the moss and (inspired by all of the raid we’ve had this week) raised the water level in the creek. I’ve also tweaked the grass and flower colors a bit.

  I think I’m happy with it now and I’ve posted a new version for your review. The old version is still available in the Pickle Jar. I hope to have a multi-monitor version up sometime next week.

Posted on March 26, 2007

• I added “Snowy Creek Springtime” to the gallery this morning. I’d hoped to have it ready before I left on my “mini-vacation” last Thursday, but the render was taking longer than I had anticipated. I returned last night and the render was finished. A lot of you had asked if I could do a Spring version of Snowy Creek so I hope you enjoy it!

• I spent the weekend in west Texas with an old friend of mine. We visited Big Bend National Park and the Carlsbad Caverns (we even saw the “Marfa Lights“). Really awe inspiring stuff and lots of inspiration! I would definitely recommend that everyone put the Carlsbad Caverns on their “Must-Visit” list. It was truly like nothing I had ever seen before. I would also recommend that anyone visiting Big Bend also stop by the Starlight Theatre in Terlingua (great food and hospitality!).

  I’ve put a few photos here if you are interested (taken with my trusty digital Elph). I would have taken a million pictures inside the cave, but without a tripod most of my shots were very blurry. Ah well, great memories!

Posted on March 13, 2007

• Added “Xenotron” to the gallery this afternoon. I wanted to try something a little different this time and get some practice with the latest beta version of Lightwave. Hope you like it!
• If you’ve ever been interested how the image ratings are computed, you can now click on the score (after you’ve voted of course) to see how the rating breaks down.

Posted on March 3, 2007

• I’ve added dual and triple-screen versions of “Crucible” (planet only). I may get to do a version with lava but I would rather work on some other projects first.