Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper
Posted on April 23, 2005
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After many long days of rendering and re-rendering, I think my latest image is in good enough shape to share. It’s called “The Watchtower” and it’s now up on the new images page (widescreen also available). As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I’ve been working with Vue 5’s new “Ecosystems” which allow you to render immense forests. There are over 20 billion polygons in this image, and it only took something like 15 hours to render at 2560 x 1600. In contrast, Lightwave chokes on a few million polys. Impressive.
Anyway, I think I’ve played with this one long enough. I hope you like it.
Posted on April 21, 2005
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I apologize for being out of touch for the past couple of weeks. I’ve been busy trying to learn the ins and outs of the new Vue d’Esprit. Specifically I am working with the new “Ecosystems” feature which I hope may decrease my dependence on World Builder.
I do have a new image in the works and I had hoped to have it ready before the end of the this week but it is now looking like it will be a little late. Hopefully it will be up before Monday.
Posted on April 7, 2005
- I’ve spent the past couple of days playing with Vue 5 Infinite and tweaking “Endless Blue”. An updated version is now available on the new images page A couple of things are different here. I’ve moved the islands back and increased their size (you’ll notice the palms are much smaller in relation to the rocks now). I’ve also used Vue 5’s powerful new function editor to add some foam and wet sand effects to the shoreline.
Posted on April 5, 2005
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My copy of Vue d’Esprit 5 Infinite arrived over the weekend so I thought I would sit down and play with some of the incredible new features. Strangely enough, I ended up creating an image that didn’t use any of the new features. Maybe next time. The image is called “Endless Blue” and I’ve posted it on the New Images page this morning. I hope you like it.
Just to give credit where credit is due: some of the ideas here came from helping Jessie with her very first Vue d’Esprit image. She is actually very artistic (probably more than I am) but she’s never used 3d software. Perhaps someday you will see a gallery of her work on DB.
As for Vue 5 Infinite, they’ve made it a lot easier to create grand forests and complex scenes. I’m looking forward to pushing the program to its limits. For “Endless Blue”, however, I felt that less would be more. I hope you agree.