Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper
Posted on May 2, 2005
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Happy Monday everyone. I hope to have one or two new files up for you shortly. I have a multi-monitor version of “The Watchtower” nearly done and a night version as well (haven’t decided if it will be Pickle Jar render or not). I will be starting on a new project as soon as they are both up.
I would have started a new project sooner but my merchant bank dropped a bomb on me last week, informing me that I have to upgrade all of my credit card processing scripts to their new API or they would stop working. So I’ve been coding for the past several days.
The scripts are all upgraded now (the changes should be transparent to anyone using them) and after these extra renders are done I will start in on something new. Please subscribe to my RSS Feed if you want to be notified when I have a new wallpaper up. Just F.Y.I. . . .
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.