Posted on August 15, 2004

• If you’ve been following my work since the beginning, you’ll know that I am fascinated with Nebulae. I’ve been trying to faithfully recreate them for some time now, with varying levels of success. It’s rather difficult to do realistic billowing clouds using 3D software.

  I’ve been exploring a different approach to creating the stardust clouds, and I think the results look more 3D than my previous efforts. The render, “Firmament“, is now up on the new images page. A widescreen version is also available (it was actually designed as a widescreen image). I hope you enjoy it.

• Ian‘s first birthday is this coming Thursday (has it been a year already???). My parents are coming out from Illinois for the birthday party so I probably won’t get to do too much work during the upcoming week.

Posted on August 10, 2004

• I’ve added a dual and triple screen version of “Sunspire by Night”. The daytime version will take a little longer to render, but it’s coming.

Posted on August 9, 2004

• I’ve posted a nighttime version of “Sunspire” on the new images page. A widescreen version is also available. Yes, I am working on multi-monitor versions of both renders. The night version will probably be up first (it doesn’t take very long to render) and the sunlit version will follow a few days later. The widescreen version took around 3 days to render, so I imaging the triple screen version may take up to 5 or 6.

Posted on August 8, 2004

• I’ve posted a revised render of “Sunspire“. This version has better anti-aliasing (I sort of used a hack to get it to render faster last time) and contains a few extra elements to bring it in line with the nighttime version I am working on. A widescreen version is also available.

Posted on August 4, 2004

• I mentioned back in June that I would try to make some brighter images now and then. Quite a few of you told me that you preferred the darker screens (I seem to enjoy making them too), but I know a number of you have been growing impatient for something sunny and bright. I hope you folks enjoy my latest render, “Sunspire“, which I’ve just posted on the new images page.

  The rendering took far longer than I had anticipated (over 36 hours), or I would have had it up sooner. There are still a few things that I would like to tweak, but I think it looks good enough to share is it is now. Check back in a few days an I might have some changes up.