Posted on April 29, 2004

• I’m still waiting for my copy of Lightwave 8 to arrive. In the meantime, as I mentioned before, I’ve been working on improving “Geode”. After many lengthy rendering sessions I’ve decided that it’s time to post what I have an move on to something else. Perhaps I’ll return to it later.

  My most current render is up on the New Images page. I’ve posted a couple of extra renders in the Pickle Jar. The changes between each version are very subtle. I’ve tried to add a little “fire” to the crystals and to break up the blue with some different colors.

  I’ll post a Widescreen version in the next couple of days (hopefully a dual-screen too). Thanks for being patient!

Posted on April 24, 2004

• I’m still working on revising “Geode” (thanks for all the feedback!). While my previews are rendering, I’ve taken the time to work on a little side project. People have been asking me for a while now to convert some of my work into Pocket PC themes so a few days ago I took the plunge a picked up an Ipaq to see what all would be involved. So far I’ve converted 38 of my images (selected from 2003, 2004 and a few older favorites) into Themes.

  I haven’t integrated them into the gallery yet, but you can download the zipped collection now (file size[an error occurred while processing this directive]) . If you have any thoughts or feedback about the themes, please feel free to drop me a line. Let me know if you think it’s worth doing more of them.

Posted on April 22, 2004

• I’ve added “Geode” to the gallery this morning. Hopefully you will see what I mean when I said that this was a “complex” image. I think this is one where the thumbnail doesn’t really do it justice. There are well over a million crystals in the scene.

  I’m still tinkering with this one, and I expect my copy of Lightwave 8.0 to arrive in the mail any day now. LW 8 may offer a few new tricks which I will want to try out. In the meantime, I think the image is at least ready to share and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Enjoy!

Posted on April 20, 2004

• I just wanted to chime in and mention that I am putting the finishing touches on a new wallpaper. It’s a pretty complex image, so it takes a while to render, but I hope to have it ready in the next couple of days.

Posted on April 13, 2004

• I’ve added a widescreen version of “California Poppies” to the gallery this morning. I don’t think this image would convert well to a dual-screen format so I won’t be making one this time.