Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper
Posted on December 19, 2003
- LATE UPDATE:I worked a little more on the “Boughs of Holly” today, focusing on improving the look of the berries. Many of you correctly noted that they looked a little too “perfect”, so I’ve tried to make them look a little more realistic. I saw no need to keep the old version around, so I’ve simply overwrittenthe old files with the new.
- After working on “The Ride”, I thought it would be nice to do a holiday image with some color. I tinkered around with a few different ideas before I came up with something which, I hope, looks festive and fits the season. The new render, “Boughs of Holly” (as in “Deck the halls with…”), is up for your review on the new images page. I may fool around with it a little more over the weekend, but this will be my last new project until after Christmas. I hope you like it!
- Any of you thinking of purchasing my CD or a Calendar as a Christmas present might be interested to know that Cafepress is offering 2 day shipping for the price of standard shipping. Unfortunately, the deal only last through the end of today.
Posted on December 14, 2003
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From some of the emails I received last week, I got the impression that you dual-screen users were feeling left out as far as Holiday wallpapers were concerned. Sorry about that. As I’ve said time and again, creating dual-screen wallpapers is a lot more difficult than creating a widescreen (16 x 9) image. Most of my images would easily adapt to a widescreen frame, but very few of them work as dual-screens.
One that does work is my latest image, “The Ride 2003”. I spent the weekend adapting it for use as a dual-screen image, adding some more forest for the left side screen. The render is now up in the dual-screen gallery. I hope you like it. I promise I’ll try to adapt more of my work in 2004!
Posted on December 10, 2003
- LATE UPDATE: I’ve posted a new render of “The Ride” on the new images pages. I’ve made a couple of changes to the sky to try and get rid of the color banding for the earlier version and I’ve calmed the water in the lake a little so you can see more reflections. I’ve also made the sleigh and reindeer a little larger (but not much). An updated “riderless” version is also available in the Pickle Jar.
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One of my favorite Christmas renders has always been “The Ride” from 1998. I love the idea, but the execution left something to be desired. For example, the “forest” was made up of bare spikes (that was all Bryce could do) and Santa’s sleigh was a low-res alpha map. I’ve always thought that I could do better, and this year I decided it was time to try.
The new render is now up on the new images page. The image was produced using World Builder (which does really nice forests). I kept the sky from the original Bryce render, because I liked the ice ring, and I tried to keep the general composition the same. There’s also a version without Santa’s sleigh for those of you who prefer it that way.
I still have a few issues that I want to work out, but I think it looks nice enough to share. What do you think?
- I’ve also added two widescreen Christmas renders. “Blue Christmas (2002)” and “Spirit of the Season” are available in 1920 x 1200 in the Widescreen gallery.
Posted on December 3, 2003
- Just in time for Christmas, my CDROM has been updated to version 5. It is current up to today including my latest render, “Gaea”. New in this edition are the 1280 x 1024 renders, the 2560 x 1024 dual-screen files, and the split dual-screen files. I’ve added all this stuff, but the price remains the same ($14.95 for a copy with a jewel case and full-color insert, $10.95 for a copy with a plain paper sleeve). Makes a great stocking stuffer. Enjoy!