Posted on June 7, 2002

• I get between 50-100 submissions per week for the User Gallery. Of those, I usually post less than 10. Of those that I reject, it is a good bet that up to half of them are cheesy looking “Photoshop Swirls”. It seems to be a genre all its own.

  Anyway, I looked through my gallery to see if I had done any these in my early days. I didn’t find anything (except for maybe this) so I decided to try my hand. I wanted mine to have a more multi-layered, 3D look (and not use any Photoshop filters).

  The result is up now on the new images page. I couldn’t think of a good name for it until Jessie suggested “Not Titled”. From that I settled on “Null”. Hope you like it. Comments welcome.

Posted on June 6, 2002

• Just wanted to chime in and say that my new project should be up before the end of the week.

Posted on June 3, 2002

• I’ve added two alternately colored versions of “Cobalt Daisy” (a “Fire Daisy” and an “Emerald Daisy”) to the Pickle Jar.

Posted on May 31, 2002

• Added “Cobalt Daisy” to the gallery today. I created this one to test out the integration between the new Xfrog 3.5 and Lightwave (verdict: thumbs up!).
• Some of you have written asking if there was mailing list to notify you when I update the gallery. The answer is yes. Member Rus Foster has graciously set up a mailing list which will inform you within the hour when I post a new render in the members gallery. You can sign up at his web site.

Posted on May 25, 2002

• It took a little longer to render than I had anticipated (30 hours!) but the new version of “Atoll” is now up on the new images page. I’ve added some “under-greenery” to the Atoll itself, hopefully making the whole scene look a little more natural. I may tweak this a bit more (there are still some things I don’t like) but the render might take a while. Hopefully you will find this version an improvement over the first.