Posted on February 14, 2001

• Happy Valentine’s Day!

  Last Friday I went to work learning 3D Studio Max 4. It’s an incredibly complex program and it came with around 2000 pages of reading material. It’s going to take a little while before I’m up to speed with it.

  I wanted to post something this week so I decided to open up Vue d’Esprit and do some quick renders. One of them came out kind of nice and I’ve posted it for you today. I call it “Isla” and you can ckeck it out on the new images page. There are three other versions of this image available in the Picklejar.

Posted on February 8, 2001

• Added “Protostar” to the gallery today. This image is inspired by my recent re-discovery of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos”, which I picked up a month ago and am only now finding the time to watch. The colors were inspired by the excellent Hubble photo of the Orion Nebula. What do you think?

Posted on February 3, 2001

• After reading all of your suggestions (thank you!!) and doing a lot of experimentation, I’ve decided that “Hall of Kings” doesn’t really need anything new. My “final” version is now up on the New Images page. I’ve moved the camera a little closer to the light and I’ve added a human figure to impart a sense of scale. The two previous versions are still available in the Pickle Jar.

  Now I’m going to move on to something new.

• The PNG index is up to date with all of the images added since October.

Posted on January 29, 2001

• I’ve added another minor update to the image I posted yesterday. You’ll find it on the new stuff page. Both renders are also available inside the Pickle Jar. I’m still interested in your feedback!

Posted on January 28, 2001

• I’ve been working on a new project for the past couple of days. It’s to the point that I’d like a little feedback, but not to the point where I want to call it a finished work. Check it out here and let me know what you think, or wait a few days for the final render to appear on the new images page. Thanks!