Posted on April 24, 2000

• “Palisade” is new today in the Day Scenery Gallery. It should be familiar to you if you’ve checked out the “pickles” for Idyilic (specifically idyllic2.

Posted on April 20, 2000

• I was never really happy with where I left “Neptune’s Garden”. I liked the over all environment, but I didn’t like the columns and fish that I had added (see neptune4.jpg in the Picklejar). They added some contrast to the scene, but I thought they looked too fake. Yesterday I started reworking the image, essentially scrapping everything but the lighting from the first version. You can find the new render on the “New Images” page and in the Underwater Gallery. If you have any comments, be sure to send them my way.

Posted on April 19, 2000

• I’ve added 1600 x 1200 versions of “Brainstorm” and “Snowtop“.

  I also unearthed an old Bryce render that I’m sure you haven’t seen yet. I don’t know why I never posted this back when I created it last May. The image is titled, simply, “Gecko” and you can check it out in the 1999 Day Scenery Gallery. The Gecko model came off of the Ray Dream Studio CD-ROM. Yes, the gecko does have a mouth, it’s just hard to see 🙂

Posted on April 13, 2000

• I decided “Companion Star” could use a little more tweaking. The new version (IMHO) melds the best elements of the 2nd and 3rd versions. What do you think?

Posted on April 12, 2000

• Thanks to all of you who shared their thoughts on “Threesome”. It looks like (as usual) Jessie was right. The dark version is by far more popular.

  Immediately after posting “Threesome” I set to work on a new space image. The result is “Companion Star”, which is available now on the New Images page. This image has gone through a lot of tweaking, and you can see some of the early renditions in the Picklejar. I’m sure opinions will differ on whether my tweaking was effective. Please feel free to share your thoughts.