Digital Blasphemy | 3D Wallpaper
Posted on August 29, 2020
Taiga
Multi-Screen Render
It’s hard for me to play around in Gaea without wanting to take the mesh into VUE for a full landscape render. For this scene I used VUE’s “spherical landscape” model to (hopefully) more accurately model predawn sunlight on a mountain top. I used some tricks to fake it in “Oasia (Dawn)” 🙂
This might be another good candidate for the dynamic wallpaper treatment, but I will admit that I haven’t seen what it looks like during the day yet.
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Posted on August 21, 2020
Oasia (Dawn)
Multi-Screen Render
This is probably the last in my “Oasia” time-of-day sequence. Adding the fog bumped up the render time into the 5hr mark, vs 30 minutes for the cloudless versions but I think the effect was worth it here. I know not everyone is going to use these as dynamic wallpaper but I hope you’ve enjoyed the different views as much as I’ve enjoyed creating them.
PS: If I do something like this again I will certainly leave the moons out of the sky as they made the whole thing immensely more complicated 🙂
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Posted on August 20, 2020
Oasia (Dusk)
Multi-Screen Render
Another in my “Oasia” time of day sequence. I might do more more (Dawn?) and then maybe do some slight pickle jar variations of each to make a proper “dynamic wallpaper” that will change through the day.
Posted on August 18, 2020
Oasia (Noon)
Multi-Screen Render
When Rob Jonson (developer of the Mac app “Multimonitor Wallpaper”) contacted me about integrating my work into his app, he also mentioned another app he was working on that leverages the new “dynamic wallpaper” abilities of MacOS. He wanted to know if I could render a series of images at different times of day.
Normally I only make a day and a night version but he said I would need at least three to make it work so here’s a “noon” version of “Oasia’. I may do one more (dusk? twilight?) and I’m not sure if I will keep all of them in the main gallery or not. Let me know what you think
Posted on August 17, 2020
Oasia (Night)
Multi-Screen Render
For the night version of “Oasia” I wanted to try a few different things. Obviously this scene could be lit a million different ways so that is essentially what I chose to do ;-0 The tree models I used in the original all included “fruit” that could be lit up for an interesting night time effect.
I wanted also the dunes lit from a few different angles with different lights to show off their shapes. This one certainly looks better in a dark room on a bigger screen. I hope you guys will check it out that way and not just on your phone 🙂
Looping Animations
I also wanted to mention that I’ve converted the old MPG files for my looping “animated wallpapers” to the more modern MP4 format used by Zoom virtual backgrounds. Members can download them here. Example below. I will try to make some more if you guys are interested!