Posted on July 14, 2020

The Flourish

Multi-Screen Render

I created this abstract in Plant Factory to learn how to do some things with E-On’s function editor that I could only do in Lightwave before. There’s a lot of power there that I haven’t really tapped yet. Be on the lookout for Pickle Jar and/or alternate versions of this one if I am able to some more interesting techniques.

I hope you enjoy it!

Posted on July 8, 2020

Dragon Teeth

I was looking through my old Vue files a few weeks ago on Bucephalus and found this empty canyon that I’d modeled using Zbrush back in the Aughts. Pretty sure I didn’t get around to rendering it at the time because it was going to monopolize my rendering for over a week. The mesas eventually become “Shrouded Desert” but this was my original scene.

Well, the render time only went up when I populated the canyon with trees but I decided that I did not mind since I now have two other machines I can work on. I have quite a few of these old scenes that I never finished so that could be another job for Bucephalus.

Posted on July 5, 2020

Evening Light

Multi-Screen Render

For the night version I played around with changing the light angle, but I think the scene looks best this way. It wasn’t too difficult to convert the sunlight to moonlight. Getting the moonbeams to look right gave me some ideas about tinkering with the morning version actually. We’ll see…

Posted on July 3, 2020

Morning Light (2020)

Multi-Screen Render

My landscape program of choice right now is Vue d’Esprit and my very expensive yearly subscription to their software includes access to a library of excellent plant models specially designed to work with Vue. I usually like to feature plants that I’ve modeled myself but I would be remiss if I did not do a few renders featuring their excellent work. This is one such project, evoking an old favorite from 2000.

What do you think? Should I do more like this? Feel free to discuss here and also on the New Digital Blasphemy Discord Server. Created and rendered on “Shadowfax“.

Posted on June 28, 2020

Gazebo (Nightfall)

Multi-Screen Render

My original vision for “Gazebo (2020)” was a bit darker and more high contrast than what eventually came to be. After initially setting things I up I asked Jessie how she felt about it. She told me she wanted to see something sunnier and happier. That’s just how she is 🙂

Of course I was crushed but went with her suggestions because I knew I would still have a night version to play around with. Did something a bit different for this one though. Vue only allows one light source to effect the sky so to get realistic planet glow around all three celestial objects I rendered the scene three separate times with the light sourced moved and the color changed. I then combined the three renders using Photoshop. The things you can do when you have more than one decent machine 🙂

I hope you enjoy it!!