Posted on January 29, 2019

Breath of Spring

For the record, I created this scene back in September 2018. I held onto it thinking I would come back and make some revisions.

Fast-forword to January 2019 and this past week I’ve been working on something dark that pretty much reflects my mood atm with regard to Illinois in the wintertime. I looked at that image, which I was planning on posting today, and decided to hold off. It might accurately reflect my mood, but with a new Polar Vortex bearing down on us I felt the need to post something warmer.

I was hoping it would be the second in my Hawaiian inspired series but that render was lost to a crash earlier in the week. Re-rendering that one now!

This scene was an experiment with learning Plant Factory’s new “Flower Node”. If I had to do this one over I would probably cut back on the depth-of-field a bit 🙂 I hope you enjoy it and stay warm (or cool) wherever you are!

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Posted on January 17, 2019

Mauka

The Hawaiian islands just might be my favorite place on Earth and we were fortunate to be able to spend a week there after Christmas 2018 on the incredible island of Maui.

While there I learned about the concept of makai and mauka. Makai means “towards the ocean” and mauka means “toward the mountains” and the words are used to tell folks which side of the road something is on. I could do a whole year of Hawaiian themed renders but the first two I wanted to attempt were a representation of the Makai/Mauka dichotomy. As this image looks towards the mountains, expect the next in the series to look towards the ocean.

Mahalo for looking! I hope you enjoy them!!

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Posted on January 10, 2019

Greenmire

“Greenmire” is new in the gallery this evening. I actually started this one before we left on our trip and hoped it would render and be finished when we returned. It was indeed finished but I still wanted to tweak a few things so I held onto it for a bit.

I am already working on a new image (or series of them) inspired by our visit to Maui. Stay tuned!!

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Posted on January 6, 2019

Recontainment (Variations) and Battery Recharging

Happy New Year!! The family and I just returned from a week of much needed R&R away and I excited to get started on some new renders. In the meantime here are some alternate versions of “Recontainment” that I let my machines render while we were away. I’m not sure any of them exceed the first (they all have their merits) so I’ll leave them in the Pickle Jar for the time being. Which do you prefer?

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Posted on December 26, 2018

Recontainment

I set out initially to redo my Containment scene using Plant Factory. It turned out different enough, however, that I felt it needed a new(ish) title.

This will probably be the last render of 2018. I hope you’ve enjoyed the 49 images I added to the gallery this year!! If so please feel free to deliver your tangible encouragement via my TipJar 😉

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