Posted on March 17, 2018

Nightshade

I created these blooms using The Plant Factory for an upcoming landscape project. I thought they would make an interesting Lightwave macro render however. When I showed it to Jessie the first thing she said was “oooh Nightshade!” and that sounded like a great title to me. It’s not your garden variety that’s for certain! Stay tuned for the landscape (rendering now on Shadowfax)!

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Posted on March 10, 2018

Painted Sky (Night)

The original “Painted Sky” from last year sits at #2 on my all-time Top Rated list so it seemed natural to create a night-time scene. My night version dials back some of the clouds which gave the original its title but I think it still works. I hope you enjoy it at least as much as a “day” version!

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Posted on March 6, 2018

Strathwood (Winter)

Since I created “Strathwood” to render relatively quickly I can be a bit more nimble with making variations. I thought it would be fun to create a winter version but also at the same time have it be a little more colorful than the mostly earth-toned original. Let me know what you think!

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Posted on March 3, 2018

Erebus

Glad to finally be able to post this one! The Vue scene took so long to render that I feared that Shadowfax had hung more than once. It actually did crash one time and I had to restart the whole thing. Regardless, I persisted and I’m happy to be able to share it with you. I used Lightwave 2018’s new texturing model for the background planet. Hopefully it was worth the wait.

The scene will need a major rework if I am going to be able to produce multiscreen versions however. The whole thing is set up for 360 rendering but we shall see.

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Posted on February 26, 2018

Strathwood

It’s been a few months since I’ve done a “BIG” landscape and some of you have been requesting them. My recent scenes have been more on the intimate side. To be honest I’ve gotten myself into a bit of trouble using Vue lately in that the scenes I’ve been dreaming up have been taking far too long to render.

For this scene I wanted to concentrate on keeping the render time manageable (on Bucephalus even) while still keeping the WOW factor. I hope you think I’ve succeeded with “Strathwood”.

EDIT: I’ve posted a revised version on 2/28. The original will remain in the Pickle Jar if you would like to compare. You will also notice that (by popular demand) I’ve added wallpapers sized to fit the iPhone X.

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