SoulThief

Friends, natural beauty and slavery

After a few days with my computer in a workshop being upgraded (the SSD was full and the thing was no longer working properly), I sigh a big sigh of relief and can make a post. Unfortunately I cannot meet a promise of showing a comparison video between Blender in cycles and Blender in Luxrender. That may have to wait a week. 🙁

More thoughts on cliffs being designed in Blender

Hi all, This post is a very brief one about my Blender-designed cliffs for my book scene. So I did a bit of research into mountain monasteries to get an idea for my cliff city. Lots of pictures available on Google images. Then I went and made the cliffs look a bit bulkier and substantial in Blender (more ledges etc.). I felt that this would add reality. Also, to get

The trials and tribulations of Blenders cliffs

Today is a mostly graphics oriented post. However I might also discuss the belief system of the Gnosians and their Magi (i.e. some of the people in my distant novel). Which first? Well, for some of you I suspect that the computer graphics stuff will be dead boring… so let’s start with that! 🙂 Only kidding 🙂 Religion of the Gnosians and their Magi At the moment there is definitely

Gaming nostalgia, plans for story related digital art & The X Files

Nothing deep in today’s post, just odds and sods of my daily existence. Gaming nostalgia Tonight I added some more information to my personal gamer history section of this website. It made me somewhat nostalgic. The years 2001 and 2002 were very dynamic for me. My friend notTricky had created his own game network and I was part of it. My clan WAR was flourishing. Then Valve created Halflife TV

Site changes, Iray, new digital art, and film reviews

Hi all, it’s been a busy few days since my last post. In this post I intend to: tell you about my further site changes and how they relate to my writing make a brief mention of DAZ Studio’s new renderer Iray show you my new digital art – two characters from Shade review “Jupiter Ascending” and “Grown Ups” Yes, way too much for one post. So just scroll down

Site changes

Pardon the visual pun. LOL Anyway, as you may have noticed Greole.com is looking a bit different after a weekend of stuffing around with themes and the such. I have now installed the free Sydney theme which looks quite spectacular in my opinion. Please let me know if you like it. To some extent I have also moved the focus of the site onto my fantasy world of Shade (albeit

Nemesis Games (unintentional review) and recrafting of my own novels

Once upon a Monday night dreary, while I pondered weak and… Dammit! Originality young Greg! Review of Nemesis Games that I had not originally intended to write – it just happened Anyway, towards the end of last week my work sucked me dry enough that I barely touched a computer for several days. Hence no blog posts not even much blog reading. Instead I read a science fiction novel called