Digital art

Emulating "Golden Hours" with DAZ Studio and Iray
3D Models and Scenes

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Hi all, I’ll be very brief today. In my previous travel/photography post (the one about Warwick Castle) I mentioned the benefits of photographing during the so-called Golden Hours (early morning or late afternoon). I also flippantly said that 3D digital artists should look at emulating this more often because the lighting in so many works is very bland. Well, I’ve set as my post header the Warwick Castle photo that

My friend 1337's exhibition and my own artistic struggles
Travel

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1337 Let me take you back to the year 2000. It was late at night and I sat alone bathing in the soft light of my computer monitor. Death played on the screen in the form of HalfLife Deathmatch – a first person shooter game. I was SoulThief and that game was my escape from the world. Among my online friends was a player named FrankBooth. For the uninitiated let

A quick update on the Splendour Cliffs
Digital art articles and tutorials

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Hi all, I have not had much time to work on this (alas). I spent the day and a Records Keeping conference and then the family wanted some of my time to watch an old episode of the X-Files (“Ice”) and then the latest Criminal Intent. Anyway, here is my progress: The Splendour Cliffs are developing a beautiful golden glow – just the way that I have written them. The

A simple comparison of Cycles versus LuxRender, but first...
Thoughts

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… you have to listen to me talking about my day 🙂 Actually it was a grand old day. I used some of my annual leave to have the day off work so that I could visit my daughter’s school for Education week. This involved a long, long exhibition of talent in the playground. The talent involved singing, dancing, playing musical instruments and the such. My daughter sang in the

The trials and tribulations of Blenders cliffs
Writing & Inspiration

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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

Site changes, Iray, new digital art, and film reviews
Digital art articles and tutorials

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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