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Site changes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The front page of this site now has a bit of an explanation about my writing with an explicit focus upon my writing vision. It was an interesting exercise because it forced me to pull together all my streams of thought about my writing and essentially solidify them. For a while I was really tempted to talk about all the other writers that I have loved and their impact upon me, but then thought that this would be a distraction. So there it is. I’ve also added a Tales of Shade item to one of my menus and there I will start putting elements of my world as I create them.<\/p>\n I must admit that I really love the Sydney Theme. It is a beautiful and flexible theme. The best that I have used so far, which is great considering that it is free.<\/p>\n Iray AND two new character images<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I tricked you. Two of the stories are related!<\/p>\n OK, so it’s not that funny. But I am tired and anything will give me the giggles right now. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Anyway, the most recent version of DAZ Studio (the tool I frequently use to render my digital art) now includes Nvidia’s wonderful Iray. Nvidia describe Iray as a “physically based rendering technology that generates photorealistic imagery by simulating the physical behaviour of light and materials.” That’s a fancy way of saying that it makes 3D models of things look incredibly real.<\/p>\n So several weeks after getting it, I thought that I would try it out. Firstly I picked Kerphulu. As you know I already had a model of him. So I reposed it, changed camera angles and lighting, and then ran the same render under the two different render engines. Here is 3Delight:<\/p>\n I was quite happy with this. So here is Iray:<\/p>\n![\"delightKerphulu\"](\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/delightKerphulu.jpg\")
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