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March 2005
I lost half of February to the flu. Hopefully March will be more productive.
Desert
Afternoon Planet Cardiff has a few dry zones where I've found some cacti varieties. They are altered versions of what comes with the program.
Created March 1, 2005
Winter's Coming (Cardiff)A quick view of the ice flows on Cardiff. I also rather like the view of the sky. That was a lucky find.
Created March 1, 2005
Amanda's CouchI put this rather simple interior together last night while watching NCIS and the season premiere of The Amazing Race. The scene is inspired by an Artedeco advertisement in an older issue of Florida Design. I reused the couch I built for the interior renders of my own living room but I changed the texture and added some throw pillows. Negative lighting provides the contrast under the stairs.
Created March 1-2, 2005
Amanda's
Patio Last night while watching Smallville and later CSI: New York, I built these director's chairs with boolean operations. The canvas bits are terrains. I obviously reused a lot of the elements from the previous project.
Created March 2-3, 2005
172/1 Down the CrevasseMy first render from Aktati's Planet Spelaean Habitat (challenge 172). She's used the clouds to create the sense of a cave roof.
Created March 4, 2005
172/1 The RopeThe second render shows one of the inner rings. It makes a nice looking rope.
Created March 4, 2005
172/3
The Way Out?At last I've found the stars. I seem to have escaped from Aktati's cave world.
Created March 4, 2005
The CityPlanet Detroit is a little joke in response to a friend who teased me for naming all my recent planets for British cities.
Created March 7, 2005
Light ReadingThe amphora lamp is my latest boolean building project. I finally gave in an imported one of my earlier models (the table) to use in this project as the lamp had taken my entire alloted time for playing in Bryce.
Created March 7, 2005
At Home in MississaugaI was looking at an advertisment for kitchen cabinets when I was inspired to create a dresser. Like my previous projects the dresser uses boolean operations. Mississauga is in Canada (near Ontario) and the kitchen designer is based there. It seemed like a good name for this image even though it shares very little with the ad that inspired it.
Created March 8, 2005
Edinburgh
Coast I'm back to naming planets after cities in Great Britain. This time it's Scotland. I'm having some trouble with Edinburgh. I'm not quite satisfied with the landforms and the vegitation colors.
Created March 9, 2005
Tumble WeedsOne happy discovery while working on Edingburgh is the tumble weed MojoTree. It consists of three levels of branches each with a high degree of curve and a high number of segments to create these knots of bushes.
Created March 9, 2005
Jordon's RoomI built the chair with booleans and terrains but I didn't like the initial two renders I did on Wednesday. Last night I opted for moodier lighting and I like the results.
Created March 9-10, 2005
Light Reflecting on SnowThis is my first render from Artistken's contribution to the challenge planets (#173). The planet seems to render best at dusk and dawn.
Created March 10-11, 2005
On Location in Big SurI made the little folding table to go with the director's chair. The two pieces just called for an outdoor setting. The mountain in the background is the Big Sur DEM that comes with Bryce.
Created March 12-13, 2005
Modern
Art I'm trying my best to learn vertex modeling. My stone sculpture is the result of about twenty minutes of just playing with various tools.
Created March 14, 2005
Primary
ColorsI'm still playing with vertex editing and having fun making all sorts of odd shapes. I thought a bold color scheme would fit these shapes better than earthy tones like I used in the previous image.
Created March 15, 2005
The
New MoonThis simple drawing started as a doodle. I liked the doodle enough that I recreated it in Photoshop.
Created March 15-6, 2005
Young
Redwoods I'm still playing with vertex editing. This time I managed to create a nice shape that could be used as both a tree limb and as a tree root. Getting the tree editor in Bryce to cough up a halfway convincing redwood ended up being harder than the vertex modeling. I've gotten out of practice with the tree editor.
Created March 16-7, 2005
Lady
Bug I had some time at work and thought I'd draw a lady bug in honor of my son's current favorite book, Ten Little Lady Bugs.
Created March 18, 2005
Hunting for Eggs I had one of those "eureka!" moments with Carra's vertex editor last night and ended up creating a beautifully ornate fence. That fence was the start of this image, though it now is but a dim background detail at the edge of the garden.
Created March 24-5, 2005
Duro
Terraces Alisonb's planet Duro (challenge 165) is quick to render and has some lovely materials. The green valley below this rocky range is actually the ocean.
Created March 25, 2005
By
Jove Here is a lovely sunset render from planet Duro with a moon resembling Jupiter on the horizon.
Created March 25, 2005
Duro
Fly ByI did this render of Planet Duro to highlight the beautiful rock formations and the grassy areas. I adjusted the contrast and color balance a bit in Photoshop to bring out the details.
Created March 25, 2005
Data EntryI started this piece with a doodle on graph paper. I realized that my doodle would tile nicely and I recreated it in Photoshop and defined it as a background. Then I created a new file and laid down the doodle as the background. I filled in some of the boxes with colors but decided that I liked the large amount of white space so I didn't color everything in.
Created March 29, 2005
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