Wow, where did June disappear to? I blinked, and it was gone! Had a birthday, a number of dates with my “just a friend” Ricardo, did a bit of work, played all through NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer (yet again) and attempted various pictures with very little success. This one rendered today while I was at work, and it’s the first image actually completed this month (I think.) I used SkinVue and, obviously, Vue, to render this - mostly to try out SkinVue.

Full view here.

Vue render … learned a lot about the new material zones on terrains as well as ecosystems. Soft focus applied post with Picasa.

Full view here.

I’m so behind the times … I finally got Vue 7 Esprit (at a discount ) as well as the Ecosystem and EcoPainter modules. This is my first official render with it, and I worked on it about 3 days, in between actual work, that is.

Vue 7 renders much much quicker than Vue 6, so for the first time ever I could use Global Illumination and still finish a render in just over an hour.

Another cool thing is that with the latest update you can now “paint” material zones directly onto objects … so what used to be almost impossible - road tracks on a terrain - was now just a case of drawing two lines and setting the corresponding materials.

And then of course there’s the awesomeness of “painting” your ecosystem the way you want it, and the ease and realism of dynamic populations.

Is it obvious that I’m happy with my new software? LOL, I just wish I had more time to play!

Full view here.

DAZ|Studio render … been preoccupied with other things the last week or so. My PC needs a mind wipe, it’s been acting really weird. And I’ve been working more often than usual in the shop. Cutting seems to be on the back burner for the time being. Ah well.

Full view of the picture here.

Vue render.

Full view here.

Poser render - some of my new toys and a bit of Photoshop postwork.

This is the original version.

You can look at the updated version here.

Poser render with a tiny bit of photoshop postwork. Render took around 8 hours, due to the motion blur on wings. Background is a photo I took in the garden this morning.

Full view here.

Vue render with a bit of Photoshop postwork.

Full view download here.

I’ve been offline for a while - been sick and working while sick, so making pictures and updating this blog was the last thing on my to-do list. Still not back to 100% but soldiering on, lol!

… from the primordial soup …

Vue render with a bit of Photoshop work for splashes, stars and the like.

I bought TerraPak for Vue and was experimenting when this idea popped up…

Full view (1680×1050px) here.

Vue render, no postwork.

Airplane model from here.

And you can download the full view from here.