Vue render of my favourite old wizard. I’ve been playing with and extending my skills with Vue the last few months – it’s getting easier to get the look I want.

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In other news – I won a challenge at RedBubble with my “Golden Dragon” fractal. See the entries here.

And I’ve sold two mounted prints of other fractal images (This and this). It’s ironic that I get recognition for randomly-generated fractals but the 3D renders that I struggle with for days are completely ignored. Ah well.

We’re having a drought while the rest of the country is getting more rain than they want or can handle. Strange. It’s raining less than 100km away but not here. Not since last year.

Been a while since I posted. Can’t be bothered most days. Anyway, the picture today is a Vue render with a bit of postwork in Photoshop and Picasa.

In other news, the new year has finally started, work is still a bit slow but I’m hoping it will pick up soon. It’s a beautiful January on the mountain – we’ve had quite a bit of rain so everything is lush and green. The days are not too hot and the night air is like champagne. I love January on the mountain! 🙂

Vue render, no postwork.

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If you’re observant you may notice that this picture and the previous one is of the exact same spot – I just changed the atmosphere, added water, removed the maize 🙂

Been a busy week, worked in the shop every day from 9am to 5:30pm. And cutting stuff evenings. I feel like I need a holiday!

Vue render, no postwork.

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I stumbled home exhausted from work … and made this. Took two evenings, in fact. Going to get some sleep now.

Been playing. Poser render, postwork in Photoshop.

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Had a great day with Ricardo and friends Nico and Mariska at the Lowveld Botanical Gardens today. It’s been a cold rainy week and today was just glorious sunshine – of course I look a bit lobsterish at the moment but it was worth it. Lovely weather, beautiful scenery – the waterfall was spectacular! And some really nice people.

Vue render with a tiny bit of Photoshop postwork. It’s been ages since I had the time to even consider working on a pic – finally stole a few minutes today and completed this one.

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Been very busy with cutting work and shop work etc etc. And it’s finally summer – we’ve had 2 days of sunshine in a row! And it’s rather hot. Although they’re predicting SNOW over the Drakensberg this weekend. SNOW, in the midst of summer. Strange.

I keep forgetting to post my images here when they’re done. This one is a Vue render of some Poser figures postworked with Dogwaffle and Photoshop.

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Been rather busy with cutting work and shop work and a personal life (finally). Things to do and places to go, what a concept.

I wanted to work on this all week and only got time for it today… Modelled the set in Amorphium. Rendered it in layers (background, plants, bird) in Poser. Drew background plants with Project Dogwaffle. Then combined the lot in Photoshop and played a little 🙂

Waterfall from Nanus Waterfall Alpha-planes for Vue (they make great Photoshop brushes!) at [link] and [link]

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This one is a nice mix of programs again. I posed the figure in Poser, imported into Vue where I had to work very hard on textures for the clothing and props. Vue took care of the landscape, plants and sky. I then took the render to Photoshop for retouching and special effects. The bubbles were rendered with Poser, using Poseworks’ Particles3 system, and composited into the image in Photoshop. And finally I used Picasa for a soft glow effect and a soft focus effect. And voila!

I figure she’s a North American elf, or manitou… or something.

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An update of my Still Flyin’ pic – I wanted to extend the island into the water, and the atmosphere wouldn’t cooperate so it became something else entirely. But I think it looks nice anyway,

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