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That's not snow lol

August 23, 2013
Hey all!

Today I believe GOD wants me to share a render and creative error on my part. I didn't ask for GOD's input on this and this is what happens when we don't, hahaha!

Back-story. As you all know, I am working on matching images for the sonnets from the 4 seasons. This one, is for the first sonnet of Winter. While quite a challenge to make a scene like this work, I thoroughly felt the challenge and wanted to through a tantrum. I wanted to add snow to the scene in the form of halo's. I believed for some reason, they carried shadows. Not so,...really not so, haha.

I found quite quick they were not gonna work for snow and so I went on to add a very simple sphere and made that be my snow flake. Didn't work... at all, hahaha!

Check it out:

yikes! lol

Obviously, this already contains the snow textures, but after I finished those, GOD insisted I render this out to and I believe it is to show how far off base we get when we don't get HIS input. I don't typically have this kind of problem. I usually go through many adjustments, but the method is always right, until today when I wanted to do it my way, lol.

Anyway, here is what it should look like:

Much better!

I was happy with the result I got here. It's all very plain and what not, but I really like it. I would like the tree to be better, but re-mesh makes it more high-poly and leaves it full of holes, hahaha.

Hope you all enjoyed this and got blessed by the message to "In all thy ways acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy paths" (Proverbs 3:6 KJV).

Thank YOU!!!!!!
 

Wood

August 22, 2013
Hey all!

Today I want to share with you the background in focus. This has three purposes:
1) I believe GOD wants me to share this
2) To show you that procedural textures look great, even close-up and
3) To show you one of the techniques in the upcoming book

Now, here is the image:


You can't see a lot of knots here, really, but I didn't want really high contrast in this image, however, you can see one and some hints of where there would be. For example, the top layer of planks, big one, lower left c...

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4 Seasons - Spring and Summer

August 19, 2013
Hey all!

As you all know, sometimes weeks go by without me uploading any new pieces. Many times, I am actually quite active on work in that time and here is a post to show you some pieces I've been working on.

Everyone is familiar with Vivaldi's 4 seasons. I found on Wikipedia, that there are some sonnets that accompany every movement. I do not believe that Vivaldi wrote them, as there is a reference to Bacchus. If he did, that's between him and GOD, but I don't agree with it. Thankfully, there...
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Time will be no more

August 8, 2013
Hey all!

This one developed in a funny way. Not like ha-ha, just different than most works, which are planned pieces, not just growing into something.

I experimented with rigid body physics in Blender yesterday and while I got some okay results, I need to learn about the constraints for these kinds of physics options. While they are extremely useful, I don't know how to use them just yet, lol.

Anyway, after trying this and trying that, I just didn't get anywhere, until GOD suggested I use what I...
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