Another Winner

Well it’s been a good month. I received a facility staff award for innovation in teaching and learning (mostly for my use of video and screencasts) and also Won a 3D rendering comp over at Cornucopia3d with an image that took me 20 minutes. Admittedly I used an ice texture I …

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Vue 9.5 (pre-release)

I got my hands on a pre-release version of Vue 9.5 and it’s got some cool new features, including: Advanced Cloud Control, Interactive Texture Placement, Localized Cloud Layers, Fast Hybrid Depth of Field, and even a Velocity Pass (great for post processed motion blur). After playing with it a bit …

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Spiral Storm [Updated x4]

After completing a real site I decided to create something a bit more surreal. [update] I wasn’t that happy with the post processed lens blur in my original version of this image so I re-rendered it with a raytraced DoF Blur. I also spent a bit more time in photoshop creating …

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Cream of the crop

For a while now I’ve had a portfolio on Cornucopia. The other day I thought I’d throw an image up there of a project I’ve been working on. In my opinion it’s not the most impressive work I’ve done however the people that run the site thought otherwise and selected …

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Ode to the Builders

I travelled to Greece once by accident about 10 years ago, the thing that really struck me was the old construction yards. Full of partially built structures, used rock, debris, etc. All just sitting out in the open, in the elements. I think those that spent their time in these …

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