the clouds rolled in ...

a couple of new arrivals getting to be a grand world now and slowing down the renders with complexcity.

but this is where we are going to more complex models.

clockworks

the title is misleading it never ever ran like clockwork ... I tried ... went to the foundry made some objects ... flung them about in space and assembled some disorder ... another pile of debris that resembles order like clockwork!

I want to spend some time animating now. got to get some wheels in motion ... get some leverage and dig myself back to the surface !

a couple of other views

boschian ripoffs

whew where am I now? I have to do some research find the coordinates pin it down for a bit! or a byte!

i made this inside a space heaven, interesting restriction I had not anticipated, although I should have! i lost my ambient light and the distant light so i need to set up some illumination inside the spherical space.

it is getting very sculptural now OK back to it before it shifts its paralelity to my universe I will keep u posted!

a friend from artzone asked how i get the ideas for these images so here is a small tale related to the scene above :

i just start a piece by picking an object out of my model folder. Then for these few renders I found a sort of starry colour map on the textures site. I just like to look around for odd things like tiled roofing or sky maps and the yellowy orange map just jumped forward and said 'USE ME - USE ME! ( i recognise this call from my own voice as i am always calling out too) the rest is history ... I started with the column and I have this thing going with Eau Pears but I am thinking of those girls .... a pear appears and I had one in my folder .... well the world doesnt notice unless you use a bit of STICK and this is what i do I get a stick wield it around the arena of light find a home for it ... perhaps near the pear .... but how to place it ? ... along comes a flourish in the form of a rust twirl ... I see that the stick will fit in here with a bit of resizing ... the world is taking shape ... i made a cylindrical base ... I wanted a bit of relection but not clear like a mirror so i chose to make the surface of the cylinder polished copper .... I between time I am looking around in my computer to see where the hell I stored all my files ... the scene is a bit bare ... i found a berry in my model folder so i placed it on the dish ... before I could stop it 'springtwitter jumped into my mind and dragged herself onto the screen ... I tried to warn her off this was not a place for her to fly yet !.... no way next thing i knew I had her hanging of the stick and she was caught .... then I didnt want to feel the guilt of having placed the stick itself so I thought i could share the blame with the two spirals that i hung on the stick ... I added a loop and hung a smokey spiral of it ... haha! you see it was the distraction that caused the accident .... not I!! ... I put up a plane and stuck on some tiles I found washed them out for a bit more mystery then the idea came to me to use a sheprical sky so I made a big sphere and added the yellow orange map to it .... SHIT!!! every thing went dark the scene light was outside and I had turned the ambience off ...

This is what i like now i got to light up the pieces and watch the shadows appear and amaze me .... ( I find it a great help to the imagination to watch the shadows appear on the scenes ) sometimes i will move the camera around to find the best shadow and have it as a focus. I am always amazed ! although I expect them to be there because i have lights I never know all the objects that will throw a shadow ... tuning turning they too start their story ... I wonder what they represent to me ... it is a bit like a dream really the thing i recognise the shadow to be is telling me something about my life right now .... Next I started to add lights ... a couple of spots with light comes for some drama ... enter the fogg .... the story became a little confused and fog set in ... i grabbed a couple of springs and enveloped the fog ... important!! so I added the xxxxxxx x x x x x 's the disc was a bit thin so I added some depth and made a frame out of it ... still it didnt work floating so I tried my dome thistle thingiee and gave it a short haircut for lawn .... HA! I made a suburb ... i went shopping brough a couple of new pears and chucked them on the column ... looking through my hex models file I found a couple of darts I had not used ... soooo befcause it looked like a target on the ground i chucked them at it and the landed ( i cheated and moved them into possy .. DESIGN RULES! )

that is pretty much it ... there is ofcourse a lot more going on in the dialog with my waking dream but that has passed and I would need to keep a journal of the events as they pass ...

doeoflight, I hope this gives you an inkling of the events that make my works.

if it sounds like a lot of dribble ... then ... yes, my entire world is just a bit of dribble hanging of the sages lip .................

the second temptation of adam

I experimented in gimp to make a bit of mosaic into a seamless tile then it suited this tree form I had made so I thought ! a little diversion into sur reality .. i wanted to represent the pear from the au pear tree story again, as the new temptation, the apple having already had all the good press from those past events ... now it is time for the pear ... and here it are! the au pear a new temptation ... the pear is glowing in the light ... the two hemispheres are murky water and clean air ... i liked the way the shape of the dish cut into the scene so i mirrored it for emphasis ... this is all going good ... I am pretty busy now with film work will not be able to download as much might be weekends only .... comments welcome ...

a little more play and some atmosphere added and another dragon appeared

Dragon, a bit of hexagon modeling ... I am not really happy with the head so i will try another style maybe I will use the new jugger for head ... doing my roof tomorrow may not have much to post ... well I could take some pics ... we'll see!

a new little shuffle i have been working on ... not much time these last few days getting my fireplace back operational for winter ... more to come soon ... enjoy

inside the treehouse

and inside the tree ... the leaves came through the wall from the outside but i like it then i placed some Ikea that i made and chucked down a carpet ... it is a bit messy with the toys strewn around but then that is the way the world remains .... messy !

a couple of views the forge is now fired up and after days of negotiating i have convinced ariel that my seeing inside would be illumination to us all ... the equipment is nearly all here and we can get going on the repairs ... I have decided on a complete makeover and we will be fitting the deep space shells and superchargers ...

closeup

here is the closeup will allow u to see a little more of the scene .. i turned the leaves off for a quicker render

repairs at the end of day one

this is where I ended up .. I really love the reflections in the ocean and will do a closeup enlarged render from there to take to photoshop for a workover ...

I am also posting a closeup of this scene ... today I made a ladder, hammer, pliers, blueprints, forge, and i planted a bunch of vegetation ... the eau pair must be close to bearing fruit here any day now i believe .. the ocean is calming and repairs seem to be going forward ...

I started a conversation with another world : the islands of the sixth sense and they are under construction now . a quick pic for starters.

So I am thinking about six worlds ... well obviously the ellementals four + 1 , earth, air, fire, water + ether and the sixth element illusionary will be difficult to reach the paths to it will be not obvious or complex ... the pathways to the other islands will be as easy as their interactivity demands ... I see a viewing platform in the centre and then it becomes a tripod and the tripod is reversed as two interlocking tetrahedrons ... that the sixth path ... well let me get to the adventure and report back to you!

well this is where I am going to stop for a while ... added a house in the distance .. with some outside plumbing that will get more detail as we get closer to it had a play with the plants ... i put a smaller plant inside another and made it flatter and raised it up to be flowers after changing the color map of the leaves ...not happy with the long path yet i would rather see the texture sq but i need to make something new now so That's it for now ... and yes first time grass from hair ..
tell me what you think

made a sky added some blue colour to break it up a bit extended the path and planted a forrest of au pears .... now i will open the gate a bit and import the treeshape for the distance ... i made some soup for the forrest to grow in and look at all the lovely shadows!

Well a few changes made now ... i planted my own au pair trees and i lifted a few more lights ... now i feel it is too bright .. so by the next pose i will have adjusted these points

After I made the tree in Hexagon I added a load of regions to be able to export the model with the ability to take on different textures i planted it next to the Ocean (with waves) and added a forest of 'au pair' trees then some light and springtwitter cam into view ... he must have been cruising trying to stay ahead of the nectar hunters ... I liked using two different colour light beams and to see them interact like real light was a buzz ... in the distance i made an unreal mountain that is really just a light beam with fog over it .. I will post some closeups to follow

the reflection of the triangle in the circle fascinated me and i conspired to toss the glass piece toward the reflection the interesting thing was that the reflection could not be seen until the painting rendered .... like the glaze ... in the story as I was modeling the dome shape used for the hair piece in hexagon and I went back and forth between the renders setup and the modeling program ... the thistle model was slowly coming to life in hexagon so i sent a few exports on the way to completion ... that gave me a dried sort of feel to the thistle ... I adjusted the render and saw it could be a fly trap ... immediately springtwitter came to mind and it gave me another platform in the story and an opportunity for another vehicle ... the rescue vehicle, as it came to pass I had duplicated the dome and it tied WAY BACK to some works I did in the early eighties so i decided to make a seedpod style vehicle like a balloon and make it come to springtwitters rescue

I was rendering this in a larger scene and I noticed that the reflections rendered ahead of the main effects in space .... so how cool is that life is preempted by reflection ! time to think about that! ... I think i have said it before, it is like pottery, the render is the firing of the kiln and although I have expectations to get a certain result I don't have all the cards in hand as there are reflections that are like the real world ... at least out of my control !