Puss Reboots: Digial Art: October 2001

The Alcove

Here was my first render from the Alcove project. I had drawn Red Fruit in Painter. The curtains were Carrara creations.

The City
Here is another Painter drawing for use in the Alcove project. It hangs over the fireplace.

Alcove Fireplace
Here is the fireplace in the Alcove.

Alcove 2
Here is a view of the alcove and fireplace. For this render I was mostly concentrating on camera placement and lighting. There is also a new rug, the Boca Rug.

Alcove 3
I added a table, a book and the banana bowl. I also moved the camera to reframe the room.

Huntress
I made this piece in Painter and later applie it to an amphora.

Atlantis
Here is the "Huntress" picture applied to the amphora.

Dreams of Atlantis
I wanted to show the amphora before it was sunk below the surface of the sea. Dreams of Atlantis remains one of my favorite Bryce pieces.

Tales from the Darkside
While the pumpkin is deformed, it is still one of the most complicated objects I have built in the vertex editor. I reused the Red Room project for this Halloween piece.

Le Fou
I drew this in Painter and Photoshop for use as a pillow texture in the alcove project.

The Alcove Final
Here is the final render from the alcove project.

Detail of the Alcove
I used DOF to bring in the focus on the love seat under the fruit painting.

Waiting for News
It's another cheesy Bryce/Painter/Poser piece. While it's not great, it did serve it's purpose as a storyboard for a project I've been working for just about forever. So it has sentimental value.

Ray Reflections
I created this low polygon mantaray in Carrara. It has some problems with its normals but still works okay for most underwater scenes.

Halloween Kitchen
I think this was another of the Ray Dream / Carrara Challenges that the 3DCommune used to run.

Trick-or-Treat
Another Halloween themed image. This one was rendered in Bryce.

Swimming the Estuary
This top down view of the ray shows the problems it has with its normals on its "wings."

If it Snowed Near Half Moon Bay
Here is my very first render using MojoWorld. It's just a view of the orignal default planet.

Lost
I had gotten lost using the UFO option in MojoWorld but I was able to stop long enough to render this beautiful sunset on the original default planet.

Rainbow Ridge Snowline
Here is another render from the original default planet. It reminded me of a place I had described once in a story.

From Space
I think this is the original default planet from a low orbit.

Alien Ridge
A render from a different planet--one of the ones that I downloaded from the 3DCommune.

Small Island
This planet is the same one I explored in "Alien Ridge." I liked the reflection of the light on the water and the little yellow, sand dune area on the island.

Small Island Close Up
I came around to the northern bit of the island and dropped lower for a closer view.

City of Lights
I rendered this image from a southern location (where Australia would approximately be) on Aktati's planet.

City of Lights: Morning
This is the same region but under daylight conditions.

New Delphi Dawn
I think this is back on the orignal default planet. Anyway, the shapes of the land forms here match up beautifully with an area I was describing in a story.

Cheese and Crackers
The cheese, plate and crackers are all vertex editor creations. They're all low poly and rather crude but represent a huge leap forward for me back in 2001.