Puss Reboots: Digital Art: Themes: Sun and Moon
The sun and the moon have been a constant theme in my work.
 Corwin... One Prince in Amber This Photoshop collage is inspired by the Amber series by Roger Zelazny. April 2001 |
 Gargoyle 2 Back in 2001 I was a product tester for the 3DCommune and this was one of those test images. I like the colors of it but otherwise it's not one of my favorites. April 2001 |
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 Twin Suns I did this two part composite render in Bryce after some one posted a challenge to see if it were possible to have alien worlds of mulitiple suns or moons. May 2001 |
 Solstice In this Photoshop piece I wanted to represent the solistice for the northern and southern hemispheres at once. May 2001 |
 Home Planet Done for the weekly Project Imagination theme at alt.binaries.3d.bryce. 100% Bryce with no post production (other than the title at the bottom). June 2001 |
 Mind Warp 3D I had a dream about being on a space station made from an asteroid. Looking out the window I saw a spiral and glass tree and ultimately a moon. June 2001 |
 Mind Warp 3 Here is the Photoshop version of the same dream inspired picture. I think the Bryce version is a better represention of what I dreamt. June 2001 |
 Mirror Tray I did the mirror tray for Tony Lynch's mirror/mirror challenge. I modeled and rendered in Ray Dream (Carrara). June 2001 |
 What? This angry cat is made up of Photoshop custom shapes. August 2001 |
 Unexpected Arrival This is a Bryce / Painter piece and it's very rough and rather cheesy but I like it because it helped me work out some of the aspects of a uniform I was trying to describe. So forgive me for my sentimental posting of a rubbish drawing. September 2001 |
 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. October 2001 |
 Red Skies at Night This is another south pole sunset but on a different planet. I don't recall which planet this is. November 2001 |
 Default South Pole This is the south pole from the original default planet. November 2001 |
 North Pole Winter Here is the north pole of the original default planet. November 2001 |
 North Pole Winter Here is the north pole of the original default planet with the sun up. November 2001 |
 Bay Area (Chisel Peak) I thought these land forms were a good approximation for what we have here in the Bay Area. November 2001 |
 Desert Shadows I don't remember who made this planet but I probably got it from the 3DCommune. This coastline reminds me of California. November 2001 |
 The View from East Bay Just imagine a long bridge in the middle of the water and it would look like the southern bit of San Francisco Bay. November 2001 |
 Once in a Blue Moon Lava City was my third attempt at building a planet from scratch. December 2001 |
 Moonrise at Lava City I used this planet to learn about creating moons and parameter bombs. December 2001 |
 Gloria Bay I like how the light reflects on the snowy bits and on the water. December 2001 |
 Starry Night I drew this colorful piece on paper with Pentel Pens. December 2001 |
 Night Owl I drew this with Pentel pens. I was just inspired to do it and it practically drew itself. This owl image is now one of Sean's favorites. He even has a shirt with it on it. January 2002
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 Deja Vu (or Three Flying Carpets on Autopilot) Another of the Project Imagination themes on the binary news group inspired this piece, as did the "deja vu" of being pregnant again. Except this time it looked like things would really work (which they did). January 2001 |
 Sunrise (Planet March) Here is my fifth(?) MojoWorld planet. March 2002 |
 "Ceen" from Space Here is planet Cee and its moon from space. April 2002 |
 Monterey The challenge version of Monterey is a few versions back from before the planet became corrupt. April 2002 |
 Sand Dunes in Nevada Not quite what I wanted but I like the colors. April 2002 |
 Eclipse Someone wanted to know if eclipses were possible in MojoWorld. April 2002 |
 Reflections on Yarblockorama I love the moody atmosphere of this challenge world. May 2002 |
 Moon Rise on Bart I lke to render moons in MojoWorld. May 2002 |
 Snowy Path The name refers to the path on the ground in the left corner of the piece but most people who have looked at this render think it refers to the cloud formation that bisects the moon. June 2002 |
 Moonstruck This planet has some cheese wedge shaped moons! October 2002 |
 Moon Glow A green and red moon. November 2002 |
 The Sun I did this for a Carrara forum monthly challenge. This piece ended up winning the challenge. January 2003 |
 Whispering Hills Beautiful yellow sun. May 2003 |
 Athens, Georgia The lamp was the newest creation. May 2003 |
 Moondance Drawn with Painter. June 2003 |
 Planet Sartori Three renders in one. June 2003 |
 The Waiting Room on a New Moon I was playing with creating differently shaped interiors. March 2004 |
 Rapunzel I created te tower and other castle bits with boolean operations. The tower just seemed to need Rapunzel's hair so I added it in with Photoshop. March 2004 |
 Night Reflections Someone wanted to know if it was possible to have a night scene come througha window and still have a slight reflection from the interior without drowning out the view with the reflections. I put this piece together to demonstrate a technique. March 2004 |
 New Moon A reprisal of a previous piece. March 2004 |
 Herding Cattle on Blue Moon These mountains reminded me of the view along the I5 on the way to Los Angeles. April 2004 |
 Exploring Stevol I like the dust coming off the dune buggy. April 2004 |
 Pantopia Minimalism I like the two moons against the flat planes of color. May 2004 |
 Dust Bowl The wheet is made of Bryce trees. May 2004 |
 Moonrise on Hitokuro Hitokuro has a beautiful sun. June 2004 |
 New Moon Another beautiful Mojo moon. July 2004 |
 Silent Orpheus The tide is just starting to come in. September 2004 |
 Crescent Moon Another lovely moon render. September 2004 |
 Green Rocks and Moonrise Here is another view of Orpheus. September 2004 |
 Radical Edward was Here This render reminds me of the episode in which Radial Edward is introduced on Cowboy Bebop. September 2004 |
 Happy Halloween I drew this portrait of "Heech-Heech" for Sean. October 2004 |
 Twin Moons Aren't these moons lovely. November 2004 |
 Axus Moon Rise Another lovely moon rise. November 2004 |
 Moon Shadows on Nenamo This valley reminds me of Monument Valley in Utah. December 2004 |
 The Moon Through the Clouds Look carefully. December 2004 |
 The Cold Moon My first posted render from Planet Pluto (challenge 166). Created January 20, 2005 |
 San Pedro Sun Towers I added a small city to a spot on Planet Avon. Created January 28, 2005 |
 Light the Fire The lighthouse is a tree. It comes with MojoWorld and am in awe of things that MojoTree can create. Someday I hope to be able to create things like this lighthouse. Anyway, a nautically themed planet like Brighton needs a lighthouse, so I've added one in. I'll probably add a few more here and there. Created February 10-11, 2005 |
 The New Moon This simple drawing started as a doodle. I liked the doodle enough that I recreated it in Photoshop. Created March 15-6, 2005 |
 178/1 CMYK My first render from slav's challenge planet, CyberCity. I did a three layer treatment and changed the hue in two of them to change the moon and mountain's colors. Created April 20, 2005 |
 Moonrise on Lavagna Here is the second render from Planet Lavagna. The planet doesn't get this dark with it's actual settings so I adjusted the contrast in Photoshop to draw attention away from the landscape and to the moon sliver. Created May 31, 2005 |
 Owl Moon I drew this owl in Photoshop using custom shapes. It started with a pen doodle I did at work. I thought the doodle was cute enough to recreate in Photoshop. Created November 14, 2005 |
 Early Morning Moon I saw the most beautiful full moon setting over the north west end of the San Francisco Bay this morning as I crossed the San Mateo Bridge. It was pink against the slate gray sky. I did this quick illustration in Photoshop to capture what I had seen. Created December 15, 2005 |
 Pink Moon Here is a Bryce version of the moon I saw earlier this month. Created December 17, 2005 |
 Orange Sun Here is the typical sunrise I've been experiencing on my drive across the San Mateo Bridge. Created December 19, 2005 |
 Winter Solstice I drew this with Photoshop to capture my impressions of this morning's commute across the bridge. Today is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. Created December 21, 2005 |
 Reaching for the Sun I drew this in Photoshop. It is some sort of weed against a bright summer's sky. Created June 8, 2006 |
 September Moon There was a beautiful nearly full moon today on the way home from getting dinner. Created September 4, 2006 |
 Owl and the Moon Sean and I read Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel. The last chapter is called "Owl and the Moon" and it has a beautiful illustration of Owl standing at the seaside watching the moon rise. As I already have an owl model, I decided to try to recreate the image in Bryce. In working on the piece, I tried to keep the colors similar to the earth tones Lobel uses in most of his books. I'm rather pleased with how it turned out. Created October 9, 2006 |
 Winter Sun I did this drawing to practice with the brushes and the new blending options. Created January 24, 2007 |
 Sliver Moon A rendering from Planet Janus. Created March 30, 2007 |
 Moonset Inspired by "Early Morning Moon," a drawing I did back in December 2005. Created April 30, 2007 |
 Link Fire There are two massive fires burning in our area. The Link Fire is the closest, being south east of San Jose in the Henry Coe State Park. There's another one north east of us in Lassen county. With two fires in our air space our normal fog has been replaced by ashy clouds that turn the sun red at sunset and orange at sunrise. Created September 5, 2007 |
 Fire Clouds at Sunrise The morning after we had the tomato red sunset, we had a sunrise with an off yellow sun and ash falling from the sky. The air was so thick with smoke that the shafts of light were red as if it were sunset. This time I tried to capture the effect in Bryce. Created September 6-7, 2007 |
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