Friday, August 17, 2007

A big list of Poser freebies

BlackRaven3d has a big list of sites hosting free stuff for Poser and a few other 3d programs. As with any such large list, some of the links are dead, but most aren't and provide a lot of useful stuff.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Monday, July 30, 2007

Project Top Secret

DAZ3D and Acclaim have teamed up to start the first community created computer game. DAZ3D members are invited to contribute 2d and 3d art for a mount based racing game- character designs, concept art, locations etc.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Ruby Canoe


Ruby canoe
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Perhaps because the story meant so much to me when I wrote it, perhaps because I felt like challenging myself, the chapters in Ruby Red are each getting an illustration. This is chapter 1 "Ruby".

After several abortive attempts at drawing a canoe from reference material I went on the web and found one to download. I changed the textures to reflect the matt plastic finish I remember on Coleman canoes and added the name to the prow. Then I rendered it in Bryce. The reflected shoreline is something I couldn't work out how to do in Bryce, so it's taken from a picture I took of Bassenthwaite last October, stuck on the layer below the render (which had been set to Multiply), blurred and made 50% opaque.

Not a great piece of digital art, but I'm happy with it.