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Alien Planet |
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Strange plant life grows in an alien landscape. I use
color here to give the feeling of not belonging. |
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Alien Pods |
1024x768 Size: 335 |
An idea for the request
"something alien" came to me while experimenting with shapes in Amorphium.
Rendered in Bryce
for the procedural textures and atmosphere. |
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Air Ship |
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1024x768 Size: 126 KB |
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This one has a lot of hours invested. 48 of which were waiting for it to render. I
shouldn't try for so much detail during such a busy time of year. |
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Air Ship Race |
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1024x768 Size: 183 KB |
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I almost added some people to the ships, but it seemed
more mysterious leaving open the question of who or what would fly these
things. |
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Ambush |
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1024x768 Size: 147 KB |
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This is another one of those images that has been in
progress for a couple of years, put aside each time it refused to
cooperate. |
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Arcane |
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1024x768 Size: 235 KB |
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Are health potions addictive? I've been playing World of
Warcraft online, and as you can see it's influencing my work. |
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The Catwalk |
1024x768 Size: 353 kb |
I had to sacrifice some detail on the man pouring the bucket, to show the great
distance the catwalks cover. |
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The Charging |
1024x768 Size: 318 kb |
I love the hands. The figure does have flesh tones, but the extremely bright bluish
white lights washed out all the color. |
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Crossing The Mist |
1024x768 Size: 130 |
This is made from the temporary file where I assembled the ferry for the Ferryman
image. I liked how it looked on it's own so much, I composed a second image. |
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The Crow Cage |
1024x768 Size: 180 kb |
One of my favorites, it sets an ominous mood, with a
minimum of scenery. |
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Dark Side of the Moon |
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1024x768 Size: 241 KB |
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The space scenes are the most clicked on in the Sci-Fi
gallery, so I will be adding more planetary images. They will probably
remain in the sci-fi gallery, as the scaling and positioning of even the
most realistic scenes, will still be dictated by composition more than
reality. |
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Death of a Vampire |
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1024x768 Size: 298 KB |
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The idea for this one started while walking through a
bookstore, and noticing just how many books, of all types, had skulls on
the cover. Try counting them yourself next time. |
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Dragon's Peal |
1024x768 Size: 374 kb |
The dragon was originally supposed to be flying over a
shack on some rolling hills. But this background, I had done earlier, worked so well I had
to change my plans. |
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Dragon Close-up |
1024x768 Size: 204 kb |
A close-up of Dragon Flight. I've had requests for dragon close-ups for a long time now. |
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Dragon Crystal |
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1024x768 Size: 298 KB |
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Can the dragon see the future in the crystal ball, or is
it just watching the odd behavior of one of it's treasures? |
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Dragon Flight |
1024x768 Size: 134 kb |
A massive mythical dragon soars above your icons. The void beneath the clouds adds to the illusion of height. |
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DragonSlayer |
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1024x768 Size: 275 KB |
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He tricked the beast into wedging itself in a tight
place, but it still looks like a tough fight. |
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Dragon Nest |
1024x768 Size: 402 kb |
The concept was to contrast the attraction of a cute baby v.s. the revile of a nest
of bones. |
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Dragon's Pool |
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1024x768 Size: 239 KB |
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I don't know what the glowing liquid is, but the
inhabitant doesn't seem to mind. |
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Earth Fell |
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1024x768 Size: 277 KB |
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A sight that can never be seen in reality. |
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Earth Rise |
1024x768 Size: 239 kb |
Is this science "fiction?" actually yes, the Earth as seen from the
moon is much smaller on the lunar horizon. |
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Eclipse at Strange Beach |
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1024x768 Size: 194 KB |
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Normally I don't do images with alternate versions, but
I liked both version of this one too much to drop one. A link to the
other is on the wallpaper page, above the image. |
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Enchanted Shrine |
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1024x768 Size: 242 KB |
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Long forgotten, but the magic remains. |
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Encounter |
1024x768 Size: 167 kb |
I really like how the lighting adds to this image's
surreal quality. My sister in law requested this one, and I think it tops the fairy
series. |
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Exodus Stones |
1024x768 Size: 163 kb |
A magical ring of stones, can you think of a
better way to travel? |
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Explorer Discovery |
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1024x768 Size: 318 KB |
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Image transmitted back from an exploring rover on an
alien planet. |
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Fairy Pet |
1024x768 Size: 222 kb |
Tiny fairies, no wonder they are so hard to find in the
real world. I tried using a photo of an actual field in the background, although it's such
a small area it's almost a texture map. |
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Far Keep |
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1024x768 Size: 432 KB |
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This one refused to finish rendering. I had to render it
in pieces, and stitch it together. It's like the owner of this Keep
didn't even want me messing with it. The wide version shows more of the
maze. |
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Ferryman |
1024x768 Size: 253 kb |
Creating this many pillars individually would have been impossibly complex. I
instead made a solid block, with a grid of negative cylinders inside, carving out the archways. |
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Final Hour |
1024x768 Size: 141 kb |
Inspired by Y2K, I had some problems when an
error wiped out 4 hours of work. (I thought it was saving, but it actually
wasn't.) |
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Fire and Ice |
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1024x768 Size: 220 KB |
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a Dragon attack, 3 dragons ambush a larger one. I like this one, I may add more detail to the background and see if it will work as a poster. |
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Fire Born |
1024x768 Size: 161 kb |
And you thought it was chilly when you came
out of the womb... |
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Fire Drake |
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1024x768 Size: 389 KB |
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This little monster fought me from beginning to end. I'm
happy with the outcome, but it took forever. |
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Fortress |
1024x768 Size: 302 kb |
Dramatic lighting on a dark castle. If you look carefully, you can see the lowest level enters the rock on each end. |
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Four Dragons |
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1024x768 Size: 350 KB |
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These four dragons are all actually the same purple
dragon rendering with the colors altered in Photoshop. Never
underestimate Photoshop. This one works great when tiled!
See the individual dragons: Midnight
Sun Fire
& Ice |
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The Horde |
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1024x768 Size: 437 KB |
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This was an image I tried to do years ago, but lacked
the computer processing power. It still crashed a couple times, but
nothing will stop this mob. |
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Garden Path |
1024x768 Size: 458 kb |
I was planning on a set of fairy images, but I had so much trouble getting
the wings similar to what I wanted, I may not do as many as I had originally planned.
The flower is a slightly modified model from Ray Dream Studio. |
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Garden Wall |
1024x768 Size: 423 kb |
The wall is entirely made up of Boolean primitives in Bryce (plus a bitmap texture
of course.) |
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Infatuation |
1024x768 Size: 280 kb |
| This one has turned out to be one of the most popular images on the site. Downloaded over 1000 times
on it's first day. |
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The Interface |
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1024x768 Size: 303 KB |
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This one came out a lot better than I had hoped for. I
was going to make the face look plastic, but it is much more mesmerizing
staring into this face on your desktop. |
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Kinetics |
1024x768 Size: 197 kb |
I drew the bump map (planet surface) in Photoshop,
and spent too much time trying to get it just right, because only 10% shows up in the final image. |
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Luminance |
1024x768 Size: 177 kb |
| An experiment with atmosphere and light in Bryce, which turned out to be a monster to render. |
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Making Waves |
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1024x768 Size: 171 KB |
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Make some waves, question your reality. |
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Memory Crystal |
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1024x768 Size: 157 KB |
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Perhaps one day soon our computers will store data in
crystals. |
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Midnight Dragon |
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1024x768 Size: 222 KB |
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This one came from experimenting with skin colors for
another image, I'm not using it there, but had to share this close up.
See other color versions: Sun
Fire Ice
& all Four in one. |
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Moonshrooms |
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1024x768 Size: 361 KB |
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On the edge of the giant mushroom plateau, watching the
moon rise. Got all the way to uploading this before noticing one of the
mushrooms didn't light up. I had to remake 1/3 of the image. |
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Nebula Earth |
1024x768 Size: 107 kb |
| What would the earth look like if our solar system were near
a reflection nebula? |
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Night of the Alignment |
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Is she drifting up toward the aligning planets, or leaping off the balcony at the most dramatic moment? |
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Obliteration |
1024x768 Size: 83 kb |
| The day I finally win the lottery... I thought the toughest part of
this one was going to be the impact point, but it turned out to be the easiest. |
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Orcas' Dream |
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I first used these Orcas I made in a logo wallpaper project for including on computers sold by
Ice-Comp. I'll probably use them again sometime. |
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Pegasus |
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1024x768 Size: 105 kb |
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I wanted to keep this one simple and elegant as the subject. The clouds resisted remaining
simple, but the effect worked just as well. |
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Pit Stop On Planetoid 9 |
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1024x768 Size: 553 KB |
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This one was a trick to balance contrast between
monitors. Some monitors the shadows appear light, others very dark.
(luckily, both extremes look good.) |
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Planet On Onyx |
1024x768 Size: 83 kb |
| My first attempt at rendering a planet. Part of my Onyx Table series. |
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Pump Station |
1024x768 Size: 223 kb |
| On a hazy green planet, an odd sci-fi pump siphons from a pool of liquid, beneath a nebula filled
sky.. |
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Purple Haze |
1024x768 Size: 262 kb |
| This may look like the planet in Ring station, but this one is actually
using a moon texture, and realistic rings. |
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Quiescence |
1024x768 Size: 369 kb |
| A long forgotten magical place, or is it what happens when no one is
around to see water play? Based on my experiments with drawing water ripples with
the terrain editor in Bryce. |
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Red Moon Ruins |
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Someone has been here before, or are they here now? The
rocks surrounding the formation are reminiscent of a crowd gathering for
some ancient ceremony. |
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Reef Palace |
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I tried the hall in red, but it made the ocean outside
less noticeable, and if the lights are designed to allow the best view,
so should the color choice. |
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Ring Station |
1024x768 Size: 354 kb |
| The original plan was a large planet, with a couple big satellites.
Apparently the inhabitants evolved faster than I could draw them. |
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Robot-f6 |
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Every 3D artist has to eventually do a version of the
shiny female robot, I think it's a requirement. |
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The Sacrifice |
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1024x768 Size: 159 KB |
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I had finished a version of this one a few months ago, but lost half the work in a computer crash. The fun was gone, so it took much longer to re-create. |
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Sea Haven |
1024x768 Size: 208 kb |
| This one was originally going to be for the Scenic Real World gallery, but
became too magical a place to find just anywhere. |
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Sea Serpent |
1024x768 Size: 203 kb |
| Possibly the reason we never hear of the true sightings, is because the monster sees the witness as well. |
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The Second Moon |
1024x768 Size: 263 kb |
| What if Earth was only a moon, the second moon, of some large planet?. |
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The Sixth Hole |
1024x768 Size: 419 kb |
| Visit this fantasy golf course for some extreme golf. be careful, this is
an un-fairway. |
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Skull Warrior |
1024x768 Size: 114 kb |
| An undead soldier with his scavenged gear, stands ready for the impending attack. |
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The Tram |
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A futuristic mode of transportation makes a late run for
passengers. |
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U.F.O. |
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Based on many stories of lights hovering in the woods.
Personally, when I need to go behind a tree, I turn off my headlights. |
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Under Attack |
1024x768 Size: 301 kb |
| Laser beams take awhile to render. That's what I learned during this one, luckily I didn't get too
carried away with them. |
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Unicorn Grace |
1024x768 Size: 393 kb |
| Finished, scrapped, and restarted 3 times, I think I'm
getting too critical. My concept was shady, yet well lit. Of course,
a paradox. |
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Unicorn Love |
1024x768 Size: 203 kb |
| Here's one for Valentine's day, in fact, I had to rush to release it on February 14th. |
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View From Tempest IV |
1024x768 Size: 295 kb |
| I worked on lighting this one for several hours. I finally ended up with
lighting similar to what I started with, the trick was to keep the pinkish mist from
affecting the light inside the dome. |
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A new screensaver featuring a collection of my science fiction
images is now available, compiled by Jerry Campbell at CamTech,
look for "CT Space 1.0."
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