Take me to your leader!

I would finish images sooner if I didn't keep putting in detail that doesn't even show up in the final image. For example, the rope texture and frayed end, coconuts on the beach, and the sunburn on the legs.

When I started this rendering it was almost warm outside. As I worked, the weather grew colder and started to snow. I'm sure that was just a coincidence.

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.

Simple, yet striking. The parts of the model were made in Amorphium, and assembled and textured in Bryce.

Complex textures, not only did I work a long time creating them, but it took 24 hours to render.

The memory of a beautiful scene tends to exaggerate the key points, trees are taller, valleys are deeper, vistas are wider, and the moon is bigger. I used a telescopic photo of the moon to get more detail.

In the spirit of Halloween I planned a goofy dance of skeletons, but it almost ended up creepy enough for a more serious category.

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.