2009 Rising

Happy New Year! Here's a picture of a hanger with the 2009 mega-mylar balloon ready to launch come New Year's day.

This was actually a study to see what could be accomplished solely within the new FREE version of Vue 7 Pioneer. This file is completely built and rendered in Pioneer.

It was rendered at the highest resolution with the highest settings and has not been retouched. Please view full-size to see the marvelous ground texture created with the new fractals in Vue7 Pioneer.

The only non-standard texture is the GridModeler space frame, which imported perfectly into Pioneer. For those interested, the scene file can be downloaded and studied.

Thermal Ice Harvest

Another Speed Render. This one started out as a simple texture study using some of the new fractal textures in Vue 7 for the thermal ice material. It's amazing how the combination of the new render engine and new fractals can create such great detail.

Again, all modeled and rendered in Vue 7 (except the two figures).

The ground is a cube with terrains added, and subtracted (lower left). Used GridModeler to create the structures and simple Metablob vehicle.