My corporeal form lives with my wonderful wife and six eccentric cats in beautiful Sedgefield, but my dreaming body is frequently elsewhere, exploring the fractal universe and marveling at nature's chaos. I love traveling to places that exist only as mathematical constructs on my computer and bringing back snapshots that sometimes remind me of the real world (whatever that means), sometimes of metamagical worlds we can visit only in our imaginations. I trained as a biologist and run a small company specialising in science publishing - writing, editing, illustrating and typesetting. For 3D world building I use Vue, Daz Studio and Poser, but I've also used Bryce since version 2 and done some work with Terragen, Carrara and Groboto. For technical illustration I use mainly Illustrator and Photoshop.
Thanks for visiting my little corner of Renderosity, and to everyone who has kindly commented on my images or added my works as a favourite, thank you for that too. Craig.
Comments (42)
schonee
I thought it was real landscape at first. Great job!
shingleboot
Very beautiful image
artgum
Superb POV and love the waterfall!
kftate
Wow! What a fantastic image. Gorgeous work!!
rbowen
Very nice scene!!
flora-crassella
wonderful!!!!!
Dotthy
TOp work!!!!!!!!!!!! my fav!
efron_241
what an impressive image.. GREAT
Jollyself
very nice water work
anahata.c
well now I get to see what surrounded that "night" city, and what I missed in the darkness. And where the waterfall came from. And we get to see those swooping rock formations much more clearly. If you were a photographer, I'd say you have a major eye for dramatic pov's; and the fact that you created this from models & scratch in Vue is all the more impressive. You have a photographic eye inside of you, cinematic & still. A fine dramatic pov, the city glows through all the formations around it, the waterfall cuts right in front of everything, and the rocks on the right are lit and let us see all that's going on in their surface---the sedimentary layers, the trees (reminding us of the size of this thing), and what's presumable the lichen & mold, etc, that grows on them. And---linearly---the clouds move on a diagonal to the left just as the large rock moves on a diagonal to the right. Even the edge of the ship-front cuts in a way that makes us think we're looking at two shots of the ship superimposed over each other (when in fact it's the same ship). Fine work with perspective, angles and linear music. Your eye was placed at water level...I can't imagine what kind of design-work this takes to set up (and frankly I get a headache thinking about it: I assume this takes planning & real thought. Really fine, Craig. A fine photographic piece in Vue.
artrager
An fascinating blend of technology and nature. Outstanding work!
Rogner
great image!!!