Greetings: Thanks for visiting my page here at Renderosity. My real name is Clayton. I am Canadian, living in Southern Ontario. I suppose you could describe me as a middle aged man, not at all wealthy and working as a "sort of" public servant in computer support. Putting those three factors together you could also conclude that I'm too stupid to get a real job.
I will also say that I am old enough to remember the line, "Danger is my business", when I was half my current size (vertically) and sat down on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons. Hands up all those who can remember that. And while were on the subject of old, obscure cartoons, hands up those who watched Rocket Robin Hood. But those shortcomings have been balanced by the fact that I still have all my hair. AND, except for the occasional errant strand, it's still its original colour - BONUS! Take that, all you "Mr. Perfect"s out there who got all the girls in university.
My work is largely done with Poser. With Poser, I've noticed that I have a habit of diving into projects without fully realizing the overall complexities of the tasks which I create for myself. Hence the avatar I use which also symbolizes my 'chosen' profession rather well. Still, I hope you enjoy some of my images here.
In addition to Poser, I have also posted a number of digital photographs. For the most part these images are of the streetcars (electric trolleys, trams or light rail) that operate in the City of Toronto - near to where I live. Toronto has a long history of streetcar operation and is one of the few North American cities that has retained and developed its streetcar network into the present day. Unlike many other cities that are now having to rebuild their networks.
I have adopted the handle 'KatesFriend' for my work here at Renderosity. The reason is mostly due to the fact that 'Katie' was the first Poser character with which I worked. Well that, and the name Clayton appeared to be already in use here.
I discovered Poser quite by accident. A friend gave me a copy of Poser 6 for my birthday. At the time I had no experience with 3D image rendering and no interest. I also had no computer suitable to implement the package. A 100MHz Pentium 1 with 16MB of RAM and a 36kbaud internal modem running Windows 95, USED to be cutting edge Buster. So, the box sat on the shelf for a while (months) until I could install it on a computer capable of running it. Well. I had to BUY the computer first, then install the software. Then, I was hooked.
I have also provided a couple of small contributions to the Free Stuff section. My favourite is the Glowy Orb: 101 uses. It can be the thruster glow for an Eagle transport from Moonbase Alpha. A sparkly light bulb on a Christmas tree. Or just a shiney mystical ball for your cat to play with. Remember, the Glowy Orb is your friend.
Glowy Orb My thanks to the various tutorial authors that showed me how to create this useful material. PS. I should point out that Eagles were never actually depicted with glowing thrusters on Space: 1999. Nor did they ever fly in front of stars or planets when depicted in full flight. Saves a lot on production costs that way. But they were still pretty cool space ships.
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Comments (20)
twingo Online Now!
Excellent image and a bit of extra knowledge, enjoy your weekend.
eekdog
this is way cool claton. i like what you did here/steve
flavia49
wonderful
magnus073
Great job as always Clayton, this one is beyond creative and cool
MOSKETON
ME ENCANTA.
mgtcs
Awww....Such a beautiful image here, in full screen is marvelous my friend, loved the colors and textures, amazing explanation, very well done!
npauling
Well you have added lots of words to my vocabulary with this excellent posting. It is a whole new world out there. Super work with this image it is very creative with great lighting and sense of distance.
PHELINAS
All these worlds are as eyes who look us.Splendid light very mysterious coming from the universe.Bravo Kates.As always an excellent work!!!!!!!
tennesseecowgirl
Great work my friend. Hope all is well in your world. :)
drifterlee
Beautiful work!
sandra46
GORGEOUS IMAGE! GREAT WORK!
evielouise
creative image and information is a bonus love it ti's fantastic!~
Minda
Very Beautiful image clayton and Great info..
adrie
Very beautiful abstract artwork....and great info.
TallPockets
''The most commonly cited example of foriscience is autonegation.5 The phenomena of 'guaranteed failure''' HEY! .... Isn't that what CONGRESS is? .... SMILES? SUPER work above! (but ya' LOST old DUMB TallPockets on about line 1 above - HE graduated THIRD in a class o' TWO and 8th Grade were the hardest 'EIGHT YEARS' of his life!) .... GRINS.
goldie
good heavens, clayton, i think i will have to refer to you as Michio Kaku the 2nd...mind blowing narrative with one heck of an image to boot! i often wonder about the possibility of a multiverse--could explain those UFOs...
myrrhluz
This was a lot of fun to read! I love the 'so they say' bit. There are a lot of politicians in my neck of the woods that would have a very hard time accepting bubble gravity or autonegation. They haven't excepted evolution or climate change yet. If the Red civilizations came in the guise of a god, maybe they would accept foriscience though it would have to be called something else. Science is suspect after all. It's a fascinating world you paint, where knowledge from alien worlds could be collected with no real understanding of how it came to be and no way of verifying it. A world were there are Red tooling projects to an eleven dimensional temporal context but doomed to failure beyond that, and perhaps a cognizant universe insuring the failure. A world of a series of overlapping universes each as different as a civilizations' perception and conceptualization have made them. I can see one benefit of such a world right off the bat. It would drive absolutists and people that see the world in terms of black and white crazy. I love this image! I'm not sure what it is, a tooling project...overlapping universes...nanoworlds? Whatever it is, it is gorgeous! Beautiful depth, motion, and colors.
MagikUnicorn
ERY CREATIVE...WOWWW VERY COOOL WORK
kbrog
Very cool abstract! :)
anitalee
Excellent