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.
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Comments (15)
Cyve
WOW... fantastic lighting and fabulous composition/creation !
adrie
Stunning landscape image, superb work my friend.
artofsouls
GORGEOUS work
shingleboot
Nifty lighting effect
Black-Carrie
Wonderful creation! Beautiful done lighting-effects.
grafikeer
Love the light rays and the blue colour scheme...nicely done!
Savage_dragon
Great atmospherics. ")
wholehog
Wow! Let there be light!
auntietk
Gorgeous!! I love the way this turned out. The light is great!
Kindredsoul
amazing light!!
Kinchie
Nice crepuscular rays and woodland scene.
calum5
Stunning work:) Cheers cal
GrandmaT
Great job!
anahata.c
there's so much I still want to do here, but I'm getting over 2 hours and my writing abilities start to wane...but I'll do a couple more. In this piece, you have light rays literally taking over the piece, and dividing it into a ripple of different blues. Like what a fan does to the artwork on it, it dissects the artwork, hides parts of it in its folds, reveals other parts in the visible sections, etc. That's what you've done to this scene here. And you have varying degrees of dissolve in the trees and leaves: more of your so-sensitive layering of nature as filtered through atmosphere and mist. You know, perhaps, that one of the 'discoveries' of the Renaissance artist was of that very 'dissolve': ie, how atmosphere dissolves the presence and clarity of an object; and when the Renaissance painter started to include that dissolve in art, it transformed the more 'equal-focus' of much Medieval art (where the further you go back in space, things are still in fine focus; this is one of the reasons many medieval paintings seem "flat," simply because fore/mid and background are in equal focus, thus bringing all space "up front"; there are other reasons, but that's certainly one). Your differentiation of objects dissolved by space is just beautiful, Craig. Then the front-horse jumps 'into' that light, greeting it---beautifully conceived. And the light itself is delineated with gradated hues from light to dark, so that you create a sense of contour in the lightrays, you've modeled them into wave. I have no clue what that involves in Vue; but it's very well done. You handle light beautifully, Craig, so this is no surprise... And it's all in blue! The faded trees make for a wide ocean of images back there, and it does feel like a 'divine morning'. Quite magical and beautiful from top to bottom.
kftate
Really beautiful! I love the lighting and blue tones. Superbly done!