"What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." - Andre Gide
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BIO
I am not Vile! Back in the really old days I used to log on to a BBS with that handle and have never really changed it. Every time I join some online community it still sticks and I have been here at Renderosity since 12/16/1999.
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I am not an artist! Well at least not in the traditional sense at least. Both my Mother and Sister are terrific analog artists but I just never got into the whole paints, canvas and brushes thing. Not that I was terribly bad at it I was just never as good as I wanted to be. I am a perfectionist! Computer art really appealed to me for this reason, my favorite button became the UNDO! I love the way I can save an image and comeback to it at another time and add more or erase mistakes. Or create something so, possibly temporary as a digital image and yet have it be as effective as a masters painting!
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I am too technical! My art does not reflect my moods or expressions most the time but more of my technical abilities (I am working on this though). I mainly use Photoshop, Bryce, (occasionally Poser) and a digital camera.
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I am not my Past! I first started digital art in 1991 with a program called SPASH on a Leading Technologies 286PC. I used to sketch out an image in pencil or pen and then try to recreate it Pixel by frustrating Pixel. I created some amazing images (in my mind they were) of Dinosaurs, Comic characters and Sci-fi. All but one were lost in a computer meltdown, the one that survived I can t seem to recall off of a floppy disk either.
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I am not Brycer! By 1997 I had an Intel Pentium 133 which my Uncle loaned me I believe it had 64MB of Ram and a 1GB hard Drive. And then I met Bryce2 and many a night was spent trying to get that thing to render silly little mountains or spheres all of which as I look back on and think a 4 year old could do better! But I had to learn, I had to render!
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I am not a Master! I think there are few Digital masters out there and they know who they are! I try as hard as I can to copy or pay homage to their accomplishments. I think, that I and others have made Bryce do things it was never intended or dreamed of being able to do. I now see people doing stuff I had not even dreamed of.
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One final thought! I Say Let me never be whole! I Say May I never be satisfied! I Say Deliver me from Japanese Robots! I Say Deliver me from lame Poser Art! I Say Deliver me from bad skin and Perfect Smiles! I Say you don't have to give in and through down your hand!
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And I Say Evolve!
Comments (13)
janart
It looks real!!!
shadowdragonlord
I think it looks VERY good, no need ofr much more detail. THe image map's great, only I'm not sure you'd see so much specularity on the Earth, from space.
choppa
AWESOME!!!
SNAKEY
WOW!! WAY COOL.
Doublecrash
One hell of a map, very well rendered! Excellent one.
lgp692000
Sweet job! looks almost like the real thing. heads up to shadowdragonlord on the specularity. It is a bit heavy but the tweek I would like to see is some shadows from the clouds to add that last bit of a real orbital pic feel. unless they are right at sea level they would cast a slight offset shadow line. I can tell you worked very hard on this and I only nit-pik so that you may improve this to the "Perfect Earth" status it deserves.
pakled
hey, I can see my house from here!..;)
StormiDesigns
Spectacular!!
Bambam131
Hell, I'm impressed!!! Wonderful image!!! ;-)
danamo
It is a spectacular render!
benigndesign
Nice work. Almost perfect.
Swade
Looks Excellent. Lovely render. Don't think you could have done much better Vile. Great job with this one! 8)
Crimmy
I feel like an astronaut! Such detail and clarity!