I submitted the calendar last night (early this morning, probably). It's called "Olas I". I'm happy with the way it turned out. I wound up changing a couple of the images once I got them all assembled. That one image that took over 24 hours to render just didn't fit with the feel of the collection, so I ripped it out. The image on the front cover was supposed to be it's own month, but I didn't like the way it sat in the collection either. But I think it turned out well as a front cover piece.
So yea, "Olas I" is complete and looks great. Go buy yourself one.
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The Web Explosion
The last several years have been home to a monumental explosion of web services geared toward artwork. Because of that, my art has fractured among them all (or most of them anyway). Even my own collection doesn't include a cohesive gathering of all my work. It's spread across multiple computers and hard drives. (That's just the digital stuff. The physical, rightfully so, is in various places.) I don't like this fact. I'd like to have a place where I can go and say, "this is what I've done." I kind of hope that DA can become that place since it was the first online service I used to get into my art. I've never been particularly goo...
Calendar Redux
I probably should have began this process long ago (like maybe in January!), but I'm currently working on tweaking the images for Olas I. They were printed darker than I hoped for so some of the images lost their power (December for sure, but there are others). I'm also thinking of starting on Olas II. This one will likely be a white theme... or maybe a mixture? I don't know. I'm very partial to the dark backgrounds.
Calendar
Some time in the past few days I became inspired to create a calendar for DA. I rounded up a few of my favorite images and created some new ones. I'm now in the initial rendering phase before I bring them into Photoshop for touch ups. Most of the pieces take from between 20 minutes to 2 hours to render (even on my slower "helper" computer). However, one piece in particular took over 24 hours to render on my main machine (dual Xeon workstation). It's been a while since I've had a render farm, but apparently I need one for this project. Oooh, the things I would do if I had a render farm again. I hope to have everything through post pr...
Photography
I spent some time rooting around in closets at my parents' house last weekend and happened to discover my Canon AE-1 SLR camera. This happens to work out well since I've been looking for a new hobby (or in this case, the resurrection of an old one). I've been using a Nikon digital point-and-shoot for the last couple of years. I just dislike it so much that I have stopped taking photos. I don't even think I've turned it on in the last year. I take that back, I did have to take a photo of something for my mother and I used that camera. Photography buffs will shoot me when they read this, but for everyday things I just use the camera on...
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