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As I said before, I’ve played around with a lot of different variations on lighting the night version of “Ajisai no Kaidan”. Here’s another iteration with a bit more moonlight and a bit less lantern light.

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As soon as I added the lanterns to my “Ajisai no Kaidan” scene I knew I was going to do a night version. The tricky part here was adding other sources of light to the rest of the scene to balance out the firelight. After about 10 different test renders I think I’ve found an acceptable mix. I hope you all enjoy it! Needless to say Japan left a big impression on me. Don’t be su...

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, both Ian and Jason just graduated from college within a week of each other. For their graduation present we asked them where in the world they would most like to travel to and without hesitation they both agreed on wanting to visit Japan. We’ve been planning the trip for almost a year now and last week we returned home after 9 amazing days seei...

With Memorial Day approaching I thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to revisit my “Remembrance” VUE scene from 2017 and see if I could improve on it using Blender. I created that render to honor Remembrance Day (a commonwealth holiday) but as the poppy is the universal symbol for remembering those fallen in military service it seemed appropriate for the American observa...

I was a pretty amazing week for my family so I had to share it here. Both Ian and Jason graduated Summa Cum Laude from their universities within a week of each other! Jason, who earned his Computer Science BS, was the youngest graduate of Illinois State University this year at only 19 years old. He took dual-credit classes while in high school and earned an Associates Degree ...