Race Day, just on dawn ... the story is, this guy has rebuilt an old machine, it's faster than it ever was, and today's the day he...

  IBL and Photometric lights Today's experiment was to work out the best way to light a set. In the olden days (ha!) of raytracing, you ...

This is where it gets really, really interesting! That's Michael 4, rendered in Iray ... and I've figured out how to get decent...

Only one image today, because it's been rendering all day! As promised yesterday, let's repeat the process and see about the star...

Natural sunlight ... and pretty darned convincing ... I even remembered to have the character squint a little, which he would in these li...

That's pretty good -- it took a lot of wrangling, but at least you can see where the work was invested! I'm actually very happy w...

Stargate , anyone?! As I said in m last post (this morning!) I've just started to unpack a load of goodies I bought in 2013 or so,...

Just one image today ... but it is a humdinger. A new character and hair -- and I'm running tests to see how it renders. A treat, is ...

Hmm. Not bad ... I left this rendering for a couple of hours after I went to bed last night, and it's fairly creditable. That's m...