Hey
Gunug... thanks for the comments! I really like it when others enjoy what I do... it's pretty close up there with the enjoyment and satisfaction it gives me...
"Painterly"... I didn't know that was a word or... it's in fact the word I used to describe
Twilight Run when I submitted it first to a website that was called Thinkpiece.com... run by a fellow named Bryan Smith. He would put up selected pieces by people who had used his presets or .dxf generating program called L-System. It's unfortunately Windows only... I used it in pieces like Anemone, Crystal Flame and Beneath The Crystal.
Anyway... back to "painterly"... I have another rendition of
Twilight Run called
Reconnaisance that I did first with Bryce presets... I decided to redo it with presets I got from Bryan's site... for the terrain, the planet in the sky and the ring around it... it's in the "textures"... when I redid it with the new ones it most definately took on a "painted" effect... although one can do it "post-Bryce" with Photo Shop or PaintShop Pro filters too. I like
Reconnaisance too, but in
Twilight Run the mountains took on such a cool painted look and the planet in the sky just
popped! It became extremely 3D looking... it blew me away...
Crystal Flame I used L-System to get the object and then decided to try something that seemed a little weird to me at first... but one can always hit "undo"... I had the water with the sort of waves I wanted and then I applied one of Bryan's terrain textures (a "lava" one) to the water and got the result you see.
As for
Bablylon 5... yes, I love it too. It was showing on our cable Space channel which is much like your Sci-Fi channel. They aren't running it right now, but likely it'll be back sometime... I see your cable picked it up in March from the Lurker's Guide:
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.htmlThat's one of the best B5 sites going although I've got several others I like... named after the "Lurkers" which as you probably know were the down and out of luck that lived in the lower levels of the B5 station.
The convention I went to here that
JMS was the star attraction at... was fantastic! The planners of the convention really underestimated just how many Albertans followed and loved B5... they kept booking his sessions into the smallest rooms only to be forced into last minute "mass moves" when the rooms overlowed with people and became too "stuffy and hot" for words. The Sunday afternoon he gave his main talk and "blooper" show... they thought we'd all cram into one of these small rooms... *LOL** NOT!!
Another "mass move" at the last moment to the biggest room in the hotel's convention centre, which worked out just "too" well for me and the two Edmonton friends with me...
We were sitting, grousing and sweating in the smaller room when they announced the necessary move with apologies.... well... the words weren't out of their mouths and we "bolted" to ensure front row seats in the bigger room.
Then having arrived there... there was an announcement that
JMS would be doing autographs after the festivities... I said to my friends... "Man... oh no! I've just "got to" have one of those Making of Babylon 5 books I saw in the store now!" I thought them a little expensive... but with an autograph and a chance to "speak" to the man... so my girlfriend said... "Go!!! Hurry, we'll make sure you have your place up here!" and I ran... got the second to the last copy... ran back to find they simply couldn't hang on to my chair... but that was OK... there was a row of people on the floor already in front of the front row of chairs! The girlfriend's boyfriend offered me his seat and said he'd hit the floor, but I was in fact "happy" to plant myself cross-legged on the floor in front of them right at JMS's feet! Best place in the house so far I was concerned...
Oh-oh... you hit my "talk" button!
[ 05-09-2003, 01:51 PM: Message edited by: Dreambird ]
