Terregen 2

Below is a render that I did using Terragen 2.

I must say that T2 is a hard program (at least for me it is) to learn. I also have a copy of Terregen and Terregen2. The main difference between Terregen and Terregen 2 is that the #2 version lets you add objects to your renders. It is a free download so if you're interesting in finding out more about these programs just click here.

A Video From A Friend!

A friend of mine entered a video songwriting contest! What it is about is that the company posts a video of their commercial and then the contestants can compose a song for it.

The videos (with the music included) are then posted to YouTube. Take a look at the video and you can post your comments about it on my YouTube page.

Terragen 2 - Contests!

Terragen 2 is a very much more sophisticated terrain generating 3D Program. It has a lot of more powerful features that the original Terragen program. It is also available as a free download as well! You can find out more about the program by clicking here



If you already have this program then you may be interested to know that there is a Terragen contest regularly on Renderosity.com which is a place where "us" 3D Artists hang out! - LOL!

If you're interested in finding out more about these contests just click here.

Rose-Pink-Sample

Here is a sample of a pink rose that I made in Plant Studio. You can download this free 3d object by clicking here.

I'm currently working on making series of them so that I will be able to sell them online.

I have a Working From Home blog where I talk about different ways that people can earn money from home and one of the ways that I mention here on this blog and also on my Dream Job Consultant page is that one work at home idea is to take a program that is already on your computer and use it to create a business of your own.

This may definitely be a possibility with this program!

Here Is A Fractal Contest Announcement!

Fractalforums.com Spring 2010 Fractal Art Competition

Here is more information:

Fractalforums recently lost one of their Dearest and Most Talented members, Titia Van Beugen. We would like to dedicate this year's competition to her memory and we wish her family, friends, fans, and associates well in this time of great loss. Flowers, Butterflies, and images rendered with Fractal Explorer are strongly encouraged to remind us of our departed friend.

This year the annual spring competition on fractalforums.com is held for a third
time in row. There are 3 Sections, each contestant is allowed to contribute 3 images in each section. Entries may be submitted as soon as the appropriate sections in the Gallery "Go Live" and the deadline for entries is the 1st of May 2010.

After that period a one month voting session begins which will last until the
1st of June 2010.

This years prizes are for the first placed in each section, they will receive a
cup with the winning image printed on it.

The prizes this year are generously sponsored by fractalforums.com user Margit
Schüttler aka GFWorld.

The Images should not exceed 1600x1600 pixels resolution. New images as well as
slightly modified previously posted images are allowed. Post working images for color saturation, hue shifting, sharpness / blurring, and even just for fun is also permitted.


The Main Gallery is here.

The following sections are available:

1. Mandelbrot- In this section only z^2+c (The "Traditional" Mandelbrot) Formulas are allowed working
   with complex numbers. It is allowed to zoom as deep as necessary. Julia/Mandelbrot Initialisation can be used. And only one layer, but with an arbitrary coloring algorithm for inside/outside regions of the set is allowed. Interesting Deep zoom shapes may be found in the "Elephant valley" or "Seahorse Valley"
   

2. Fractal Fun - This section is meant as a "wild" section, everything concerning with fractals may be entered here. You may upload interesting Mandelbulb shapes, or any fractal type you like here!
   

3. Animation - This year an animation section is featured. Animations of all
   fractal types from IFS to Mandelbulbs and beyond are welcome! The only limitation to the Animation is that it should last at least 1 minute, and max 5 minutes.
   
   Since this forum does not host animations, entries will be handled as follows:
   
   Step 1) Upload video to youtube or similar host (if you can't access youtube, or
   just prefer other hosts, alternatives include http://www.photobucket.com http://www.vimeo.com and many others).
   
   Step 2) Upload screenshot of movie to the appropriate gallery and include a link
   to the uploaded video.
   
   Winners in all categories shall be determined by a Community Voting System using
   the "Ratings" feature already integrated to the forum's Gallery. Only ratings made in the fractalforums.com gallery on the images will be taken into account - this includes the screenshots for Animations as well as the "static" images in the other categories.
   
   If there are any questions concerning the rules, please post in this
   announcement thread for clarification.

You can view the full announcement by following this link.

Regards,

The Welcome to Fractal Forums Team.

Renderosity Has An Affiliate Program!

For those of you that don't know Renderosity.com is a web site community for 2D and 3D artists! There are lots of great free downloads of all sorts including object models, backgrounds and other free downloads for other 2D and 3D-related programs like Bryce! There are also message forums and contests and artists have their own marketplace stores where you can purchase their 3D stuff.

If you join the site (it's free to join) and become an affiliate member then you will be able to earn money when you "refer" new members to them.

There are some rules though. First the new member that you refer has to purchase something from the site within 60 days of their joining. When they purchase something within that time period then you get a percentage of the sale. You can either get paid by regular check or by Paypal. You also have to chose a minimum payout amount ($35 or higher).

I still see that a lot of members from the Renderosity.com site still have a few questions about the program - most of those questions answered on the affiliate program page.

So if you're interested in making some extra money online then you should definitely check it out!

Renderosity's Affiliate Program

Interested In A Free Fractal Program Download?

Fractal Explorer is another free fractal program that you can download for free!

I found out about this fractal program when I mistakenly downloaded a plug-in for the program even before I had the program itself!

I'm just downloading it now so I haven't had a chance to really play around with the program but I will post more about it once I have had a chance to play around with it.

Click here to download the program!

Interested In Chatting With Other Artists?

If you are interested in chatting with other artists - like other 3d artists - you can go over to Renderosity.com's Website and click on the chat-related link.

Another Free Download Model! - V4!

Here is yet another free download and this one is from Daz3D! Of course you have to become a member of Daz3d but it doesn't cost anything to join and to become a member.

V4 is an update of V3 - short for the Victoria character model from Poser. It is a base V4 model and it comes with a lot of associated files.

Personally I already have the V3 model and I would like to have the V4 model as well as long as I can be able to use both characters in the same Daz3d program. Even though the V4 character is the most recent version, I'm glad that people are still making V3-related models.

The download file size is just over 15 MB and the sale price of $0 lasts until the year 2017! Click below to go to the download site:

V4 Base Model

Free Textures

I got a comment from someone who shares my liking of things medieval! He included a link to his website and I went to take a look!

He does indeed have some great-looking textures that are available for free!

The site is Free Textures.com.

I will definitely enjoy using some of these textures!

Of course my hard-drive is getting full these days - LOL!

I hope you enjoy his site as much as I did!

I give this site a big thumbs up!

23 Megabytes Big!

I'm currently downloading a 23MB sized zip file that is supposed to include the inside of a medievil room!

I found out about this site from Renderosity.com and it includes some great historical-looking buildings including houses.

You can also download this file because it is available as a free download! Just click here to go to the site to be able to download these objects!

I have to say that while these objects are big in size they are definitely worth it if you are looking for some medieval objects to go into your renders.

I find that I LOVE these types of objects and I feel drawn to going for a more "gothic" feel to my 3D renders. This is a very great download site and it has just the kind of 3d objects that I am looking for.

While I'm still working on making my own 3d objects having more of them gives me a lot more to be able to work with.

I love the way that this room looks and I have a feeling that I will be using it a lot in some of my renders. What is also cool is that I can experiment with the textures, changing them to look other ways as well!

If this is an .obj file it will work great with my Vue or my Bryce 3d programs.

Blender - Having A Difficult "Go" At It..........................

Blender is proving to be quite a difficult program for me to understand! Mind you it took me some time to grasp the principles of Vue and even Bryce for that matter but the Blender 3d program is proving to be quite difficult for me to understand. I do have a small manual that I downloaded but I haven't gone through it yet. It's just that everytime I open the program and decide to play around with it I get frustrated!


Hopefully given some time I will be better able to understand this program.

Blender is a free, open source 3d program that you can download by clicking here

World Machine!

For all of you Terragen lovers out there I have found a great program that you can use in conjunction with the Terragen program! (Actually I didn't find it - the good folks at Renderosity's Terragen Forum recommended this program.



It is a separate program that lets you create and modify 3D terrains that you can then import in Terragen. You can build some stunning-looking terrains with this program! I'm still learning it myself and you can see my progress so far:

You see, with using the Terragen program you can still create some good-looking terrains like so:



But with the World Machine Program you can also import .bmp files into the World Machine Program and add different "filters to it and get some very good looking effercts.

Here is currently a work-in-progress that I am currently working on:



It's called:

Ancient Ruins!

You can find out more about World Machine (including a free download of the program) by clicking here!

My 3D Page!

Long before I had this blog, I had a 3d website where I posted about my interest in 3d designing. The site was hosted on AOL. However AOL has discontinued it's web page hosting so I had to move my page to another host!


Well I was finally able to move my 3D page! You can get to it by clicking here.

My page also includes some of my other renders as well as links to some 3d-related information such as free downloads and such!

I'm also thinking about selling some of my own object from this site as well!

Vue6 - I Am Still Learning!

As I said before I'm still learning how to use this program. I have also mentioned that I have the Personal Limited Edition and that puts watermarks and the Vue6 logo on all the renders.

I'm getting a lot more interested in this 3d program so I decided to find out how much the real version costs. First I found out that I have the Personal Limited Edition of Vue6 Infinite! To buy the full program costs $695. It is definitely on my "wish list!

To find out more about this program (and also where to download the Personal Limited Edition) just click here.

I'm currently on page 125 of the tutorial and here is how my work looks so far:




I'm currently working with the eco-systems aspect of Vue6 which involves being able to (and create) objects as part of an ecosystem. For instance in the picture above you can see some grass and rocks - all put in using the ecosystem option.

Instead of placing an object one at a time, the ecosystem lets you place as many of an object that you want and it even slightly changes the look of the object so that they all won't look the same!

Want Some Free GREAT Castle Models?

I just joined this site called Cornucopia3d that has message forums relating to the 3d graphics program Vue!

Right now I reading the threads where everyone is introducing themselves and I am enjoying reading about everyone! A lot of the people there have professional 3d graphics careers! (Which would be great info for my Working From Home blog) I'm also encouraged by the lot of different age ranges of the individual artists!

One particular member caught my eye when they talked about their 3d graphic models that they have made. I went to their site and saw CASTLES! - which I LOVE! I love being able to make 3d medeavil scenes and castles are a big part of that!



I should tell you that these models are large in size! I'm downloading one castle model now and its over 30 MB's in size!

But they look great and I hope you enjoy using them!

Free 3D Castle Models

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V3!

V3 stands for Victoria 3 which is a basic female 3d model in Poser!

While I still have only Poser's original version, I DO have a free copy of Daz Studio that was available as a free download and it included the basic V3 female character! It also came with an assortment of other things which resulted in the picture that you see above - (that I made!) This free download of Daz Studio came with all sorts of stuff! For female 3D models I have Victoria3, Aiko 3 and for a male 3D model I have Michael 3! The program also came with fairy-like props for V3 including wings, shoes, wand and a fairy dress which has several different textures to make the fairy dress look different!

While I'm having a lot of fun with the stuff that was included with the program I'm also itching to make a lot of other different kinds of renders and I am finding a lot of free props, clothing and hair for the Victoria 3 model! Right now I'm downloading some free 3d hair and clothing props for the V3 model. You can find some great 3D conforming clothes for Victoria 3 by clicking here and you can find a couple of good 3D hair models for the V3 character by clicking here.

The life and times of Malady

The life and times of Malady

I found this GREAT blog written by a woman and I just love it!

What I love about this blog is that she is using cartoon sketches to talk about her life - and her life and how she views it is soooo funny!

The drawings are outstanding and full of life and very funny!

I have bookmarked her blog and I think that you should visit it too because it's very funny!