Well, I’ve continued my explorations of Vue. And I guess there will be a couple of more of these entries until I’ve learned everything about this new tool in my arsenal. New productive tools are always a joy to learn.
Today I explored constructing my own terrains by painting them with the airbrush and then constructing a river in it with some foam on the shorelines, and having it populated with an ecosystem were I explored some more about controlling placement and distribution of the objects using functions connected to the rest of the environment.

Well, have had a soft weekend, but tonight I got some time to continue playing around with Vue. I just continued learning about Eco Systems in Vue, a very powerful feature that really seems to rock.

Here is a small Eco System render I just created. Enjoy. ;)

Music for Vue’ing: Lars Winnerbäck - Live Summer ‘05

Amazing, blog entries two days in a row, that hasn’t happened for months. I hope this is a good sign and that it’ll continue down this path.

Experimenting with how to simulate foam at a shoreline

Today I am attending a wedding, for a colleague at work, but I had some hours during the morning to spare to continue my Vue explorations. It’s becoming very intriguing with Vue as I start to learn the different possibilities with it, and also leaving the basics and coming up with my own solutions. Next week will be a Vue week where I plan to finish my explorations of Vue and then have all knowledge I need to let it be a part of excelling my productions.

Exploring the different Global Illumination settings of Vue
(A pretty dull image I know, but I learned a great deal.)

Working Music: Broder Daniel - Cruel Town

I haven’t written in my blog for a long time. Mainly because of my current work at GA has been taking up more or less all my time and I really haven’t had any time left over for personal things like Artstorm. Now I think I have been able to plan up things so I can dedicate more time towards my Artstorm projects though.
So let’s keep an eye on the site and see what happens in the next couple of weeks, hopefully there will be some action around here. :)

On another note, I purchased my Lightwave [9] preorder the other day, together with the Vue 5 Infinite bundle (an incredible deal by the way). LW[9] won’t be out for a couple of months, but my Vue 5 discs arrived this week. So I just started playing around with Vue tonight to start learning this software.
My first impression is that is seems to be very interesting, especially to accompany Lightwave with creating environments to composite Lightwave renders together with. I’ll for sure spend some time to really dig into Vue to learn more aspects of it.

Here is my first Vue render that was just completed an hour ago. Well, it’s my first, trying out the interface and some functionality, and I’ll continue posting some more renders as I continue to explore Vue.