Hey all,

Looks like Stephen Schmitt released a new version of his incredible World-Machine. For those of you who’ve never used it, it’s a procedural terrain generation program that creates the most realistic effects in the industry. If you’re a reader of my blog, you’ve probably seen my World-Machine tutorials.

Drop by his site and take a look. If you use Terragen or Vue d’Esprit you won’t be disappointed.

Hey all,

I’ve made a change to how entries are shown in the search pane and in the final tab structure. It makes better use of the snippets data and I think it can be quite appealing. There’s no bandwidth overhead since it’ll use the same accordion jQuery downloads that you’ll be piping anyway, so this could end up being a really good thing.

Change in how entries are shown.

Any thoughts?

Hey all,

Right now I’m still working on parts of the new 3dCodex.com site. Take a look at the mocks below. Chaos Group got back to me with a demo version of the latest VRay, and I’ll be unboxing that tonight and giving it a thorough investigation. I’ll start writing out a final review and posting it here.

Expect some movement this week!

Hey all,

Wanted to let you know that I’ll have some more tutorials coming down the pipe soon. I’m also working on the 3d Codex project again so I’ll have updates on that later this weekend.

For now, you can check out my posts on 3dTotal.com and CGSociety.com. I put up the entire Monday Movie lineup and it looks kind of cool to see all of the preview images in one big column.  Feel free to grab your favorites for your blog as I’ll continue to host those images indefinitely.

There’re some great photos of the Iceland volcanic ash cloud being posted over at National Geographic.  Check it out.

Incredible- and great inspiration, too.