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Like I said, I'm liking ambient occlusion. Here's "Paper Chamber", made in Blender 2.42a: It has a natural-media kind of look to it that reminds me of children's picture books. The nice thing about 3D art as opposed ...

The other day I heard about Pixologic's ZBrush and decided to try it out. To make a long story short, I don't like the UI very much at all, particularly because I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to rotate the view. I much, ...

For my Middle English class today we visited Special Collections. I've been there several times before (we went there five or six times for my History of the Book class last winter semester, and I'd been there a couple of times before that), but seeing 500-year-old books is always ...

I figured I'd be more motivated to finish Phantastes if I printed out the cover and put it up on my wall, so yesterday I did just that. As part of that, I came up with a new logo for Riverglen Press, which you can see on the spine ...

I've decided that if I wait until my homework's done to proofread Phantastes, it'll never get done. So goodbye, homework. :P No, really, I went through the second chapter tonight and part of the third, and I hope to get most (if not all) of the rest done ...

Took my Graphire tablet with me today and painted this, based on a tutorial in Don Seegmiller's Digital Character Design and Painting: Better than my last one, to be sure. :) I'm learning some neat tricks (like using the healing brush for blending), and it's a ...

The Spanish Plan of Salvation is now featured on MormonWiki.com, part of the More Good Foundation: Did I ever mention that I designed a new logo for the More Good Foundation? I think it slipped ...

This morning on my walk to campus I couldn't help but notice the way the clouds and the mountains interacted, so when I arrived I opened Photoshop and painted this, called "Mount Grinten": When I first tried digital painting with Photoshop, I ...

School is proving itself extremely well-armed in keeping me from working on my various projects. ~sigh~ Hopefully I'll be able to find a balance within the next few weeks which will let me get back to the stuff I really care about (like making books :)). I haven't ...

Lately I haven't done as much design as I'd like, but here are a couple of the things I've worked on. First, the lab rules for the Center for Family History and Genealogy (where I work): This next one is a work-in-progress (I started it ...