Creating With Light
The Exhibition


Between March 19th and April 20th this year I held the first exhibition of my work at the Harlow Central Library, showcasing 30 images which I had created over the past year using LightWave 3D software. The exhibition was very successful, gained many kind comments and I even sold several images!

Amiga-promotion was also in force!! I had a lot of people coming up to me and asking about the Amiga, the software and why I used one. Hopefully I turned some prospective buyers away from the Dark Side.

All of the images were printed out A4 size using TurboPrint with a Cannon BJC-620 printer on photoglossy paper, and then mounted and framed.

Image Information

Many more images in each of the directories!!!

Insects
These images of Dragonflies and Butterflies are some of my favourite images. The image "ChaseOverWater" is one of my all-time favourite renders, and took over ten hours with full tracing, reflection and refraction turned on. ChaseOverWater

Fish
Gramma Fish Bright and colourful, these fish are all 'real' fish and they each required extensive texture mapping. Each fish has about 5-6 texture maps created using Photogenics software. Photogenics is incredibly powerful software, and in some respects, far more capable than ImageFX3 or even Photoshop.

Space
Version 3 of my Runabout Uss Ganges model on display here, with updated textures, lighting and a little polygon-reshaping. This is one of my most complicated models and although it only weighs in at around 20,000 polys it has about 15 colour maps, each with its own diffusion and bump versions. (hehe, that's nothing compared to the 1.4 million poly mark for a model I'm building for 2260 Designs (saying that as if 1.4 million polygons wasn't such a big number :) )
Download the Runabout_3 model from my Webpage.

The Uss Pathfinder is one of those "what if.." designs which I based on a picture in the DS9 Tech manual. Sort of a Defiant crossed with the Enterprise-E type craft. As they say to the Borg, "Assimilate THIS!.."

 In warp

Other
Waggon "FutureSub" is a pic of er, a futuristic submarine. "Waggon" is a peaceful into-the-sunset type image. "TDZCity" is a still from the intro-sequence for the game The Dark Zone which I am working on. Hi to everyone at Vivid Imagination!!!

If you would like to Commission me, or have a question about LightWave 3D, Amiga graphics packages or the Amiga in general you can contact me Simon Brewer, or go and see my website on http://web.ukonline.co.uk/virtualvalley

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