Altar
This was the final frame of the AFCEA InfoTech '97 animation. This is also the one I wanted volumetric lighting in, but didn't feel like diddling with cones and transparencies in LW5. Everyting but the stock clip-art I modeled myself or hijacked from the Avalon archives, but, right now, I can't remember which is which.
Dark House
This is part of the Evil animation. It took forever to move around in because the tree, which were downloaded from Avalon because, at the time, I didn't want to mess around with making trees, are huge polygon count objects. It's not as creepy as I would want it, but that's mainly because there's no atmosphere. That, and the lens flares just sort of shine through everything.
House
A later frame in the Evil animation. You can see the candles I made all looking candle-ish. Unfortunately, this isn't anti-aliased to the degree I wanted, but that's what you get when you just dump frames from an anim -- anti-aliasing in animations isn't always the best idea, since things move quickly enough that you don't really notice, anyway.
Shiny Ball
That's exactly what it is. I just got bored, one day, and tossed this together. Remember what I said about liking shiny objects? Well, this is shiny. It's shiny plastic, but it's shiny. I also like the repeating reflections in the glass. That's mainly why I kept it. Everything was modeled by me.
Space 1
This was my first attempt at placing big scary space ships in a scene with a planet I created. I tried to get the atmosphere on the planet right, but since this was about my 5th ever scene in Lightwave, it didn't come out the way I had planned. In case you're wondering, no, I downloaded this primitives. With a little effort, this could look good.
A promotional video rendered in LW5.0 and assmebled in Premiere4.2. This was done to impress the board of directors. It must not have done the trick because we are currently canning the project, whether the company wants to admit it or not. I think that the imagery was a little dark. It's fairly creepy for being a promotional video for an older crowd, but it was fun to do and to mess with transparency envelopes. This 707K RM file is demonstrative of just how great RealMedia's compression codecs are -- the AVI file is 316MB.
This was actually done in TrueSpace2.0, but I don't feel like putting it over there. This one is dark, as well. It's part of a house that I was putting together wall by wall in TS2. There's more to the house, but this was all I was able to render in under 2 days(let's hear it for TS2.0's wondrous use of CPU utilization -- it's up there with MSAccess). The full animation told me it would take 55 days. The answer was no. By the way, the sound file was swiped from Waiting For 22 from Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche. Hoepfully, no one will care too deeply.
A dark, dark attempt at a walk-up to a temple of something... There are scads of trees are around and far too few lights. I like the atmosphere this one gives off. It's 900K, but it's also creepy. There's no sound to it, but that's OK. I'm not sure what else to say, other than it's actually several scenes, shot separately and reassembled in Premeire. I was trying to work on different shots within a scene. Cinematography may not be my strong point, yet.