About the software...
All of my images were done using Bryce (version 5.0 until 2008 and then 6.1) up until 2009 or so.
Newer images and animations have been rendered with various versions of E-on's Vue. Most of my humans
and animals come from Poser. Of course, no image or animation is ever left untouched by Photoshop.
"Can I use your images for blah blah blah..."
All of my images and animations are subject to international intellectual copyright law. I grant visitors to this
site the right to download my images for use as desktop backgrounds. If you wish to distribute my
images or use them in any way commercially, please contact me about leasing non-exclusive rights to
an image.
Rights are not always expensive. Whatever your desired use for an image might be, I'm sure we can work out
some kind of agreement, whether you want to use something as a CD cover, a banner ad, a site theme, or whatever.
About the artist...
Like many others, I began my foray into desktop wallpapers with an image from Digital Blasphemy. I had spent my
youth buried in video games, fantasy novels, and sci-fi shows. I loved the ideas presented, but in those days
special effects could hardly do them justice. As a child I longed to be able to see a realistic reproduction of
a dragon or deep space anomaly with my own eyes.
One day, around the age of 20, I came across a tutorial posted on DB about how one of my favorite images was created.
I got myself a copy of Bryce shortly thereafter to give it a try, and created my first few images shortly thereafter.
Despite my penchant for fantasy scenes, I began with mostly landscapes. The sky editor in Bryce provided so much
power over the mood and feel of a scene, and I was often reminded of the sunsets I watched with my mother when I was
a child. Nightscape Creations was born after my very first image as I dove headlong into the hobby.
Nightscape Creations went through several phases. Like many artists at the time I attempted to create paid galleries
like DB had, but met with limited success. In the end I fell back on provided my work for free so more people could
enjoy it, and tried to make a small amount of money from ads. Unfortunately, the site has never paid for its own
upkeep.
In my mid-20s I took a break from Nightscape Creations, and most of my other hobbies, due to a divorce. I tried to
get back to it once or twice in the following years, as you can see from the few images posted in the late 2000s, but
it never seemed to stick. While I still enjoyed it I had a lot of other responsibilities weighing heavily upon me, and
due to some other issues it just never felt as easy or natural as it once did. With so few people seeing my work,
and my inability to get new images out fast enough to keep interest, it was hard to justify the effort at all.
In 2013 I was finally able to afford my first smartphone (don't laugh!), and I discovered live wallpapers. I had
dabbled in these almost a decade earlier in Windows, but the desktop implementation was clunky and the selling process
difficult. Now I could create wondrous animations, not just images, and share them with thousands without all the
hours and dollars of advertising it once took. Further, I could post versions with extra features and easily earn
a little extra money for a family trip to the beach, a little extra security, and some updated rendering tools. I
began with an old image that was always a favorite: Orion Keys.
With its success I'm looking forward to continue creating new wallpapers, hopefully with day/night cycles and more
interactive features as time goes on.