I was really surprised
that my latest artwork Bonding became the frontcover for Blenderart magazine issue # 24. I was just aiming for the Gallery when I submitted this piece but I didn't expect it would be something like this. Many many thanks to blenderart magazine!

“From out of the Deep…” conjures up images of all types of sea creatures, from the simple to the beautifully exotic. Dancing beams of light bouncing off of underwater life and hypnotic light patterns shimmering on the sea floor.
This issue we bring you fun articles and tutorials from the watery depths of our imaginations.
So grab your copy today.
Also be sure to check out our gallery of wonderful images submitted by very talented members of our community.
Table of Contents:
Tutorial – A quick little Whale
Tutorial – Realistic Water Environment
Making of – Kaldewei
Making of – Sea Anemone
vSwarm – An open distributed render farm
Now where’s the “Under Water Lighting” button?
And Lot More…
P.S.
Bonding was also featured in Smashing Magazine - an online magazine for web designers and developers.
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Hi guys! I've started rendering the scenes every night til morning. The image below is rendered in blender internal. It took about 8 min to render this one. The whole animation is over a thousand frames now and just doing a simple math 8 min * 1000 frame = 133 hrs of rendering time. *sigh* i wish i have a rendering farm to speed things up.... Only 2 months left before the september deadline and now i had a doubt if i can make it on time.
that's it for now! ciao!
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