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"A King's Remembrance," (8"x10", Oil on canvas) A portrait of my P-D-3.14, from a sketch from last fall.

A sketchbook sketch for my dear friend, Tani! :)

My very first con-badge, for Conifur 2004.

Sketchbook sketch for the foxes.

Sketchbook sketch for my dear friend and kindred spirit, Jaryic.

Sketchbook sketch for my dear friend and kindred spirit, Nightfox.

Logo Design for the Alaska Recreational Dog Mushers Association. (Registered trade-mark of the ARDMA.) Oh, and there are two new tutorials on the Worley Labs' website, (http://www.worley.com ) on techniques for using "Sasquatch" to do the kinds of Lightwave 3D furred Be-ings I do... (It's just one "facet of the Diamond," take the information and run with it - finding your own best ways of doing things! :)

A li'l guy just a-rooin' to his heart's content.

The rising Song of the Wolf...

The Scene for "Within the Tall Grass," as it looks through Lightwave's Layout Viewports. Rigged following the Techniques in "Lightwave 3D 7, Character Animation," the Cheetah is completely animatable. Special "Lighting/Shading modification possible with Worley Labs' "Sasquatch" Hair/Furring System allowed VGA resolution "Plate" of Cheetah to be rendered in just under three minutes. Free Tutorial of Technique will be available shortly online from http://www.worley.com .

Its been a long day in a week of long days, and Bakita prepares for a blissful and beautiful sleep, snuggled and safe under a giant downey comforter.

For all the "tech-hounds" out there, here's how a Scene from "Ghost Warrior" looks while it's being worked...

Quietly gracing the rising sun with her presence, a snow-leopard bathes.

The current issue of Keyframe Magazine, (#31, http://www.keyframemag.com,) is running a couple of articles of mine that may be of interest to other Artists doing Fur, Hair, or Scales in 3D... "The Battle For Fur and Hair" gives an in-depth look at the Fur and Hair "Plug-Ins" for Lightwave 3D. And the Instancing Plug-in used to create the Dragon in "Enchanted" is also explored in that issue. ("Enchanted" is also the cover of the magazine.)

"Best Friends," (LightWave and Digital Fusion). More character tests/pre-production work, (that just happen to also be a gift for my nephew's second birthday. :)

Blueberry (18"x24", Oil on Canvas). Finished painting in trade for my dogsled. (If any of you out there are looking for a dogsled, I highly recommend the guy who hand-made mine. The sled handles like a dream - I can slalom back and forth behind the dogs with just the barest shifting of weight. His sleds are flexible and sturdy too - but I'm not going to talk about that. :P )

In the quiet moments, there has been time to paint. It has been a wonderful healing salve for the soul. This is the under-painting for a commissioned portrait for the family who made my dogsled. This is Blueberry, one of their leaders!

"Boulie" (Lightwave 3D). Detail from the 2003 Yukon Quest poster.

"King of the North" (20"x15", oil on canvas). Painted portrait of Boulie, (which inspired the markings of the recently uploaded detail). Boulie is this wonderful soul I had the pleasure of meeting at the Fox Waterhole, a natural spring where I get water for the coming week. His human companion was interested in my doing a portrait of him, and so here he is.

The finished commission for Brenna G. (Oil on canvas, 16"x12") This photo leaves out a lot of the subtleties in color and detail; I wish there were a way to get it to look on screen as it does in RL.

Logo Design for a friend of mine who runs an air and boat supported vet service that attends to the needs of the Alaska bush. (The majority of Alaskan communities are reachable only by air or boat -- health care for humans or animals is worth much more than gold.)

Feelin' pretty! (Cell-shading test, [3D looking like 2D,] work-in-progress.)

Justin Case anyone wants to do that "peek behind the curtain" thing... here are the wireframes and bone-weights for "Feelin' Pretty." (Lots of folks on the 3D forums ask... thought there might be some here also who'd groove on this kind of "Oh, that's how he did it" thing. :)

"Feelin' Pretty." (More final version of the 3D model.)

Another pose... 3D cell-shaded Woof... (She looks a lot like my Keems... I don't know why. :P )

"Cloud-walker" LightWave/Sasquatch/Digital-Fusion. The end-image for a recent tutorial on how to do Wolf Fur. The tutorial should be making its appearance soon on http://www.worley.com .

A wolf contemplates the echoes of the flute as worlds resonate in sympathy. (12"x16" Oil on canvas)

A very sweet and wonderful person mentioned to me that this one should be coloured. You know? She was absolutely right. She did a beautiful job of coloring it herself... it was so sweet! But you know... my drawing underneath her coloring was all scratchy and yucky so I did a pass of cleanup on it, and threw some colors onto it... I've got to see if there's a way to have _both_ of our colorings up here 'cause she did such a cool job! :)

"Daybreak: Denali" (Lightwave 3D). (Inspired by Parrish's "Daybreak.") I decided to take my own advice in learning to become a better artist: Find another artist who's work you deeply admire, and re-create a work by him/her. As you do this, you begin to Internalize the decisions they made in creating their own work -- the idea is not to copy, the idea is to understand their decisions and make them your own. This homage was done entirely in 3D.

"Daybreak: Denali" (Lightwave 3D). This is the Scene for "Daybreak: Denali" in Wireframe. (I don't know if anyone out there is interested in seeing this -- I can only speak for myself, but I am always more fascinated by seeing other artist's sketches and works-in-progress than in the final, polished piece. Seeing what goes on "under" the polish shows you how You can do the same thing in your own work.)

ruff cleanup of a character inspired by another dobie character in a film i just can't recall at the moment. haven't thought of a name for him at the moment, but i'm sure something'll stick :) spent waay too much time at work talking so ink and paint'll have to wait 'till tomorrow or so. TTFN! :) (TahTahForNow!)

Diamond Multimedia Graphics Cards are back and better than ever! (Box Art for the "Viper" line.) Also wanted to note that there is now a "Studio Tour" of TA Animation available from the "Ghost Warrior" website. And there is a tentative DVD distribution deal for a Special Edition "Ghost Warrior" DVD (including a 1-hour 'mockumentary' on its creation). The website will soon be accepting pre-orders that will not be billed until the unit ships, but the deal only goes if there are at least 700 pre-orders by the first of December!

Not all cheetahs are created equal... :P

Please don't die... I've loved you too long to have you leave like this.

Just a coffeeshop doodle... A femenine cheetah in a victorian-style dress whispering her dreams to the winds.

"Enchanted" (Lightwave 3D). This was an experiment using Happy Digital's "HD_Instance" plug-in. (There are over 200,000 fully-reflective items, [Scales and Coins,] in this Scene.) (And also, a great cheer for Yerf being up again. You don't know the positive impact something has in your life until it is no longer there. Yerf does a great service to this world... by simply being what it is.) (Prints are available at: http://Timothy.WetCanvas.com/prints/ )

"Essential Lightwave," is a book for anyone who has ever admired 3D Artwork, but wasn't quite sure how to get from "point A" to "Kick-Bootie Render." 3D is _easy_, when you know the tricks the Professionals Use! Pre-Order through http://www.wordware.com/lightwave

P.S. "Essential Lightwave" also comes with a full demo version of Lighwave 3D, (non-time-limited, I believe,) a 50-dollar coupon off LW, and about 200MB worth of free and shareware plugins and external programs, including the full version of Cinepaint, the 48bit paint program used on "Harry Potter," "Men in Black 2," "Scooby Doo," and more! (This is in addition to all completed Scenes, Models and Textures for the exercises in the book - if, like me, you learn best through exploring how someone else works!) (Image is an Early version of Kaze)

And for those of you who may be thinking, "Wow, I'd love to get into that 3D stuff, but there's so much to learn..." My new book, "Essential Lightwave" has just hit the street - it gives you the practical experience of someone who has worked in The Industry for between five and eight years, telling you how to do and solve things you really want to know, (like wolf head modeling, fur, cloth and compositing - this image comes from one of the many step-by-step tutorials!) (Buy the book - book and art sales are how this wacky dreamer makes a living! :P )

"Forget it Mac. Its Chinatown." No, Todd isn't back... not yet at least. Artists are delicate beings, and must be handled with respect and care, if they are going to be able to maintain their connection their connection with the Creative. In the interim, here's a Film Noir-ish coffeeshop doodle.

"First Love" (24"x18", Oil on canvas)

Goddess Bless... for all the innocent souls who passed beyond this day. May the Loved ones you leave behind be comforted in the days and years to come.

"Gentle Musher." The Poster for the 2002 Yukon Quest; also available as a T- and Sweat-Shirt from http://shopyukonquest.com/IBS/SimpleCat/Shelf/ASP/Hierarchy/04.html (All proceeds go to the Yukon Quest.) And for those of you not familiar with Mushing, this is how nearly every musher feels about his/her dogs. (Pictured is Rascal.)

So that's it. I'm outta here. I'm on my way north to a land where there are places that roads can't take you, a land where Nature is as much a part of everyday life as is breathing. I'm off to dance with the wolves, to walk under skies that don't know the lo-glo of city lights, to find again a meaning for things that at one time needed no explanation.

"Gone Mushing!" ...just what it says, doc!

Another quick sketch... takin' some time for myself this weekend. :)

The Teaser-Trailer for Ghost Warrior is online at: http://www.wordware.com/ghostwarrior/Trailer/ (MPG1 is 4.7MB, DivX5 is 20MB, QT6 is 27MB). It will soon be linked through the Ghost Warrior main page, but wanted to get this out there just in case any of you will be attending SIGGRAPH. Look for the full NTSC resolution version to be playing at the NewTek booth.

KGW

Good-night, sweet prince...