Cedar lives in a post-civilized, Earthlike world set two thousand years after a series of events that led to humanity’s rapid decline and near extinction. Nature has reasserted its dominance in mankind’s absence and time has erased all but the … Continue reading The Follower
Some of Cedar’s earliest memories are of unhappy occasions when people from the village failed to return before nightfall. She cannot recall any one of them who was seen alive again. The Hinterlands are dangerous, especially so at night. The … Continue reading Two Worlds
Now that Cedar has properly been introduced and her world somewhat explained, the narrative will shift away from an omnipotent point of view and zoom in closer to the characters and what is happening to them within the environment. I … Continue reading Empathic Tendencies
While imagining the world where “Sci-Fi Girl” lives, a few things come together quickly. The world is post-civilization and Earthlike, though not necessarily apocalyptic. Perhaps it is Earth in some alternate form. Some cataclysmic sequence of untold events led to … Continue reading Hinterlands Cedar
As the title suggests, Van will be leaving Isla Paradiso along with his friends and family. They will set root together in a fictional location somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Brazil. I’m unsure about the future of the story. … Continue reading Leaving Isla Paradiso
In my last post, I explained how my ascent up the learning curve has me traveling through the creative use of lighting to improve the quality of renders. I decided to try lighting one scene with various different lighting schemes. … Continue reading Working with Lights (Again)
Like just about anything, these days, volumes of information about Daz studio live on the internet. Finding the gems among the junk can be a challenge. But when those learning gems are uncovered, it feels like time well spent! The … Continue reading Working with Lights
Daz Studio is a powerful tool with an incredibly steep learning curve. The trick for working with Daz is finding inexpensive 3d models to use for learning and experimenting. The Daz store along with other third-party 3d sites (Render Hub … Continue reading Steep Learning Curve
Wow! I hope you all are doing well! It’s been years since making any progress on the stories planned out for this site or since picking up “The Sims 3”. August 20, 2017, was the last time I published any … Continue reading A new Project
Lone Wolf News would like to warn viewers about the graphic and disturbing nature of the following exclusive report. According to anonymous sources, military officials have secured surveillance video recorded inside and outside Pleasantview police headquarters the morning of Ronald … Continue reading Part 20 – a lifetime together
Van relaxes in the resort commons area contemplating recent occurrences while watching another spectacular sunset. He and Skyler had shared many things during their brief but intense relationship, but never sunsets. Her work schedule, whether it was at the police … Continue reading Part 19 – very capable hands
“Gravely disturbing and unforgivable”, were the words used by Governor Alfonzo Taxmoore to describe the shooting death of Ronald Maxwell, Jr. inside Pleasantview Police Headquarters shortly before sunrise Tuesday morning. Pleasantview Chief of Police, Warren Gilscarbo, allegedly fired the shot … Continue reading Part 18 – officer down
It is late in the day, with the orange orb of Isla Paradiso’s setting sun hanging low in the sky when Louis and Phillipe relax with Van on the front porch of the Gonçalves home following Natalia’s teen birthday party. … Continue reading Part 17 – threads of possibility
Two months spent apart, separated by more than a thousand miles distance, seems to pose only a slight hindrance to the deepening friendship and blossoming romance growing between Van and Skyler. She calls him before bedtime most nights. They talked … Continue reading Part 16 – completely coincidental
Warm currents of heavy, humid air gusting from a nearby tropical thunderstorm swirl throughout Isla Paradiso’s old, colonial cathedral. Benita inhales deep breaths of sweet, rain-scented air. Obscure details, such as the smell of balsam permeating through the old church … Continue reading Part 15 – the light of truth and love
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