Just a Sphere

So, uh....this happened.

It felt good to actually sit down and MAKE something. Recently, I've been too burned out on doing any kind of art, but doing something completely pointless (like a circle) in photoshop was appealing. So I sat down and coughed up this.

It's nothing too complicated. Lots of texture layers below gradients set to "multiply". Learned how to make depth maps, though, which'll be amazingly useful in the future, I'm sure. Please note the added Fresnel on the spherical textures. (JARGON!)

Textures are all from CGTextures.com, of course. Textures include some concrete, plaster, a night sky, and a couple of water textures.

And...uh...it's a sphere. ENJOY!

Speed Bingo

*Brushes the Cobwebs off the Desk*

Here's a completely useless, but interesting project I worked on, spurred by a whim. At work they have "Safety Bingo", in which all the employees compete to win a pot, which increases by a dollar each day nobody dies.