It was the time of confusion, the time of frustration and the time for a lot of swearing.  It was a new age, it was the end of hard-disk space.  The date is May 1998, the place, Ann's PC.

I make no apologies for the images on this page - after all, everyone's gotta start somewhere, right?

		This was one, if not *the* first image I ever did in TrueSpace.  It's about as basic as you can get.  A plane enlarged to cover the grid painted with a wood texture, and a sphere painted with a glass texture in the centre.   I changed the coloured lights to plain white, and enabled raytracing because I wanted to see what it could do.
		This image was my first experimentation with boolean subtraction.  I created a cube, then created a second one and made it slightly smaller, and subtracted it from the larger one to give me a box.  I then stuck the glass sphere from the above scene inside it, covered the plane with a tile texture and rendered using the same white light setup and raytracing.
		This again was created using boolean subtraction.  I started off with a cylinder with a larger bottom radius, turned it upside down and used the same procedure as stated above.  The straw is just a very long thin cylinder with a shiny red texture applied.  The same lighting and rendering effects as above.
		This is where I started to get a little braver.  I used resized cubes booleaned together and then stuck the glass on top, using the same lighting and rendering effects.  As you've probably realised by now, my bravery didn't extend to messing with the lights or viewing angles.
		Having cottoned onto the boolean idea, I knew that I could put this to use for bigger and better things.  So during a lunchtime at work, I created the pencil.  Not a particularly difficult item, but I was very proud when I finished it and it looked realistic.  Animating it was something else entirely, click here to see one of the results.
		The inspiration for this was the metaballs tutorial in TrueSpace.  The tube was a booleaned cylinder with a glass texture, the ball was given rubber properties.  Click here for the results.