Ylansi

The Sideways World

This, Ylansi, represents a glimpse into the imaginings of different worlds ranging from Railog to the lands of the Færie to other planets. These images are described with words and pictures with the galleries providing an eclectic sampling.

A variety of tools have been used over the years, starting with pen and pencil, graduating to Word Star and from there to other word processors. Page layouts are achieved with PageStream. Historically, pictures and maps were produced with pencils, though a drawing tablet and the GIMP have been utilized as well. More recently, 3D imagary has been effected through Carrara making extensive use commercial models. I even make use of Photoshop.

Screen resolution versions of select images are available in the galleries. More recent work is sometimes available in printable resolutions and can be had from ImageKind. The first part of The Three Little Pigs is also here.

All of this represents a hobby — my day job is rather more mundane work in computer security. These days the programs I write tend to be in either Perl or Python. Some of this inevitably bleeds over into my hobbies. The Rune Master role playing game magic system rules owe some of their structure to progamming and a variety of scripts are available for PageStream.