I mocked this up the other day as an Aliens Sulaco-type vessel. Thanks to it’s angular nature it didn’t take long, so I’m going to just do a little modelling tidy up and then move on to texturing it.
Sulaco type ship mock up
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Encouraging results with Blender
I downloaded the latest alpha release of Blender 3D the other day, mainly down to it’s use of volumetrics. I’ve been agnosing over the last few weeks about how to create a realistic 3D nebula effect much like the Mutara Nebula from Star Trek II:
The 3D Sphere at the top of this post was created by me in Blender where volumetrics were used to create that of a 3D cloud, an effect I’ve struggled to create in other 3D apps. It actually didn’t take me as long as I thought, do I’ll see if I can start making future images with it.
I mainly used this page as a guide to creating it; Blender’s UI is still taking some getting used to, but seems well worth the effort.
I’d animate the sphere, when I can manage to work out how… 😉
Insignia Class U.S.S. Challenger
Some highish res images of the old Insignia Class for a Star Trek sim.
Something blue
It seemed I’d done a fair few orange things lately, so I thought I’d try something blue.
Done for www.stphoenix.com.
Ongoing projects.
I continue to do animation work for Sonnet films for the time being, and unfortunately cannot show anything as of yet until their official release of The Incursion. Suffice to say it’s something original and I will post the final effects and development art here when I can.
In the meantime, I also continue to do stills work for Star Trek: Phoenix, any images of which I’ll post here (as above). The producer wanted to show the relative scales of the two ships in the production.
Apologies to all those that have contacted me where I am yet to reply; I am working to get round to you soon.
Planetary Explosion
I was asked to blow up a peaceful planet for Sonnet Realm Films a couple of weeks ago, and it seemed I had very little choice but to comply…
Done mainly in 3DS Max, where the use of glow effects really helped in the final render.
Departure
Turning out very differently from what I sketched out here, this is a shot for a Star Trek Sim of a ship departing an Asteroid base.
The story required a holodeck-type effect on the doors, so I added this here but I thought it might be a little hard to explain outside the storyline:
Avalon Station profile images
A very simple model, but it’s design seems to be quite popular – So here’s some raw shots of the station to see what actual detail is there:
Here is a close up shot, well, as close as I’m willing to go on a model that was only meant to be some background dressing in a scene!
Orange Planet & Asteroid belt
Before I ruin it by putting a spaceship in the foreground, thought I’d post this up.
The barren planet texture was from a picture that Chrissie took of the rust on the surface of an iron garden roller.
Update: I fianlly got round to ruining it by adding that space station here:
Avalon station shot orbiting a star
I’ve recently been bought a new Graphics Tablet by my very kind and understanding fiance, and boy what a difference it’s made to how I create pictures. Here is a shot of the station shown in the “First Step” picture, now renamed Avalon station for the sake of a Star Trek Sim I am doing some images for.
Done in a combination of Photoshop and 3DS Max.