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November 2015 - CGI | Sci-fi Art

Adamant Completed! And a New Demo Reel

3d 06.32.00
Hi all, The (major) work on the Adamant is done. :D  I suppose I'll always be tinkering, making her better.  I suppose this could be chalked up to the fact that the ship always is in for refit as new technologies become available, right? :)Also, a new demo reel for 2015, featuring the new ship!  The old demo reel was really starting to...

Adamant Work Nearly Done

3d 14.01.00
Just a little post today, showing work done so far on the Adamant refit.  Got the new warp winglet pods animated and ready.  I also bit the bullet and completely remodeled the wings and the thruster pods on the wings, as the curvature was a bit funky.  "Reduce speed, bring us out of warp." -- Every nerd sitting in the bathroom at one...

Finished Gingerbreed Sample Work

3d 07.20.00
So, continued work on Gingerbreed.  The guys over at HiFI3D sent me some finals yesterday featuring one of the digital sets I built for them.Here are some original OpenGL versions of the Colony set as it was being built:Since this set was to be different from the rest of the sets built previously, I started with a single panel to get an okay...

Shooting Spaceships: What Lens Angle Will You Use?

3d 08.32.00
Hi all,A bit of technical info today!  How to shoot a shot of your spaceship that's good looking.  This is a text version of a part of the tutorial I made a few years ago called "How I Make My Space Scenes", starting at about 16 minutes in: https://youtu.be/YqczD44Gf84?t=16m6sSo, you have a beautiful 3D model of your favorite starship in your software and...

Fairwell, TGST; and What a Difference 10 Years Makes

3d 14.23.00
A sad day. :(Blender Artists is the first art forum I really joined, way back on November 25th, 2005.  It's therefore been a decade in a couple of weeks since I joined that site.  On August 31, 2010, I started what would later be called The Giant Spaceship Thread. That thread was a great help to me back in the day, so I...
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