Aliens Epilogue now online on You Tube

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Recent Illustrations and Paintings

Watercolour Self Portrait

Pencil Self Portrait

Pencil Self Portrait

Pencil Self Portrait - Me Circa 1977

Stanley Kubrick Pencil Drawing

David Lynch Watercolour

Duncan Jones Pencil Drawing unfinished, director of Moon and Source Code

Recent Acrylic Paintings

Roseberry Topping,North York Moors, England.

Roseberry Topping,North York Moors, England.

Devil's Tower, Crook County, Wyoming, USA.

Devil's Tower, Crook County, Wyoming, USA.

Self Portrait

Self Portrait

Gateway Station Animation

Here's a shot of Gateway Station that I created for Aliens Epilogue, the space station was never seen in a complete shot in the James Cameron film Aliens so it was a case of trying to expand what we seen of it into a whole station. This is what I imagined the station might have looked like and Darren Kemp was happy with the look.

Click the piccy above for the animation.

Nazi Spaceship from The 25th Reich

This is an old spaceship that got recycled for Stephen Amis's upcoming film The 25th Reich that's due out in 2012 sometime.

http://www.the25threich.com/

Cerulean - Graydread 304

The Graydread 304 is the spaceship I made for Allen Etter's Cerulean film that is nearing the end of production FX wise

The ship is based on a design by Allen and a prototype model by Chenyi Lin and Josh Adams.

Blog Birthday

I started this blog back on Jan 1st 2006, I've had very little time to do updates recently, but plan to start adding more stuff now the new year is here !!!

Creatures and Things

Here are some drawings I did recently in my pad while on Holiday !!

UFO Matrix Cover

Here's a cover I did a few months ago for UK magazine UFO Matrix, to save some time the archway model was a freebie from a mesh website and the foreground tree was by a guy called Mike (Tablesaw) many thanks to them for putting these meshes up for use. The UFO is one I made in 3DS Max and the aliens which I also made in Max were rigged by Ciarán Wright of Qurios Entertainment and posed by him for this scene. The final scene was rendered in Vue with some Photoshop work.

This issue should be on sale anytime now.

UFO Matrix Magazine - Short Advert

Here's a short advert I did for UFO Matrix Magazine recently. I've also done two of the magazines future covers which I'll post here in the next few months !

Click above image for advert animation !

The Massassi Temple Room

I did this room back in 2007 for a guy in the US for a Star Wars fan movie Star Wars:The Forgotten they were making, said I'd help out with this one room they needed set in the Massassi Temple on Yavin 4. Here's my render of the finished model with some dudes for scale, think they were going to have a table or something in this room. Anyway heard nothing of this project for years, checked their website a few months ago and their forum was full of spam mail, and checked today and their whole website has vanished without trace. I know they'd shot a lot of live action, but it looks like their project is now defunct !!

Aliens Epilogue - CG Models - Work in Progress 5

There's been more work done on this in spare time by myself and SanchiEsp as well as some of the other models needed for the film.

SanchiEsp provided some great ground vehicles for this scene as well as the cool orange radar station at the rear of the above render, trees still needed for this area and some tweaks but otherwise it's nearly finished.

Love the Jordan Tractor from Aliens that SanchiEsp made in the above picture, bit of trouble getting his stuff from Maya into Max but we got there in the end.

Click on the two above pics for links to the animations on You Tube.

The spaceship without a home...yet !

I made this 'Work in Progress' ship originally as an example for Jampix but it was decided that the ship was a little to 'Bounty Hunter' looking for what he needed. So I simply put the ship into storage, recently Allen Etter was in need of a Dropship for his Cerulean project so I dusted the ship off and gave it some new textures, the ship needed to land so I made some alterations to the model (below)


Though the model was still incomplete I did some test anims of how I thought the ship should land, which myself and Allen were happy with, although looking through some older ships I found another unfinished craft here Cerulean Dropship which I thought was more in keeping with the main ship I'm also building and the look of the film. So the ship now around 80% complete has gone back into storage until it's services are needed by someone else.Here are the test animations I did of this craft for Allen's film.

Click the images below

Blue Spaceship

I made this spaceship a few years ago very quickly using parts from other craft, for a guy on You Tube who wanted a ship for a short film he was doing,anyway I knocked this out for him, and then that was it.

As far as I know nothing ever happened with the project at all. So the ship has been just sat doing nothing on my PC, so I thought I'd do a few new renders of it.

Crane Animation - Work in Progress

Quick test animation to show the crane in action.

Sci-Fi Crane

I did this sketch in a pad sometimes in the late 80's early 90's as far as I remember, anyway a few years ago I started to build this as a CG model, found it the other day on a back-up disc and spent a bit of yesterday making some changes, still a lot to do, may get around to finsishing it one day !! :)

Cerulean Dropship

Here's a ship I've made for Allen Etter's low budget SF Film Cerulean The ship was adapted from an older model I had already made some years back.

Tree animation

Here's a short animation I did in Vue to test the volumetric lights, click the picture to view on You Tube !!

Space Station Attack

A recent image using some of my older CG models, made in 3D Studio Max and Vue !!

Pollen Spore

Built in Studio Max and rendered in Vue.

H1N1 influenza virus

Made in Studio Max and rendered in Vue with post work in Photoshop.

Spacewreck

A new render of a very old low poly spaceship model.

Nanobots 2

Nanobots and Blood Cells made in Max, rendered in Vue and post work done in Photoshop. This is the 2nd pic I've done with Nanobots, the first being this one I did back in 2006 here Nanobots

Aliens Epilogue - CG Models - Work in Progress 4

Been quite a while since I updated here, not really doing work much in CG anymore, but I did say that I'd help finish the work I started for Darren Kemp and the guys over at Aliens Epilogue, Here's the update on the research base with additional models built by SanchiEsp

Engines - Work in Progress - Pt 3

Done a little bit more work on the engines for the USCSS TEAGUE

Added some figures to give you the scale of these engines and how big the overall ship will be !