Office Area - Work in progress

This is something that I started a while back and I've done a little bit of work on recently, still needs modelling and dressing work but this was just a lighting test I've done and to try out some textures etc...

Vue 6 promotion 2

e-on Software makers of the Vue range of products are using 3 more of my pics to help promote their software.

The first is Nanobots which I posted here back in March
http://tinyurl.com/y7cmxq

They're also using my Derelict Structures piccy which I also posted in March http://tinyurl.com/t3la5

And finally they're using my Industrial Planet picture which was posted way back in January http://tinyurl.com/sk7mn

I've edited their posts to show all 3 pics on one page,they're actually running 2 on one page and one on the other.

To all my Blog readers...

Unfinished Drawing

I did this last summer in my sketchbook when we were away on Holiday, I tend to draw when I have no PC to mess about with. Anyway I never got around to finishing it but found it today in the book so I thought I'd post it.

Old work - Circa 1985

I may be wrong about the exact date for these 2 but they're sometime in the mid 80's.
The first picture is of a 4 Foot Long 'Super Star Destroyer' from The Empire Strikes Back. I made this model from wood, cardboard, styrene card and a pretty big assortment of kit parts. The model was made for a Star Wars convention that was cancelled at last minute, so I spent 3 months taking up may Mother's kitchen table making this model for nothing, which at the time narked me a fair bit. The model ended up on display at a local Role-Playing Store where after a few months it got dropped, the last time I seen it probably 15 years or more ago it was in a storeroom in pieces. I'd given up caring about it by that point. I never got a great many photo's of the ship, I have a couple of old stills of it under construction and a handful of Black and White pics, this being one of the better ones.

The 2nd pic is my mate Andy Conway under a make-up that I sculpted and then made up as latex appliances, which I painted up and applied. Andy was always my guinea pig, and we did quite a few latex make-up's around this time, he left my parents house one evening around 11.30 and walked home to his house around half a mile away in a burn make-up which I'd spent a few hours applying, it looked great under the street lights, I remember he said he got a great reaction from a bloke who crossed over the road as he seen Andy heading towrds him. I think Andy then went onto to terrify his mother. This make-up we did for a Super 8mm Horror film that we shot some footage for at the time. I do miss a lot of the practical side of stuff like this, it was great fun to do.

Andy's Blog and site are in my Links.

Moved to Blogger Beta finally !

Everything seems to be working OK too !

Geospheres 2

Made in Max and rendered in Vue Infinite with some Photoshop work.

Jean-Luc Picard

An old pencil sketch that I did in 1993 of Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard.

UFO Magazine Cover - Mock up

The main image on this pic I made way back when I was working on Vue 2, I added a new sky and did a new render in Vue 5 Infinite. Then I got a bit stuck as to what to do with it, as I had rendered it portrait I thought it might lend itself to a Magazine cover. So I've mocked up a cover of a UFO magazine in Photoshop 7 to showcase this picture.

The info for the picture of the UFO firing can be found here http://tinyurl.com/yn43ru
And I did the Mount Rushmore pic in Vue 3 a few years back also.

I also added a nod to Niel Bushnell's Farmageddon project with the mention of 'Zakak and Zimov' info on that pair can be found here http://tinyurl.com/yflfgk

Toxic Mover

I built this model in Studio Max 3 around 4 years ago as a background vehicle for an SF Short. Niel Bushnell of Qurios Entertainment wrote the story quite a while back, and as far as I know is still planning on making it into a CG short eventually.
This vehicle was designed to be a Toxic Waste mover, the top pod area being detachable so it can be jettisoned into the sun or dumped on a uninhabitable world etc... then the bottom module can be re-used.
It could probably do with some re-texturing and additional work if it ever gets to be used, but I suppose projects take time and Niel's has to be fit in with other more important stuff like work.

City at Sunset

Made in Max 7 and Vue 5 Infinite. Rendered at 1024 x 576 pixels on Superior setting with Volumetric Lighting. Render time 20 mins.