Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Hyperdrive - Starbase 6 - pt 2

Here's some renders of my Starbase 6 model that Niel at Qurios sent over to me, and here's what it looked like in the final show
Sections of this station rotated though that's hard to see in the final show.

This is a better shot of the little hydroponic gardens that the station has.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Hyperdrive - HMS Purley Way & HMS Gower


For Series 2 of BBC 2's SF/Comedy show Hyperdrive I was asked by Niel at Qurios Entertainment to come up with some variations on the 'HMS Camden Lock'. Out of the ones I did these 2 were chosen, they ended up in Episode 6 -Convoy as the 'HMS Purley Way', pictured above, and the 'HMS Gower', below. The 'HMS Purley Way' has the most radical engine design of the 2 craft, this was modified a bit more once the meshes had been handed over to the guys at Qurios.


I made this ship look more like a cargo ship, the towers were inspired by a section of the 'Sulaco' from Aliens. Again this ship went through further alterations at Qurios

Some of the detail was made to be mix and match such as these domes.

Also some football pitches were made for fun, these ended up on the back of the 'HMS Purley Way', though you'd be hard pushed to spot them. For this render it is seen on the back of the 'HMS Camden Lock' maybe if they have home matches it just attaches onto any British Ship.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Clamp Arm WIP

This is a section of the main ship that I'm building for Gingerbreed sadly I can't show you the whole ship or what this connects to yet. The animation linked here is purely to show the working of the mechanism,the speed of the Clamp Arm etc... will be sorted by the Gingerbreed guys.

Animation Link - Clamp arm

Monday, August 06, 2007

Laser Turret Guns

When I posted my Gun Turret Animation a while back I was unhappy with the actual guns, I thought there was way too many lasers in the shot. so I made some new guns that I was going to attach to the turret, anyway this is where I got up to work wise with them, and eventually I plan to attach them to the turret and re-texture the scene etc... I decided to go with guns that recoil as I always loved the guns on the AT-AT in The Empire Strikes Back and how they fire, one then the other.

Here the animation test I did at the time of building the turret Gun Barrel test
It's just a test to see how the recoil will work.

Also here's the link back to my original animation of the turret Gun Turret Animation

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Hyperdrive - Starbase 6

Here are two of my renders of the Space Station model I made for series 2 of Hyperdrive, this featured in Episode 4 - Harvest.