Andrew Glazebrook - My Art Blog

Gateway Station Animation

2012-01-03T00:17:00.003Z

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

2012-01-02T19:33:00.002Z

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

2012-01-02T18:59:00.003Z

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

2012-01-01T15:22:00.003Z

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

2011-08-03T16:37:00.002+01:00

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

UFO Matrix Cover

2011-08-02T15:51:00.003+01:00

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

2011-05-31T16:18:00.002+01:00

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

2011-05-09T21:09:00.003+01:00

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

2011-04-04T01:05:00.006+01:00

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 !

2011-03-31T22:34:00.004+01:00

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

2011-03-31T20:00:00.003+01:00

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

2011-03-31T09:15:00.003+01:00

Quick test animation to show the crane in action.

Sci-Fi Crane

2011-03-31T02:40:00.003+01:00

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

2011-03-26T16:29:00.003Z

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

2011-03-13T12:57:00.001Z

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

2011-03-10T10:21:00.001Z

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

Pollen Spore

2011-03-03T01:34:00.001Z

Built in Studio Max and rendered in Vue.

H1N1 influenza virus

2011-03-01T21:04:00.000Z

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

Spacewreck

2011-03-01T11:45:00.001Z

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

Nanobots 2

2011-02-23T11:01:00.003Z

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

2010-12-29T16:18:00.005Z

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

2010-05-07T16:08:00.003+01:00

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 !

Aliens Epilogue - CG Models - Work in Progress 3

2010-04-30T15:01:00.004+01:00

Here's a bit of an update on the stuff I'm doing for Aliens Epilogue

Here's the work on the ground base and the area the dropship is going to land, still other buildings and details to be added but this is coming together !

And this is soing to be Gateway Station that we seen in the opening of Aliens !

Aliens Epilogue - CG Models - Work in Progress 2

2010-04-08T12:02:00.005+01:00

Here's a test animation that I've done for Aliens Epilogue, the dropship still need some modelling work and then textures adding. The bay still need other details and the loading bay above need sonstructing with the main crane that lowers the dropship into this bay.

Aliens Epilogue - CG Models - Work in Progress

2010-04-02T20:17:00.005+01:00

At the moment I'm doing some CG modelling for an Aliens fan film made here in the UK called Aliens Epilogue Some of the work is to expand existing locations for long and aerial shots, and also the building of a Dropship and Gateway station.

Here's some WIP's of work I've started so far. The final dropship,once complete, will have adjustments made to the cockpit area to make it match the cockpit of the Helicopter the live team shot the scenes in. I figured I'd make the standard dropship first, or something close, then work out how best to fit the new cockpit on later with a few concept sketches.

The movie is written,produced and directed by Darren Kemp and features amongst others Terry English, who made the Marines Armour for Aliens, as well as Excalibur and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, and Trevor Steedman, who palyed Pvt. Wierzbowski in Aliens

The site for the movie can be viewed here http://aliensepilogue.com/

Engines - Work in Progress - Pt 2

2010-03-29T22:04:00.002+01:00

I called in a favour from artist Dylan Teague regarding a ship design to go with the engines I'm making. His first design (above) I loved, but it wasn't the type of ship I was after, though I can see myself building this design in the future ! His second design (below) is much more like what I was after, a chunkier bulk freighter type of craft, I can really see the type of detail 'm adding to the engines on this type of ship, it has the look of a Tug, kind of like the Nostromo dragging that huge refinery through space.

I can't thank Dylan enough for doing these, so from now on the ship will be called the USCSS TEAGUE. If you're not familiar with his work check his blog out here

I'll have an update on the actual CG model of this ship soon. Thanks again Dylan !! :)

Engines - Work in Progress

2010-03-18T18:13:00.003Z

Here are some engines/intakes that I'm working on at the moment, heavily inspired by the Nostromo from Alien, now all I need is a ship to go with them !! The texture I'm using is only temporary at the moment !

Happy New Year

2010-01-01T00:21:00.000Z

Happy New Year to all, wishing everyone the best for 2010, and it's also my blog's 4th Birthday !!

Cyclops Shuttle - Work in Progress

2009-12-29T18:02:00.005Z

I built this ship as a scratchbuilt model out of plastic card and kit parts back in the early 80's, it had only been built a few days when it had a run in with a desk lamp, it lost it's rear wings and the front cockpit got smashed up, it underwent a few repairs but I never got around to ever fixing it back up fully.

The picture at the bottom of this post is the only photo I have left of it. Anyway I decided to make a CG version of the ship and make some adjustments, such as the engines and the underside, the bottom of the model was basically just flat with some panel detail, the CG ship will have a more detailed underside.

The reason I called this the Cyclops was when making the original model I had some decals off a few different model kits and one had the word Cyclops on it twice, so I decided to use those, you can't see it on the photo but it was in roughly the same area as I've placed it on the CG version.

The original model after it's accident, as you can see around the front cockpit, there's an area of broken plastic, and the smaller rear fins have gone. It's a pretty washed out picture taken with just a bog standard family camera at the time. I was never happy with those engines I'd glued on, which I think were made from some small sized AT-AT feet, so the CG version has new engines with an extra fin for detail.

Blake's 7 - Domed City - Work in progress

2009-12-06T11:31:00.004Z

Here's something I'm working on at the moment, it's my own version of the Domed City seen only in 4 (rather poor shots) in Episode 1 of Blake's 7, plus the opening credits of the show.Going to add some landing pads to the side of the dome from where the prison ship London takes off in the first episode.

Here below is the dome as it appears in the show in just a handful of scenes !

UFO Tests - Work in progress - Part 3

2009-10-26T18:00:00.002Z

Here are two more clips I animated with the UFO model for fun when I made it, 3D World magazine had a UFO sound effect free with it this month so I thought I'd add some sound and post these !!

Alien Illustration - Circa 1987

2009-10-05T16:32:00.002+01:00

I found this during a clear out of junk recently, I've had to give it a bit of a clean up in Photoshop as the original picture was a bit yellowed and had spray paint spatters on it. This Giger-esque Alien was drawn by me around 22 years ago, and looking back I've realised was a bland pose it is in, hardly the most dynamic drawing I've seen, also not quite sure about my thinking of the fact the Alien appears to have two penis like appendages ?! Still I thought I'd post this old picture as I still quite like it !!

The candy-colored clown they call the Sandman.

2009-09-28T22:19:00.001+01:00

Found this while clearing out some old drawings etc... Never got around to finishing it, it's Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth from David Lynch's Blue Velvet and I probably drew this around 1988. Even though it's unfinished I thought I'd post it up for all to see !!

Robot Head

2009-09-07T16:07:00.002+01:00

Here's something I made a while back that I recycled partly form the Cyberman head I'd made earlier and posted here back in 2007. Suppose it's some kind of robot head, but it's also inspired by the Helmet's from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and games like Killzone. Made in Max 7.

UFO Tests - Work in progress - Part 2

2009-09-05T23:32:00.002+01:00

Been doing some work on the UFO model and started work on a CG environment, at the moment the buildings have simply been copied far left and right to fill out the scene, but I'm working on some new buildings for there, also they need chimneys, TV Ariels etc... to help dress them. The phone box textures I took in Yarm along with the NatWest bank front, you can see a closer picture of the phone box that I posted here back in 2006, the shop textures I got from some pictures I took in Middleton in Teesdale a few years back. The buildings are fairly low poly and I'm only building what you'll see for the most part.

As for the UFO, I've changed the colour of the outer lights at the request of Steve who I'm modeling these for. The above render is purely a test at the moment with a bit of photoshop enhancement.

Another test vid, a little on the dark side now it's in You Tube, but you get the idea !

UFO Tests - Work in progress

2009-09-04T13:41:00.002+01:00

Here's a couple of quick tests for one of the models I'm making for a proposed TV documentary about UFO sightings, this one being a Black triangle - UFO which have been observed since as far back at the 1940's, there was also a mass sighting of these of St. Petersburg in Russia in 1997.
Still some work to do on this mesh, making it in Max 7 and these test renders were done in Vue 6.

Wolfman Sketch

2009-09-03T20:53:00.001+01:00

Old sketch from a book of numerous doodles and junk that I decided to paint up in Photoshop.

Star Wars - Imperial Battlestation

2009-09-03T16:09:00.004+01:00

I started this around 2 years ago for a UK Star Wars fan film some guys I vaguely new were making, anyway nothing ever came of the project and it got shoved to my spare drive to gather virtual dust. Happened across it the other month while looking for something else. It was designed to be a battlestation but a fraction of the size of a Death Star but still big enough to pack a good punch.
One of the guys on Sci-Fi Meshes forums said it should be called the "Giant Hurt Ball" :)

Here's a picture to show the scale compared to the Death Star from Star Wars

Gingerbreed

2009-09-01T00:55:00.002+01:00

Gingerbreed is an independent SF Comedy feature directed by Jonathan Dorfman and Szymon Weglarski, with live action filmed in New York in 2006. This low budget film is relying heavily on the use of virtual sets to boost it's look, hence the film being shot against green screen, with production of the large amount of Visual FX shots has been progressing steadily over the last few years. I was contacted to build the main Russian ship for this film a while back, and I
documented the making of part of the ship here on my art blog. The whole ship design will be unveiled closer to the films release, as Jonathan and Szymon want to keep the full design of the craft under wraps. I'm really looking forward to seeing the final film and what the ship looks like rendered.

The Gingerbreed Blog can be followed here

Vue 6 Renders

2009-08-30T14:50:00.001+01:00

Here's some older Vue 6 renders from my spare drive that I've dug out to post seeing as though I've not posted anything in a while here.

Tie Fighter Model

2009-06-12T17:13:00.001+01:00

I posted this picture on my Blog here in Jan o8' I got a lot of feedback on this, though I didn't let on it was a model as I think some people thought it was a CG render.

Anyway, the model has been minus it's wing and top hatch for a while, so during a clear out I've fixed it and decided to take some pics to prove it is really a kit and not a CG render.

The Tie-Fighter has always been one of my favourite Star Wars ships, I like this much better than the later Tie-Interceptor from Return of the Jedi.

Just my Artwork

2009-05-01T20:10:00.000+01:00

You can view just my artwork at my other Blog, here it can be viewed without any descriptions or feedback and all on one page.

Check it out HERE

Tucker Sno-Cat for Dylan Teague - Part 2

2009-03-27T14:57:00.003Z

Here are 2 panels from the comic strip being illustrated by Dylan Teague with the Sno-cat I mentioned here a few weeks ago, I think the illustrations look fabulous ! Can't wait to see the finished comic.

Blake's 7 - The London - Work in Progress

2009-03-19T15:38:00.009Z

This is an older model that I plan to finish one day which is a CG replica, thought not 100% accurate to the shooting miniature, of The London from the early episodes of Blake's 7, it was the prison ship that was to take Blake, along with the other prisoners to Cygnus Alpha, during that journey the ship happens upon the abandoned Liberator and Blake, Avon and Jenna manage to jump ship.

The original ship was designed by Ian Scoones and built by Simon Atkinson. It's a very boxy design and is described in the episode as being a converted deep space freighter, we hear in the episode 'Spacefall' that the journey to Cygnus Alpha will take approximately 8 months ship time, yet it seems to be only a matter of days if not less in the actual episodes, from the size of the mess quarters etc... it looks like it would have been a very boring 8 months had it really taken that long.They also talk about things like how the doors might work and lock literally withing ear shot of the guards.

Matt Irvine mentions on the DVD Extra's that the ship was recycled for a Children's TV show called Space Vets, it would seem some changes were made as the box on the front tower seems bigger in the pictures I've seen of this model at exhibitions than it actually does in the episodes of Blake's 7, see bottom left pic above for the model as it is now. I prefer this so it's the version I've gone for in my build. I'll get around to finishing this eventually and have some good reference pics with the help of Niel Bushnell and some of the SF Modelling forums online.

Tucker Sno-Cat for Dylan Teague

2009-03-05T16:04:00.004Z

I made this 3D Model of a Sno-Cat recently for comic book artist Dylan Teague
Dylan is currently illustrating a comic and needed some good reference for a Sno-Cat vehicle, having searched online Dylan asked me if I could make him a 3D model so he could import it into Google Sketch-Up so he could then use it to help him with the specific angles he needed for the strip.
The model is based on a number of Sno-Cat references that both Dylan and me found in an online search, and the model is a bit of a hybrid of those. It didn't need texturing at all so it made the job quicker. I've seen some of the panels that this is getting used in and it looks cool, and I'm sure Dylan will be posting pages from the comic on his site soon.

Here's Dylan's render in Google Sketch-Up

Mine Level Pt 2

2009-02-06T22:36:00.005Z

I posted this back in 2006 here from the PS2 Game Stealth Force - The War on Terror I did whilst at Atomic Planet Entertainment. I found these renders today I did at the time, these were just to test the tunnel sections and details and were not used quite like this in the final game.

Here are some grabs I found online from the same level from the actual game, it really was a bargain basement shoot em up, the A.I. on the enemies was all over the place, you could literally be looking at a bad guy and he wouldn't see you, and then you'd be miles away from one and they'd start shooting at you. Still I had fun building this level even if the game was crap.

Crashed Spaceship - Unfinished

2009-02-06T22:35:00.001Z

I found this picture today that I never got around to finishing of a crashed spaceship, drawn on paper and scanned and coloured in Photoshop.

Blog Birthday

2009-01-01T00:52:00.002Z

Well this is the 382nd Post on my Blog since I started it on Jan 1st 2006. It was a very quiet year for posts last year but I hope to rectify that this year. Thanks to all the people who visit here and leave comments. I also have a blog HERE with general nonsense that you can visit if there's nothing been posted here.
It's 2009 so a Happy New Year to you all.

Retro Spaceship - WIP

2008-12-19T16:46:00.003Z

I started this ship back in August or before in 2006. This is as far as I ever got with it, found it today and did these renders. It's about 75% finished, needs more paneling work and detail and the inside of the cockpit detailing. I'll eventually get around to finishing it, in between other stuff no doubt. I was going for a retro Dan Dare/Flash Gordon type feel with this. I love War Rocket Ajax from the Flash Gordon movie.

The cockpit will probably have seating for 4 and I might do some other windows further along the ship sometime.

Shuttle Bus

2008-12-15T20:59:00.002Z

This model is a rework of the City Transport Vehicle I did for Mark Cheng's short SF Film Deployment Strategy. See the original model I made here

Vue Landscapes

2008-10-15T15:05:00.000+01:00

The same terrain rendered with different lighting and materials in Vue 6

Bad Guys Spaceship - pt2

2008-10-02T17:18:00.002+01:00

These are some anims I did of the ship in Vue 6 for the guys at Monkeyhound for their project. These were just test shots that were shown along with some other stuff to help sell the project. To watch the footage in higher quality click the link here and click Watch in High Quality at the bottom right of the player.

Bad Guys Spaceship

2008-09-26T11:48:00.002+01:00

This ship was kit bashed from some existing CG parts and older models I'd made, as part of a pitch for SF project for the guys at Monkeyhound.

Hyperdrive - Cybermen Container

2008-09-01T11:36:00.005+01:00

I was watching Hyperdrive the other evening, I was skipping channels and noticed it was on, the episode featured the Lemurian Freighter that I made.
I made some posts back in 2006 about this ship Here's post 1 and here's post 2 also I made a post here about the Dark Star bombs that I'd put amongst the cargo as an in joke.
One thing I thought I'd mentioned at the time but didn't was another of the containers was a series of 12 cylinders meant to contain Cybermen from Doctor Who, the containers had the Cyberman logo on that was seen in the classic Tomb of the Cybermen. Of course this was far too small ever to be seen during the actual episode, I just put them there for fun.

Alien Worlds Magazine

2008-08-16T22:04:00.003+01:00

Issue 4 of Alien Worlds Magazine features one of my older UFO pictures. The yellow beam and USA being additions made by the magazine.
Issue 4 is on the shelves now.

Unfinished Room

2008-07-19T16:17:00.002+01:00

I did this room in 2006, a 3D forum was running a competition to make a scene using only the textures they provided, I was a little late downloading the texture pack so I only managed to make a start on my scene, later I did a bit more to it for the fun of it. I just found this render that I'd done at the time as I was building the scene.

30,000 Blog Visitors

2008-07-12T01:43:00.002+01:00

My Blog has reached 30,000 posts. Cheers for all the feedback off everyone, and thanks to those who just come looking. Hopefully I'll have some new updates soon.

Honey Nut Cheerios commercial - Part 4

2008-07-09T16:04:00.002+01:00

I did this at the time of making the CG model just for a bit of fun, I did a render and tried to create the illusion that the ship I made was a miniature being filmed by a motion control camera against a blue screen. The motion control camera came from a still I found on Google.

Honey Nut Cheerios commercial - Part 3

2008-07-01T19:01:00.004+01:00

I went to see my mate's over at Qurios Entertainment yesterday, and Niel there told me that I had to update this blog or he'd post the video he has of me up on You Tube, now I'm not sure what video he means but I wasn't going to take the risk.
So here's an update. When I first got the offer to do the rocket and gantry on the Honey Nut Cheerios advert I started building a section of what would have eventually been a much chunkier gantry, this was just the elevator/stairs and access ganty, to be fastened to something with lots of pipes detail etc...

As I mentioned in my first post about this advert, the guys at Uli Meyer Animation liked the European Ariane 5 style of ship and gantry over the US/Nasa style of craft. I didn't really have a final idea for what the rest of the gantry would look like, but I was looking over some Derek Meddings and Mike Trim stuff from the Gerry Anderson era of miniature FX, also found some nice miniature work by Martin Bower which made great reference.

I salvaged a few part of this for the finished gantry but otherwise this has gone into the spare bits folder on my PC.

Honey Nut Cheerios commercial - Part 2

2008-06-19T09:29:00.001+01:00

Finally it seems someone has loaded this advert onto You Tube so you can see the ship I built in the ad, blink and you'll miss it though, you're probably best watching it through more than once.
Noticed a great continuity with the astronauts helmet towards the end of the ad, see if you can spot it :)

Happy Birthday to me !

2008-05-11T11:27:00.001+01:00

41 Today, and I don't feel a day over 50.

Honey Nut Cheerios commercial

2008-04-25T18:27:00.003+01:00

This is a Spaceship and Launch Pad that I built last November for a Honey Nut Cheerios commercial. I was contacted by Uli Meyer Animation who asked for a "near future" looking rocket for the advert, they liked the European Ariane 5 style of ship and gantry over the US/Nasa style of craft, so using pics found online I built a ship and added more of a shuttle type front as Ariane is only really a payload carrier and not a manned ship. I knew from the beginning that the shot would be locked off, so the gantry was pretty much just built to what the camera seen.
The ship however was built in full. The final shot required a large moon and steam to be added to the shot. I provided 4 seconds worth of animation which included flashing orange warning lights and spinning radar dish, and the team at Uli Meyer Animation provided the moon and steam elements to the final shot.

Here are some frames from the final advert, the spaceship shot opens the 30 commercial, and is only 27 frames in length, seems an awful lot of work for something that pops by so quickly but it does it's job of establishing the location of the piece. The animated Honey Nut Cheerios Bee was animated by the guys at Uli Meyer Studios. From what I gather the advert isn't getting shown here in the UK, but is showing in various European countries. When it appears on You Tube I'll post a link. Now this is only a fanciful TV commercial, so there's no logic why the ship would be sitting upright on the launch pad yet the astronaut is sitting at what appears to be just a control desk, and not in a reclining chair like a real rocket, he also appears to be the only member of the crew. :)

Here's a lighter picture of the final model.

And here are the different render elements that went to make up the final animation.

New Blog

2008-04-10T23:27:00.001+01:00

I've created a new Blog which doesn't show up on my profile. It's called Andrew Glazebrook - Just my Artwork, and that's pretty much all it is, I've uploaded most of my art excluding some work in progress stuff, so it's viewable all on one page, it's divided into sections such as Hyperdrive, Science Fiction and Games and Low Poly etc... No comments can be left as this is just to show my art, and I'll be using my regular blog here for new updates.

New Blog HERE

Simple Renderings

2008-03-31T09:23:00.004+01:00

These we done and posted on the Threedy Forums thread - Post your "simple" renderings.
All done in Vue 5 Infinite

Gun Turret

2008-03-17T10:20:00.003Z

An older model that I haven't posted here. The anim looks a bit dark uploaded here on Blogger.

Landscape 3

2008-02-21T13:51:00.003Z

A landscape picture which is a combination of Vue and Photoshop.
Been busy with other things CG and real world. Should have something new to post soon.

Alien Head Sculpture - Update

2008-02-01T09:50:00.001Z

Here's a real world sculpture I've started recently in Plasticine, it's full size an will eventually be made into a latex mask for a short film I'm in the very, very early stages of planning. The sculpture so far has had hardly any work done but I'll post more pics as this progresses. It's real nice to get away from CG for a bit and get my hands dirty again with some proper modeling.

Added a bit of an update on this, done a little more with the top of the head and around it's eyes.

Tie Fighter

2008-01-15T16:51:00.001Z

For me one of my favourite craft in the Star Wars films is the Tie Fighter.
The first clip I ever seen of Star Wars was the Millenium Falcon escaping from the Death Star and the Tie Fighters attacking. I just loved the design of the ship, those cool black helmets the pilots wore, and that unmistakable sound effect as the fighters flew by. And even though the following films in the original trilogy added new Imperial ships the standard Tie Fighter appeared in all 3 films as one of the main ships in the Imperial navy.
This is a model I made many years ago that I recently dug out and figured I'd do a picture with.

Blogs Birthday

2008-01-01T12:28:00.000Z

Well this is the 362nd Post on my Blog since I started it on Jan 1st 2006. So I haven't done bad to keep my blog going with at least a few posts a month at it's quietest. Thanks to all the people who visit here and leave comments. I also have a blog HERE with general nonsense that you can visit if there's nothing been posted here.
It's 2008 so a Happy New Year to you all.

Toxic Monster 2

2007-12-16T12:47:00.001Z

I did the original pic maybe 10 years ago, but I've scanned it in and done a bit of photoshop work on it. I posted a model I made of a similar Toxic Monster here on March 2006.

Monster

2007-12-10T20:36:00.000Z

I painted this the other morning around 4am when I got up to listen to the Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather fight on BBC Radio 5 Live. Thought while I have my headphones on waiting for the fight build up and then the fight I'd try a bit of Photoshop painting.

Desert Matte/Photo Composite Pic

2007-12-05T03:23:00.001Z

I was really sure I'd posted these ages ago, I found them in my Photobucket folders, I'd certainly posted them on a forum as far back as Dec 05. I wouldn't quite call them Matte Paintings, they're more Photo Montage work done in Photoshop with a 3D Model thrown in. You can see the pics below that went into making the 2 top pictures, most people will recognize Vasquez Rocks, seen in numerous Hollywood films and TV shows, in fact IMDB lists 183 productions that have been shot at this location. List
I was unsure about the wall in the shot so I did 2 versions of the pic, the wall was a quick 3D model that I rendered in Vue 5.

Corridor Concept 3

2007-11-26T14:25:00.000Z

I'd not heard from Emmett Hagen and the guys at Sun Gate Films since May when they were looking for new studio space for their SF Film. I had an e-mail off Emmet earlier saying that production on this project has now shut down.
They are working on a non SF related picture at the moment but don't think it's likely that they'll get back into production on their SF production. Emmet said they have sold a large number of the props etc... that were already made to a prop rental house to recoup some of the money that had been spent.
From the designs I'd done they've kindly returned the rights back to me so I can do what I want with the stuff I did for them.
The corridor design here was one of the early ones I did which was rejected for being a bit to large and not really what they were after, it wasn't a finished mesh and the render wasn't done at the highest quality, but I thought I'd post it anyway. There were a couple of other bits and pieces that I'd done or started that I'll post up here when ever I have the time.
I wish Emmett all the best in his other project.

Area Lights

2007-11-18T11:19:00.000Z

I did this simple image to try out Vue's 'Area Lights' The only lights in the scene are the cylinders which are emitting the light.

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Work in Progress Pt 9

2007-11-16T12:28:00.001Z

It's hard to show this landing leg out of context with the ship, but I'm not allowed to show the rest of the ship yet. Anyway been working on the main landing legs which means the ship does land in the movie. Some work modeling wise to do on the legs yet but this was just a quick test, the very top part of the leg won't be seen, that sits inside the ship where the landing legs retracts from. The legs will have a bit of give when the ship lands and then as the legs raise the ship back up a clamp will lock the gear in place, I'm still working on that mechanism now.
The guys at Gingerbreed have a version of the Spaceship model that they're using to block out shots with at the moment.

Blake's 7 - Teleport Bracelet 3

2007-11-09T09:11:00.000Z

This is a pretty obscure build even by my standards, I made this based on an original design by Ian Scoones for the teleport bracelet for series 1 of Blake's 7 at about the same time I made the other bracelets, just never got around to doing a pic of it until now, for quickness I just replaced the actual series 1 teleport from my older picture with this one. See Labels below.
The concept drawing this was based on was in the book Blake's 7: The Inside Story published in 1997.
The description gives the measurements as Length - 5-½, Width 2-½ and Height as 4 inches. Which makes for a pretty chunky bracelet, no wonder they went for the slimmer ones in the end. He notes it should have a white plasticard finish with foam rubber around the wrist and that 30 of these be made with 6 extra breakable ones.

20,000 Blog Visitors

2007-11-08T11:29:00.000Z

Overnight my Blog hit 20,000 visitors since I put the counter on this site. I'd like to say thanks to all that visit and leave feedback.

Ship Interior

2007-11-07T22:29:00.000Z

Here's something else that probably falls into the category of 'still to do' . I did this test last year based on something I did for some of the Hyperdrive craft that got a little lost in the show. I've always wanted to do either a miniature or CG ship that has windows with an actual modelled and illuminated and detailed interior, quite a few windows so as the ship passes you can see something is in there and it's not just an empty looking ship. I think only Star Trek in the past has really attempted this in some of it's ship fly-by's. The interior model would be fairly low poly but with enough detail in the area's that will be visible though the windows, there would be illuminated screens, flashing lights, CG Crew walking around, anything to give the ship life if it flew by and you could see inside.
Here are some tests I did at the time, a low poly corridor section, and a view from outside a section of ships hull, and also a quick animated test that I did showing an interior door opening as we move past with a low poly, non animated man stood inside.
Eventually I'd like to do a big ship with lots of these sections, but for the moment this will have to wait.

Federation Pursuit Ship - Circa 2003

2007-11-02T21:48:00.001Z

I made this model around 2003 for a bit of fun, made as a variation on the Blake's 7 Federation Pursuit Ships, this was mean't to be a lighter quicker version of those craft. I made the picture below at the time then in around 2004 Niel Bushnell from Qurios Entertainment did this quick anim fly-by with my model.

Check my Labels for other Blake's 7 related models that I've made.

Orange Spaceship in action

2007-10-26T13:32:00.000+01:00

Here's a fairly recent picture using some of my older models, my Orange Spaceship and my Wind Turbine models from previous pics. Made in Max and Vue 5.

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Work in Progress Pt 8

2007-10-20T01:00:00.001+01:00

Here's some work on the area at the back of the ship that has been left empty for a while, it now has the retractable access tube and launch arm for the ships escape vehicle. The arm swings to the side of the ship to launch, when you get to see the whole ship this will become clear why.

Tripods Covers - Circa 2002

2007-10-18T02:35:00.001+01:00

Here are a few rather old pics I did, probably 2002. They were my take on the 4 Book covers to The Tripods novels by John Christopher. I was quite pleased with these at the time, looking back now they ain't so hot. Click the Labels link for other Tripod related pics and a bit of the history about this Tripod model used in these pictures.

No Hyperdrive Series 3

2007-10-12T03:28:00.000+01:00

Kevin Cecil one of the writers of Hyperdive has announced that there won't be a 3rd Series.

Sorry everyone but there won't be a third series of Hyperdrive.

The BBC said that they really liked it and that we should be very proud of it but not enough people watched it to warrant making more.

We'd like to thank everyone on this board for their support of the show. We're very pleased that we got to make two series. We really enjoyed doing it.

Sorry.

Kevin

You can see some of the work I did on Hyperdrive by clicking Here

Something shiny and a break from SF

2007-10-12T03:15:00.001+01:00

As a break from posting Spaceships and Sci-Fi I thought I'd post this I did in Vue 5 last year.

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Work in Progress Pt 7

2007-10-10T10:38:00.001+01:00

Here's a small update showing some of the texture work around a section of the main spine of the ship.

Deployment Strategy DVD at Amazon

2007-10-07T17:54:00.000+01:00

Deployment Strategy is now available to buy on Amazon, you can see some of the work I did for the movie on this Blog or go to Amazon and purchase a copy of the movie Here

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Work in Progress Pt 6

2007-10-04T14:48:00.001+01:00

Here are some renders I did in Vue of the finished landing Thrusters, the ship has four of these, 2 up front and 2 at the back. No shaders applied to these meshes, just the basic textures so far.

Deployment Strategy Website

2007-10-03T00:57:00.000+01:00

As a follow up to my post about the Police Transport vehicle that I made for Mark Cheng's SF short Deployment Strategy I'd like to alert people that Mark has posted a new website and you can purchase a copy of this action packed SF Movie from the site.

http://www.deploymentstrategymovie.com/

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Work in Progress Pt 5

2007-10-01T12:32:00.001+01:00

Here are some updates of the texturing of the side thrusters at the rear of the ship and the general engine area. These thrusters retract in to the main hull of the ship when it's in flight, and only come out for landing.

I've also detailed and textures the are at the top of the ship where the mechanism will go that the escape vessel attaches to, and you people thought that was a swimming pool.

These two pics at the bottom are a bit more updated than those of the thrusters.

Police Transport - Miniature

2007-09-26T18:45:00.000+01:00

I had word of Mark Cheng the other day, the director of Deployment Strategy, he put me in touch with Prop and Model Maker Brian Thone, as Brian is interested in turning my Police Transport craft that I made for the film into an actual real world model. Brian told me he will be designing the inner structure and supports in Corel Draw 12 and having all the parts cut out on a laser. He will then assemble the parts and begin to fill and skin the model until the desired shape is achieved. Once done, he will ad all the final details and mold it in silicone or fiberglass. Depending on the size it is made up to be.

This will be so cool, seeing my CG model turned into one or more real miniatures. Anyway I've send Brian over a whole bunch of orthagraphic renders and other stuff to help him along with his project, Brian is currently working on a half studio scale Battlestar Galactica (3 feet) and this is being built up in the same process.

I'll keep you all updated as soon as I get word off Brian.

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Work in Progress Pt 4

2007-09-25T18:17:00.001+01:00

UPDATED

Here's an update on the ship, or at least the parts of the ship I can show you all. Been texturing the engines and side thrusters and picking out panel details etc...
I've added an updated pic, I've done some external texture work around and on the engines and started picking out parts using a sandier coloured material.

Davis Sisson Link

2007-09-23T12:52:00.000+01:00

I've added a link for David Sisson . Check out his site for his wonderful replica's of Space 1999 and Thunderbirds vehicles amongst others, and also restoration of actual studio miniatures used in some of the Gerry Anderson shows.

Mudbox creation

2007-09-19T13:56:00.001+01:00

I made this a while back when I was seeing what Mudbox could do, this is as far as I got, thought it had a bit of a Giger look to it though.

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Work in Progress Pt 3

2007-09-14T15:00:00.001+01:00

With the majority of modelling work on the main ship finished now I've started texturing the ship with this first pass, markings and other details will be added once all of the ship is mapped. The guys in the US will handle final shaders for the materials etc... as they'll be doing there work in Maya and I'm working in Max.
Szymon tells me they're in the process of signing someone to score Gingerbreed.

Snow Scene

2007-09-03T15:15:00.000+01:00

Looking for something to post I found this pic I did in Vue of summertime in the UK. :)

Hyperdrive - Starbase 6 - pt 2

2007-08-22T13:03:00.000+01:00

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.

Hyperdrive - HMS Purley Way & HMS Gower

2007-08-18T12:54:00.001+01:00

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.

Gingerbreed - Spaceship - Clamp Arm WIP

2007-08-09T16:05:00.001+01:00

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

Laser Turret Guns

2007-08-06T23:48:00.000+01:00

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

Hyperdrive - Starbase 6

2007-08-02T23:57:00.000+01:00

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