I was looking through pictures I created in 2013.  I thought I hadn’t done that many, and it was a quiet year, but I’m pretty happy with the ones I did create.  I figured I’d create a gallery for them.  Still didn’t get an email from a publisher wanting to use one on a book cover.  Maybe 2014 is the year.

This is the problem with two days off in a row and no plans to go outside.

I’ve made another picture.   This one inspired by a painting by Michael Whelan.

Back in the early 80’s I got my first “computer”  a Sinclair ZX-81 (81 being the year).  it was black and white, had 1kb RAM, not hard drive, no floppy drive and stored everything, when it felt like it, to cassette.  It was truly a dreadful machine.  The best thing about it was the manual which had an amazing cover by John Harris.    He created a lot of sci-fi art and is known for HUGE scale with HUGE ships.    One of my favourites was called The Building of FTL1, about the construction of the first faster than light ship, you can see a copy HERE.     Today I wanted to recreate this image using my own models.

The models were made in Wings3d, the render was completed in one pass in Carrara 8 and then a little bit of tweaking in PSCS2.

Thanks for looking.

A recent computer graphic image I created.   Wings, Carrara and Photoshop.

I have REALLY got to model something new, otherwise I’ll be stuck rendering my old models for the rest of eternity.  All these models (Klingon D7, Enterprise and Spacedock) were made in Wings.  Rendered twice in Carrara (once without the clouds so I could play with the contrast) and postworked in Photoshop.