Insignia Class U.S.S. Challenger

Some highish res images of the old Insignia Class for a Star Trek sim.

Something blue

It seemed I'd done a fair few orange things lately, so I thought I'd try something blue.

Done for www.stphoenix.com.

Ongoing projects.

I continue to do animation work for Sonnet films for the time being, and unfortunately cannot show anything as of yet until their official release of The Incursion. Suffice to say it's something original and I will post the final effects and development art here when I can.

In the meantime, I also continue to do stills work for Star Trek: Phoenix, any images of which I'll post here (as above). The producer wanted to show the relative scales of the two ships in the production.

Apologies to all those that have contacted me where I am yet to reply; I am working to get round to you soon.

Planetary Explosion

I was asked to blow up a peaceful planet for Sonnet Realm Films a couple of weeks ago, and it seemed I had very little choice but to comply...



Done mainly in 3DS Max, where the use of glow effects really helped in the final render.

Departure

Turning out very differently from what I sketched out here, this is a shot for a Star Trek Sim of a ship departing an Asteroid base.

The story required a holodeck-type effect on the doors, so I added this here but I thought it might be a little hard to explain outside the storyline:

Avalon Station profile images

A very simple model, but it's design seems to be quite popular - So here's some raw shots of the station to see what actual detail is there:



Here is a close up shot, well, as close as I'm willing to go on a model that was only meant to be some background dressing in a scene!

Orange Planet & Asteroid belt

Before I ruin it by putting a spaceship in the foreground, thought I'd post this up.

The barren planet texture was from a picture that Chrissie took of the rust on the surface of an iron garden roller.

Update: I fianlly got round to ruining it by adding that space station here: