The "Amazing Aerospace" collection. An alternative history and the future of human flight.
Pen Pencil Bristles - artistic endeavours without computers.
Orlando Jax - a rollicking space adventure with pirates, ransom and despicable deeds.
Works and progress
The Signal Tree
14 January 2025
I was thinking about my V Ship and how one of its roles is to explore - but explore what? That set me thinking about new worlds that could support life, and life in the form of trees. But alien trees wouldn’t necessarily be green - they might have ways of capturing energy that doesn’t involve photosynthesis. So I conjured up the idea of the Signal Tree. I’ve still got a bit of thinking to do around this one, but this is how it is shaping up.
#PosterArt #SciFi #Blender #alien
Corsicaä-19
8 January 2025
The COVID pandemic was a shocking event and a very unpleasant time. I just thank Gaia that the scientists were able to move so quickly with the production of a vaccine to bring the situation under control. There were times when I got distinctly unpleasant end of civilisation vibes.
It reminded me of the brilliant Studio Ghibli - Hayao Miyazaki film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. In that film, the planet is consumed by a toxic jungle which was pretty much how I felt about COVID-19. So I borrowed Nausicaä and an image from the streets of Wuhan to create my Corsicaä-19 poster.
#PosterArt #SciFi
V Ships
2 January 2025
I wasn't wrong about the fractal antenna ring - it did prove very tricky to get right. I haven't started on Verdajuvel. I did a test run building a V Ship - the Green Man. These are the small reconnaisance ships carried by Verdajuvel. It was a great exercise because I made a lot of mistakes but worked out a correct process.
And I was pleased with the way the little V Ship turned out - it's quite cute. In the first test render below I've got it floating in an upper atmosphere - an HDRI file I've used before. I think I'll give it a poster of its own. I'm developing a tree model.
#blender #PosterArt #aerospace #SciFi
Five from six
13 December 2024
This is the current state of my 'poster assessment gallery'. I did rework part of the Mondiale Rendezvous poster. I wasn't happy with the top triangular shape the way it was. So I reformed it - gave it an apparent thickness to look more like part of the fuselage of the aircraft used to observe Mondiale refueling - seen through a window. I think it works better now.
I am pleased with the way the Archangel II posters turned out. Having those great background images makes all the difference. The use of lighting to create shading effects on the Archangel II models has worked very well to.
Finally I get to Verdajuvel. The complexity here lies in the fractal antenna ring around the ship and that garden in the middle. More challenges!
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