Tag Archives: science fiction

A Digital Painting of A Wilderness of Stars, oh and of course, a spaceship.

Every week I go to The Illustration Art challeng website to get inspiration for a digital painting. This week the word on Illustration Friday is “Wilderness”, and me being the science fiction, space ship obsessed nerd that I am, the first idea that jumped to mind was “A Wilderness of Stars”; but where had I [...]

I just saw Avatar in 3D and loved the design, the alien ecosystem and all the concepts.

OK, so I just watched Avatar and I’m not going to even fight the influence this is going to be having on my sketches for the foreseeable future.
It’s a great movie and I absolutely loved it. It has attracted some criticism for a certain simplicity in the story, but I think that’s missing the point. [...]

The Hatch Dragon Illustration, Saved for Web thanks to the GIMP Plugin Registry

 
This week we internet artists are being challenged with the word “hatch”. Now of course this is going to produce one or two images of dragons hatching from eggs, produced by the more fantasy, science fiction and role-playing game minded – like me – but it could also be associated with a hatch in the [...]

That 3D spaceship mesh now has a nice planet to orbit

  There have already been a lot of changes made to this blend, which now has quite a few lamps, meshes and even a bit of text scattered about, but there is still a long way to go. The latest big change is that the scene has now got a planet in it.
And a planet [...]

I hate Adobe so much right now and it is Illustration Friday time again

 
This week’s word on Illustration Friday is “shaky” and I had drawn a nice space elevator and written a great post about space elevators in response. I know space elevators sounds crazy as a response to the word “shaky” but my post explained it and it made sense – I swear.
I used Windows Live [...]

Drifting is the latest art challenge from Illustration Friday, so here’s my art.

This is the raw trueSpace render which I later worked on to produce the Grey Angel, one of the many spaceship designs I have produced for science fiction RPGs. The final version of this spaceship has a lot more detail, but this raw render from the 3D mesh has a haunting quality which really [...]

Sci Fi author responsible for Battlestar Galactica offers free online writing course, and some free eBooks (but are they any good).

Jeffrey A. Carver always posts his latest science fiction novels on his website to download for free, although they are real books and will be published in the print medium too, and that’s brought him to my attention. I’m always searching for free sci-fi eBooks you see.
It turns out that this author also offers [...]

Sci-Fi RPG resources site gets a make over

Today sees the unveiling of the new look for this Sci-Fi RPG resources site. This site contains spaceships, maps, planet profiles, NPCs, deckplans, monsters and equipment for science fiction role-playing games, and includes the information needed to use them with Traveller. The previous pink color scheme with pretty stars didn’t really express that and has [...]

JJ`s Star Trek, great movie, no good for RPG inspiration though, and the Enterprise looked short and fat

 
I loved the new Star Trek movie as an entertainment and as a spectacle, but not as RPG inspiration. As a long time sci-fi nerd and science fiction role-playing games aficionado I was a little hesitant about seeing a JJ Abram’s Star Trek, he often does dark and brooding rather than the whiz-bang and [...]

Blender is great for creating spaceships, and easier to use than expected

I’ve been playing with Blender the free 3D software for a couple of days now, off and on – mostly off, I had to clear out a shed and there has been a lot of work at my day job – but I think I’m already getting to grips with it. My experience playing with [...]