Tag Archives: trueSpace

New role-playing game spaceship design with use with Mongoose Traveller, and Tarazet the science fiction background

As you might have noticed, I’m experimenting with very long and key word rich post titles to see if that helps with SEO, and the title on this post is a particularly ripe example of this. But never mind that, let’s get on with the meat of this science fiction role-playing game post – oops, [...]

Working on a new spaceship for use in role-playing games, e.g. Traveller

  One advantage of having such an underpowered laptop for an illustrator is that it gives you an opportunity to doodle ideas as you are waiting for Photoshop or trueSpace to finally open. This illustration is a case in point from today. I was just doodling on the pad I use as a mouse mat [...]

I’ve started modeling a new 3D spaceship, here is how it looks after a couple of hours work

This is the spaceship after I loaded it into Photoshop and started adding shape layers to the basic trueSpace render, in order to get a final spaceship illustration. The spaceship now has windows, nacelles (engine covers), hull plates and a reactor plume shooting out of the back. It is now a spaceship that looks alive [...]

A spaceship called The Artful Dodger

I’ve reached page 218 of the science fiction novel that I am reading and, at the same time, illustrating; and at last a spaceship has caught my eye. The spaceships from the book – The Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton – are of a very futuristic kind indeed. The spaceship on page 218 is [...]