Sudden insanity on the part of the crew? A mutiny, perhaps? Bad sensor data is always a possibility, but was discounted immediately by the ship’s builders shortly before they filed for bankruptcy and executive protection.

But the truth is, we may never know the cause of the catastrophe, why so many normal, rational people, gave up the will to live and ended it all in the fiery death that ended the last flight of the Star Ship ‘In Search Of Tia`ja’

~Encyclopedia Galactic Trivia, 434th Edition”

Notes:

The derelict ship was created in Vue using a handful of primitives poked into place then grouped into a metablob, an idea Chipp Walters has mentioned a lot recently about his “Speed Painting” thing.

It worked out pretty nicely, although I still need to poke some more to get it to use separate textures on selected primitives.

The other advantage to doing it this way rather than an object seems to be it only took 12 minutes to render the original 6400×4000 master image. The whole thing came in just shy of 7000 polys!

Derelict Hell

There’s got to be a better way of evolving – or at least one that doesn’t involve so much owie!

Hmmm, I wonder if this qualifies for entry to the Dark series …

The lights on both buildings were created using the same techniques first tested with “Never pick up hitch-hikers“, tweaking volumetric and glow as needed.

Image rendered in Vue.

miika's new avatar - June 2010

Rendered in Poser, postwork in Photoshop.

Writing the words to the story proved to be much harder than rendering this portion of the story, so I’ve posted the image for now while I refine the writing, which I’ll add once it’s done.

Warning: This image is absolutely NOT safe for work.  You’ve been warned.

Embracing Darkness

Rendered in Poser, postwork done in Photoshop.

I’m not so sure she appreciates her “helper” though.

Inspired by 5 cats all deciding to hide under my desk during the recent thunderstorms.

They were about as helpful too

You are NOT helping!

Rendered in Poser then heavily postworked in Photoshop.

Vampires are one of those concepts that sit on the edge between darkness and light so perfectly – they’re dangerous, killers, but their eroticism and attraction is undeniable.  As such, they’re fun to depict in artwork in the same way that I take Giger-esque aliens and put them in ambiguous scenes.

Like the “Promise” series images, I’ll write a short accompanying story fragment to go with the pic and put it up on my main web site.

Take a look and decide for yourself – is the victim willing, resigned, or … ?

This might sting a little ...

Created in Poser, postwork using Photoshop and Picasa.