My humble contribution to the 2011 Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar, available now at Amazon.com, for any that are interested in a year's worth of some great starship porn to hang on the wall. (click on thumb to enlarge) deg It's only a model. - Patsy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail Ps. Thx, dug!
deg. You might want to convert the image to a thumbnail or a link, It's HUGE! Excellent, as always, good sir... Q2UnME
Looks nice. But why is the background image so blurry? And some star flares of the background are also simply just cut off by the ships.
As always, I am left speechless. All I can say is ... That and ... [little school girl] I have new wallpaper! I have new wallpaper! [/little school girl] Thanks for the awesomeness, good sir!
You'll notice the ships have some blur to them too. Deg I am guessing added it to give it more of that "Calendar art" feel.
Thanks, guys, glad you likey! Makes it all the more worth-while to do, for my Trekker-buds, eh! JarodRussell, it's just my art as my art, my friend. It comes out as it comes out, within the dead-line if so that I have to do it in. Is it real-world perfect? Nope. But I like to think it came out pretty and sexy. Is to me anywho, eh. deg
Didn't mean to offend, since I have barely any idea what work is involved. How long did you need to create this image?
Oh, no offense taken, my friend. Just tryin' to answer your Q as best I can. This shot took about 2 weeks on-and-off between me pitching various compositions to Doug. IIRC, this was my third or fourth revision submit. Once I got the composition OK from Doug, it took about three days or so to work it all out into a pretty picture. One main hurdle one has to consider is, for print resolution, you have to render SUPER BIG, like close to 7000 px across for the pixel resolution to hold up. The background I created, while made up of hi-rez components, perhaps could have benefitted from a bit more pixels for clarity, but that's what I had to use in the time I had to do it in. I like the way it turned out nevertheless, as not everything in every shot ever taken is in perfect focus. But, if asked back, I have some new ideas for creating space-drops that I will try out. Hope that helps ya see into me head, thus process a bit more. Thanks much for your interest in my work, my friend. deg
Thanks, dude! Final is 7000 px X 3500 px. Oh, that's right, sojourner. Thanks for pointing that out. As I recall, the D4 took me a few weeks to build, and TOS. 5 E, oh my, me dear lovely E, she was months (around 6 maybe) to get her passed and approved by my Virgo perfectionist nature. E's a different build-case altogether, like none other before or since. No mesh o' mine has ever gotten her level of reference studying and attention to detail. Slave 1 came close, by E reigns supreme in the deg mesh stable. So yeah, that 2 weeks was just coming up with the shot's composition and then executing the lighting and post efx and whatever else was needed. The models were all built by me previously. All my artwork is always and ever composed with my own models. deg
Choked out my 32-bit LightWave on me Mac. Had to boot BootCamp and go into Windows 64-bit LightWave to handle it. IIRC, it took about 5 hours to cook up. Overnight, ready in the morning. deg
OK, so now we know to bake at 450 degrees for 300 minutes. Do you use a toothpick to check whether it's ready? Seriously though, excellent work. (And BTW, I was tickled to see your interview on this month's Doug Drexler video blog! )
Scott! Long time it seems, buddy! Good to see ya! And thanks for the kinds words, bud, glad you enjoy the shot, and the bit o' me on the Files. deg