Tag Archives: 3D art

Can Ubuntu Linux save my zombie laptop?

OK, I’ve decided to try my boot USB stick with a bigger Linux, but which one? This online test zegenie Studios Linux Distribution Chooser recommended that I use Ubuntu, and it does seem like a good choice, but the download is 600 MB big. I only have an internet contract that allows me 1GB web [...]

New 3d Dragonbat illustration for my comment and analysis blog

  Dragonbat is one of my many other blogs, just take a look at the blogroll in the sidebar to see how many there are, and from time to time it needs illustrations. It is a comment and analysis blog, mostly I just read the Guardian and give my 2 cents worth, so it needs [...]

Germs and a Telegraphics free plugin for Photoshop

  This week’s word on Illustration Friday is Germs. It’s great to have a nice rancid word like this so I can just let rip with my illustration. Again after sketching my germ and adding colour with Photoshop I’m doing my 2D/3D illustration thing, but I’m having a problem with an unwanted white outline appearing [...]

My 3D spaceship model is looking more powerful

I’m happy with my stars as the dim far away stars, but I need some bright foreground ones as well. This pdf Blender tutorial for getting good 3D stars was a very interesting read. It goes into great depth about which buttons to press and which sliders to slide and why, but it’s based on [...]

Learning how to do glass and stars in Blender

  I decided to use a royalty-free picture of space as a background to the spaceship I’m designing, but as you can see (left) it turned out to be a little bit, in your face. So I decided I could put a sheet of dark glass in front of it to take the edge off [...]

Dark Cat 3D Mesh

I think this 3D model that I am currently working on in Blender (the free 3D software solution) is really going to be something special. In my last post I mentioned how I’m keen on putting some of my 3D images on the front of t-shirts and I think Dark Cat here will be perfect [...]

tango of the two cute droids

  This weeks word on Illustration Friday is “tango” and although that’s not usually the sort of word that I produce images for – the vast majority of the pictures on this site are of spaceships, droids and monsters for use in RPGs – I thought I’d give it a go. I’ve been working on [...]

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 speaks [...]

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 [...]

3D Models marketplace for trueSpace

I’m really into trueSpace right now, why? Because it’s free and it works on my computer; blender and a couple of other programs are free too, but trueSpace was the only one my poor graphics card could handle. Apparently it’s graphics cards that are throwing a spanner in the works when a 3D engine refuses [...]