Tag Archives: sci-fi image

This spaceship is getting gnarly

My spaceship illustration is coming on in leaps and bounds, getting more interesting all the time. It has twice as many greebles as the last time we saw it, and of course it was almost completely smooth when I rendered the mesh in Blender.

Pioneer Spaceship for Illustration Friday

I was very pleased to see that this week’s word on Illustration Friday is Pioneer. I draw a lot of spaceships with GIMP, and design a lot of 3D spaceships too, with Blender, and pioneering is one of the coolest tasks a spaceship can be put to – to boldly go and all that. For [...]

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 [...]