I can’t decide if this is genius, daft, or possibly both…
A design from Canada for the X-Prize, which is based on sticking a modern rocket engine into a V2 hull, stretched enough to fit a pilot in the top, for sub orbital flights.
Lightwave 3d
The current quickie project, the Canadian Arrow!
This was a seriously oddball design, basically take a World War 2 V2 rocket, and stick a modern engine in it.
You what?!?!
Take a look at What Graham Gazzard did with the Mars mesh I released over on Foundation 3D!
Great for wallpaper! And that’s the Prometheus in the foreground.
A set of renderings, all exported from Daz Studio for lighting and rendering in Lightwave 3d
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- …like my granny’s teeth.
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- This gets closer to the daleks.
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- Undead fiend, exported from Daz and rendered in Lightwave
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- Daleks in old London
2000 AD the comic tended to produce a huge number of memorable characters, not so much in the hay of memorable vehicles.
Here’s a noteworthy exception, the BltizSpear, as flown by Nemesis the Warlock.
I’m not going for high accuracy here, there’s quite a bit of variation in the artwork, and from what I can tell the rear was never shown.
Another one of my short documentaries, this one is on Ernst Stuhlinger’s design for a nuclear powered manned vehicle for Mars.
And it tests my YouTube embedding!
The Black Arrow was a British rocket, cancelled despite a 100% successful launch.
This is a short CGI documentary I made about it.
QAs usual, everything was mmodelled and rendered in Lightwave 3d
I’ve been working on a mesh of Pioneer 11, the first probe to go past Jupiter and Saturn.
Here are a few renders, as usual done in Lightwave 3d
This time using a background environment I built in Vue.
This includes HDR illumination, and is pretty high resolution all the way round, apart from the areas near the top and bottom or the sky/ground which the camera is unlikely to point at…
The model was by David Webster, I re-textured it to suit my preferred style, and here are the results!
