Comments on: Spaceship renderings (and I don't mean melted fat!)

Spaceship renderings (and I don't mean melted fat!)

OmieWise — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:11:32 -0800

"Since I was a little boy I have always dreamed that one day man would journey to the moon and beyond. I now try to create images that show the possibilities of space flight with the technologies that are currently available today or what could be in the near future. In doing so, I try to depict what a manned space mission might actually look like to one of the 9 planets in our solar system." [Not Flash, but fun for Friday anyway.]

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:14:00 -0800

I meant to include a link to a series of screenshots taken during the model creation process. It's pretty cool.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:16:55 -0800

In doing so, I try to depict what a manned space mission might actually look like to one of the ~~9 planets~~ ~~10 planets~~ 8 planets in our solar system.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:06:30 -0800

Pluto will always be a planet. Damn it.

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:13:49 -0800

In that case, brundlefly, make it at least 12.

By: klik99

klik99 — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:14:11 -0800

plutor took the words right out of my mouth - and dammit I want them back! but this is very good bryce work, though I am surprised that he can put so much work into the animations but still have a crappy website.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:25:12 -0800

gorgor_balabala: Works for me.

By: ToasT

ToasT — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:01:49 -0800

Bryce is a good entry-level modeler, but it's no Maya or Lightwave. Bravo to anyone with this much patience and imagination.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:46:30 -0800

Yeah. I was gonna say. This kind of work in Bryce? Pretty impressive.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:07:35 -0800

The space-ships looked cool enough, but the web design and presence of spelling errors made me loose a lot of respect for the guy.

By: bashos_frog

bashos_frog — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:52:10 -0800

I just loosed a lot of respect for Citizen Premier

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:40:18 -0800

Those schematic screenshots give me a headache. Bryce makes some real purty pictures, but it's a hell of a tool to try doing any real modelling in. I seriously doubt he used only Bryce for his models. I hope for his sake that he didn't, and hope that he imported the complex stuff from somewhere else. Holy crap.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:57:54 -0800

As I recall, Bryce only does boolean modeling, right?

By: trigonometry

trigonometry — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:27:38 -0800

What a neat site--the imagery gets the old imagination churning afresh. The designs are well-thought-out and the modelling is excellent. It's got me wanting to start sketching NEF (Near Earth Future) in pen and ink again. That said, the page design is utter crap. The layout and weird animation/fade effects have got to go. Content: A+. Presentation: C-.

By: nightchrome

nightchrome — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:32:16 -0800

"I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed that I would see the last." - Dr. Jerry Pournelle