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This was taken with Android on my Nexus S. This is in the International Terminal of the Toronto Airport
I spent today working on texture and realism, going back over the airbrushed work with a flat wide brush and white paint, nothing complex but it immediately subdues the cartoony airbrush shading into something more textured, worn out.
This is a fun challenge in restraint compared with Star Wars models where everything is filthy to excess...I've been looking carefully at the Space Shuttle panelling for reference.
Brain lock channeled into boondock bondage,
Broken brain syndrome in an e-tard fashion.
Colorless morphine dripping from the sky,
Salmonella dreams from a naughty little jungle.
This is how we do it.
This is how we do it.
I dropped kraans and the moon said something to me,
He said man I've got all the kraans you could ever need.
Sipping from a candle in another vivid dream,
Tripping over Percocets and waiting for the screams.
This is how we do it nukkah,
This is how it is.
Interstellar space travel,
Slipping from the seems.
Distant black wasteland ,
Otherworldly fiends.
Interviewing vampires,
A mile in the green.
Catch me if you can,
A ghost-faced scream.
This is how we do it.
This is wait, what?
Long past overdrive,
Nothings what it seems.
Quantamly orderly,
Picking at the weeds.
Lightly salted pigments,
In a plastic jar.
Four exalted figments,
In a dream too far.
This is what I am.
This is what you are.
Fuck that white noise I'm slipping away,
Intercept my signal on the other side.
I ain't got nothing against any gays,
I'm gonna leave this world behind.
This is how we do it,
This is how it's done.
This is how we do it,
It's all in good fun.
I'm coming to you.
I'm coming for you.
I'm coming in you.
Wait, what?
© Nick Ruffolo
The past few days I've spent moulding and casting the thruster module, this morning I cast up another couple which turned out beautifully. The pour spout is crudely cut into the mould, but it appears on a flat panel and all I do with each cast is mill that surface nice and clean before applying filler to any stray bubbles.
This evening I turned my attention back to the ranger, masking off the hull so that I could strategically Bondo the part which I've taken to calling 'The Headscarf'
That took a lot of patient sculpting, but so far so good.
Then later on I milled the retro thrusters, airlock and the four clasp locks that surround it.
Tomorrow I'll machine the thrusters and fit them in place, probably out of acrylic or acetal
inkpad, old skb pro, when I went back to edit, new skb pro, update announced at the Autodesk One Gallery The Digital Canvas, 05.05.11
In the evening I moved onto the Lander, I spent a couple of hours planning out ideas of how this nightmare of geometry would go together but ultimately I decided to mill it in acetal.
I ended up with some funky angles on the milling bed and a great deal of time spent with an angle square and spirit level.
In the end though, despite it being symmetrical and looking vaguely correct, I'm going to scrap it and make it from 5mm sheet acrylic...I've had my mill for a fortnight so I am nowhere near skilled enough to fathom the geometry of this vehicle on the mill.
Vast stretches of interstellar gas and dust are seen here just below the Orion Nebula. Newly-formed stars illuminate some of the dust, creating the blue-coloured reflection nebulae.
RGB overlays from DSS2 Red and DSS2 Blue.
Orbiting high above Cybertron, Sky Lynx leads a group of Autobots, Minicons and Joes to face a new frontier.
Just a fun shot here. My son actually thought of the concept.
From Wikipedia:
The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust in the star cluster IC 1396 and ionized gas region located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth[1]. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible wavelengths, where it is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star that is just to the west of IC 1396A. (In the Figure above, the massive star is just to the left of the edge of the image.) The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays.
The Elephant Trunk nebula is now thought to be site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity.
The combined action of the light from the massive star ionizing and compressing the rim of the cloud, and the wind from the young stars shifting gas from the center outward lead to very high compression in the Elephant Trunk nebula. This pressure has triggered the current generation of protostars.
Details: Shot with CGEM-800, F/3.3 focal reducer, Astronomiks RGB and Orion Ha filter, ATIK320e. Ha:11x600s as Lum, R:11x60s, G:11x60s, B:11x60s. I would still like to remove some of the background illumination and fix up my stars in the corners but for a first shot at a very dim target, I was ok with this result for now.
Computron City is the first level in Interstellar Force. I thought that the city with its multi-layered parallax scrolling background would be a good opener level for the game. This is shown with the iPhone 4 graphic. I created all of the city graphics using an old version of Paint Shop Pro for windows XP.
When I heard about the discovery of a possibly habitable planet, I immediately thought of Bill Peet's classic tale Wump World.
If we could overcome the technical and physical limitations of interstellar travel, should we do it?
This artist's rendition of Gliese 581-c is from the European Southern Observatory. Any use must be accompanied by attribution to ESO.
Aldeberan 2 - the desert planet. I like this level because it mixes up the colors with bright yellow and orange hues. I'm also quote pleased with the final version of the ground and mountains. The yellow/orange "dots" are the remnants of an enemy ship explosion - - this photo was taken off of the iPhone simulator on my Macbook Pro. Like most of the levels, the graphics here were created using an old version of Paint Shop Pro for Windows XP
Corb Lund in the spotlight at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
©Eric Kozakiewicz/ Interstellar Rodeo
Ok, I had to make an asteroid field in Interstellar Force. I created the asteroids using pixel art editor Pixen.
Corb Lund in the spotlight at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
©Eric Kozakiewicz/ Interstellar Rodeo
I've been somewhat neglectful of cracking on with the project recently, hanging over my head (literally, it lives on the workshop wall) incomplete, with a feeling of resentment towards how difficult the build has been.
However, I took advantage of being home on sick leave to get back on with the Landers- it's been a while since I've painted anything so it was a welcome change of scenery to building. Difficult to avoid a somewhat cartoony look at this stage, I may have to knock the contrast down with some white chalk powder judiciously applied in some areas....
Preliminary Report on Unidentified Object 92002, "The Chiron Derelict"
I created a video to demonstrate the (hand-cranked) flickering backlight of the Neuronal Node. (This is the Director's Cut - if you saw the video when I posted earlier pictures, the music is better now and the whole thing has been reworked. The video is over on YouTube, because Flickr's video player doesn't seem to work very well.) Enjoy!
Discovered by a robot probe exploring the minor planet 2060 Chiron, object 92002 appears to be nothing less than an interstellar spacecraft of nonhuman origin.
The relevant probe imagery was suppressed, and an unprecedented manned exploration mission was dispatched to investigate the artifact.
Adrift, apparently long abandoned, the vessel is nonetheless far from lifeless. Indeed, the ship itself is alive. It shows every indication of being a complex colony organism composed of many disparate subunits, which the exploration team calls "nodes".
This appears to be no natural space-going lifeform, but a deliberately assembled combination of biomechanoid modules. Most of the nodes are so completely self-contained, so tightly specialized, and so efficient at their functions, that they must have been genetically engineered with near godlike skill.
This "neuronal" node appears to be a small-scale neural network, equivalent in decision-making power to perhaps a few dozen biological neurons. These nodes - many thousands of them, no two exactly alike - are part of a larger apparent network that covers the derelict's surface in complex stripes and webs, integrating other types of nodes at times.
Many of the derelict's neuronal nodes seem to be still active, even when excised and placed in shielded storage. There are dark patches, but it would be prudent to assume that the derelict as a whole may be, even now, intelligent and aware.
The unexpected discovery of such an advanced alien artifact so close to Earth is alarming, and the apparent abandonment of the vessel by its presumed crew is hardly reassuring. If they - whoever they are - are not still on board...where did they go?
This is an illuminated alien/organic greeble study for Greeble De Mayo 2015, Week Three.