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evil_genius_180
May 5th, 2006, 01:22 PM
Hello to all. I've been a member for a few weeks, posting in the forums, and I felt it was time to display some artwork. This is my first ever BSG work, I've mostly done Star Trek with a little Star Wars here and there. I wasn't sure exactly what the prerequisites were for BSG work as I haven't seen the show for a while, so I figured I couldn't go wrong with some Vipers, some planets and a few effects.

Since I have an old computer and the Viper mesh by H. Gibbons renders up quite quickly (and is a beautiful mesh) I chose it for my first piece. Everything is rendered in tS with a little work on the backdrop done in Universe. I converted this mesh myself from the original LW format as opposed to using the one already converted to tS because I wanted the textures.

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5642/darkside5ld.th.jpg (http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=darkside5ld.jpg)

I plan to do some more art after I convert a few more models for my use. (and decide exactly which Galactica I'm going to use :D )

Update: I changed the image credits to spell H. Gibbens' name correctly. :salute:
ernie90125
May 5th, 2006, 02:20 PM
Congrats on displaying your first piece of art.....

Its great to see another new member contributing to CF beyond discussion......
gmd3d
May 5th, 2006, 02:44 PM
nice work .. Evil great to see that your posting your art here too..
lrf
May 5th, 2006, 02:57 PM
Great concept "Evil"! Which program did you use? I tried downloading some of the BSG meshes, but so far I'm unable to access this area. I e-mailed one of the mods, but no help yet. I'd love to see more of your art!
evil_genius_180
May 5th, 2006, 06:47 PM
Even though it says you need 5 posts, for some reason, I wasn't able to download until I had 11. I use good old trueSpace 3.2 (the best free program in my book)
evil_genius_180
May 6th, 2006, 10:46 PM
Another little pic. It's amazing that I've been using this program for several years and still can't figure out how the darn motion blur works. Oh well, they're not using their boosters I guess :D

One thing I noticed about classic Galactica was that the Vipers were always outnumbered by at least a 2-1 ratio, so I put a few friends pursuing the Vipers in this one.

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/6844/pursuit0tj.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pursuit0tj.jpg)
nguya
May 28th, 2006, 12:33 AM
Nice work. Really like it. The picture is wll framed (using the star, planets). Plays nice on the eye.
cylon private
June 7th, 2006, 07:58 PM
ok image, background is better than the ships though