Hi, my name is Karl Stöcker, and I was born a long time ago, way too long, in Berchtesgaden, Germany, grew up in Düsseldorf, and since 1966 have been in the US (mostly). I've traveled a lot, 46 countries by this time, and I am planning on many more. I've spent a couple of decades in the US military, active and reserve, and since retirement from civil service, worked off and on as a high school science teacher in a suburb of Sacramento. Ever since my original ID's Doom days, back when it was just released on a floppy disk as a free level advertisement, I was interested in learning about 3D CGI, but I didn't get started until I retired from civil service in 1996. Since then I have been working with Truespace, Bryce, then Lightwave 3D, and Vue. Also dabbled a little in Poser 4, but just bought Poser 6 and am starting sink my teeth into that a bit. My website, http://www.cosmic-pearl.com/, has more details on me, should anyone not be bored to tears by now, also there are LW Viking ship and Star Wars X-Wing tutorials, as well as downloadable meshes (which can be imported into Vue, BTW) - my free stuff to the CG community.
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Comments (8)
pixeltek
Remade it, because I found the original a little boring. The new title applies to the original story, Sigfried going to Iceland for Brunhild, as well as Vikings on a raid, and of course the obvious - the weather. Lastly, I changed the sails, to break up the monotony of the same design. I drew Hal Foster's creation, Prince Valiant's coat of arms for the ship on the right, since he too was created as a Viking offspring.
boobunny
Very cool. Love the water waves. Excellent work!
jif3d
Kool re-post ! I argee the sail texture is much better, just a suggestion...zoom in, so the ships fill the whole scene, I think it would make the scene more dramatic, I know you must have spent a fair bit of time on your storm and ocean surface, but the ships are the focus of interest here, well done ~Cheers~
Gor111
a fantastic created deeap sea scenery with those viking warships! Brilliant how you have realized your idea!!!
Traligill
interesting POV, creates a sense that the ships are possibly about to be overwhelmed by waves!
pixeltek
Just to point this out, that is a marine layer that is being pushed ahead by the storm. Low fog, about to be shredded by rising winds.
drifterlee
I like the water!!!!!! I have Vue but never had time to learn it.
awadissk
Excellent work!!!!!!!!