Nothing is Ever Free by NefariousDrO
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Returning once again to Humanity's First Interstellar War:
Earlier posts had scenes from a raid on a convoy of cargo transports which can be seen here (among others):
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1467459
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1479470
And, while the new escort class frigates have saved the cargo transports, it isn't an entirely clean victory. Here a missile has scored a near-miss on an escort frigate. The missile's sensors attempted to time the detonation of its warhead to the closest pass; in order to hopefully catch the ship in the blastwave, if not with a direct impact. In this case, the missile has succeeded, as the ship can already be seen bending under the shockwave, and parts are breaking off. Perhaps the command-module with its engines will survive, but the combat module appears doomed.
Ships all assembled by me in Bryce, with mostly cusomized or altered textures. Background in Photoshop with the "Glitterato" plugin. Explosion effect is done in Photoshop CS.
Anybody interested in how this is done, there's an excellent tutorial on Youtube posted by a web-comic artist here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1dAedHmsuk
Comments, criticisms and suggestions are always welcome, and thanks for taking a look. Have a great weekend!

Comments (22)
Superb modeling, texturinging and rendering work, your space ships are amazing, and your post work explosion is top quality too!!!
back to your outstanding models and space scenarios. exceptional work
That looks a well cool ship. good effects too, well done !
real good blow up effect here
Oh! Awesome effects and story continuation... but oh dears... o.o'
Magnific space image..superb modeling and nice effect too! Very well done :)
Nice work...
Awesome!! Superb image! Love the explosion effect!
Great Explosion!!!
Excellent work,klasse image!!!!!!
Sweet render, great explosion at work here. Many thanks for the heads up on the photoshop tut!
Cool render and story~ Lots of detail!
Very well done.
Excellent effects!!
Great Action here Well done
Great action and a sense of scale here. This is a very well done rendering! Keep up the good work!
Gorgeous bryce artwork!
Amazing image! I really love it!
nice work!!!!
Great effect ! Thanx for sharing, the tutorial is quite excellent - You could add some pieces of the ship blowing out or just some little dark spots on a top layer using Dissolve mode - Keep on !
Very kool postwork FX and your detailed Cargo craft looks great ! Fine sci-fi scene, very well done ! ~Cheers~ :o)
Truth..and the cost always steep... Wonderful and imaginative work :)