* * Arrival of the Metaship * * by PhilW
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
I know, I know, I'm all over the place! My recent images have included a landscape, a pin-up, a portrait, an animal picture, and now sci-fi ships - what's going on! Just my endless experimenting I guess.
These are the first images that I have posted using Vue 7 Pioneer - the free beta - I seem to be getting more crashes with this than previous versions of Vue! Still it is free...
I am indebted to Chipp Walters - a real Vue hero - for his technique in modelling this kind of ship right in Vue. The ship was modelled from scratch entirely in Vue, textured and the scene set up in about 30-40 minutes start to finish, plus a similar time to render each image. You can find his tutorials to do this here:
http://blog.chipp.com/2009_01_01_archive.html
The light beams were added in postwork. I hope you like - and forgive my eclectic approach recently. Thanks for looking and for all the recent comments, I really appreciate the feedback! Phil

Comments (31)
Very nice SF scene !! 5+
This is a very cool Idea and SF scene - the modell and your postwork absolut ok
Wonderful sci-fi work , love the colours!
practice makes perfect..i believe you will be as good as Chipwalters one day.. does the Vue Pioneer enable u to save the file mate?
Fantastic scifi!!
Cool render and modeling, nice work for sure!
so beatiful scenes
Impressive idea and realization Phil......!!!!!
...looks real great...
Really excellent work!! :)
Awesome !!! Nothing wrong with being all over the place. In art it's best to follow your muse. Let her take you where ever she leads because inspiration can comes from the most unlikely places.
very impressive scifi scene...Bravo!
Fantastic scene(s)! Awesome rendering work! Bravo!!!
Excellent work!!!
excellent and cool!
Super cool ship, you've done a wonderful job on the modelling, and the scenes double take is excellent.
This one shows how versatile you are my friend! Excellent Sci-Fi here!
The lower shot is tops between the two but both are great! The lighted window materials are amazing. Really good stuff!
Nicely done Phil!...fantastic modeling!
Ecclectic is good. It keeps the excitement going and , well, produces images like this. I like it. And I'm going to check out the tuts.
very nice
Yeah, metablobs really work, nice renders!
Great scene and excellent model! It's great that you're experimenting in different genres. I find it really satisfying to hop from one theme to another, in fact it's nearly pinup time on my gallery. Sigh, I guess someone's got to do it! I've just bought Chipps interior pack for Vue 6 so I'll be delaying any upgrade for the time being.
Outstanding Phil!
Phil, I'm so glad that you're all over the place and experimenting, because this looks awesome!!!! Fantastic work my friend!! :)
Very good modelling and sci-fi scene. Good render. Well done.
Super ship and setting. Like this a lot.
Excellent work!!!
Very nice - and I bet a bit less controversial than MY recent stepping out of form LOL! Guess we all have to experiment or we end up in a rut. Nice job!
Wonderful job...love the ship!