Deep Space Explorer Inquiry Image 1-2 by dcmstarships
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Deep Space Explorer "Inquiry" was one of the largest Human exploration vessels ever built by the Interstellar Exploration Corps. This roughly 1000 meter long vessel served during the late 2nd Era of Human star-faring travel. While primarily a ship of long-range, long-term research, "Inquiry" was well armed for its size with four energy beam channelers, eight energy bolt launchers and sixteen manipulation beam quad arrays. The manipulation beam arrays fired rapidly alternating attraction and repulusion beams that of rapidly shook their targets. Assisting the titanic vessel in its duties were four smaller starships, usually two Deep Space Scouts and two Deep Space Guardians. A total of twenty-four "Inquiry" Class Deep Space Explorers were constructed and most had long and productive careers.
Deep Space Explorer "Inquiry" is the first project of a major website overhaul I have been working on over the summer of 2004. The website update includes a new science fiction background for my 3D CGI designs, the "Fellowship of Star-Faring Sentients" universe. The first stage of my website rebuild should be posted in early September 2004. Interested viewers are invited to visit my site: www.dcmstarships.com.
Deep Space Explorer "Inquiry" was modeled and rendered using TrueSpace 6.6 over the summer of 2004. The textures used came from a variety of sources including a Hubble Space Telescope website, Marlin's Amazing Sci-Fi textures, Jerry Westfall, and P. Bourke as well as Renderosity artists Eromanric and Django. I also used a texture I custom made for an earlier 3D CGI project, "Affirmation Station." Running lights were added using Universe Image Creator 1.63. The fading banner was added using CorelDraw 12.
The design for Deep Space Explorer "Inquiry" is a tribute to my two all-time favorite speculative spaceship designers, Robert McCall and Chris Foss. The McCall influence is most pronounced on the front of the vessel and the Foss influence is most evident on the back.

Comments (14)
I like this shot better than the last one! Very cool!
Excellent light !!! Very good POV !!! I like this scene !!! ;)
Excellent work David!!!
...Like the scale and POV on this! Keep up the amazing work!
Lovely scene ! Its works in Sci-fi style are really very pretty and with an excellent concept. Congratulations !
Very well done David, I really like the look of this ship! The ship itself has a wonderful organic feel to it. The textures and colors really set the model off and gives the impression of an enormous structure. Well done my friend, excellent as always!!!!
It's interesting to see the ship from this POV, too. I like the details, like the docking ports. Nice work, David! :)
thanks everyone for the such supportive comments on this project; guess I had better get started on the next one! :-)
Grand POV and detail
this awesome care to detailes is so impressive.
Excellent model and POV ! I can't wait to see more...
Very great idea... you should work on the textures! But if i tried to do something like a "capital-ship" it has never been this style... Original!
this excellent work, outstanding in depth and modeling..
This is a very good composition! Beautiful picture! Excellent artwork! Fantastic image!