I started work on a 15th Century sailing ship called a Cog

 This is the primary reference

Hull and mast

deck details

flag, sails, and rigging

water and environment

cloth sim

UVW mapping

Texturing

Now available in the frosty 4-pack

Now available in the frosty 4-pack

How about a nice frosty beverage?

Peel the tab and enjoy!

Pip-boy 3000

This is a texture mod for Fallout 3.
mod available here: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8734

When I first saw the pipboy ingame, I thought that it looked a little too clean so I extracted the files and dirtied it up a little with rust and scratches.

Lighting and 3D rendering tutorial

This is a tutorial on making a 3 point lighting scene with backscatter and a anaglyph (red/blue) 3D camera rig in 3DS MAX and how to combine the rendered images in Photoshop

First create a Sphere at 0,0,0 of about 2000” and set hemisphere to 0.5 and name it “Stage”

Turn the sphere 90 degrees and move it up so that three horizontal sections are below the 0 line

convert the sphere to poly, then use polygon selection to remove the upper most end cap

Use vertex selection to flatten the bottom of the sphere

Under the modifier roll out select normals (not edit normals) and make sure that flip normals is checked, Under the modifier roll out select mesh smooth

Open the material editor then open the material browser and select architectural materials, select paper from templates, then change the diffuse to white (255, 255, 255) and apply to sphere

freeze stage

create a target camera, make sure that the target is at 0, 0, 0 and that the camera is at 0, 3000, 0 Name the camera “RED” clone a copy of the camera and name it “BLUE”set camera position to 2.5, 3000, 0

create a dummy at 1.25, 3000, 0 and name it “camera helper” link both cameras to it then freeze the cameras, create a dummy at 0, 0, 0 and name it “focal point” link both camera targets to it, then freeze the targets

create a dummy at 0, 1500, 0 and name it root then link camera helper and focal point to root.

create a target spot light, make sure that the target is at 0, 0, 0 Name it “Key light” Turn shadows on and select Area shadows,, move the camera to the behind the cameras

under spotlight perimeters change the hot spot to 30 and falloff to 50 under area shadows set shadow quality and shadow integrity to 15 Set light color to 255, 255, 255

clone a copy of the light, move it to the left of the cameras and name it “Fill light” set multiplier to 0.5 and light color to 255, 245, 180

clone a copy of the light, move it to the right of the cameras and name it “Back light” set multiplier to 0.25 and light color to 180, 245, 255

create a target spot light, make sure that the target is at 0, 0, 0 and that the spotlight is at 0, 0, 65000 name it “Backscatter 1” Turn shadows off set multiplier to 0.2 and light color to 180, 250, 255

clone a copy of the light and move it to 0, 0, -65000 and name it “Backscatter 2”

The scene should look something like this

To create a 3D image render from RED then BLUE camera separately and with the same resolution

open both images in Photoshop

in the rendering from the RED camera open the channels window, select the red channel and copy it

in the rendering from the BLUE camera open the channels window, select the red channel and paste the red channel from the RED camera into the BLUE camera's red channel

THE JAMES ENGINE

 

Designed by  Richard James Cylindrical Motors Ltd. in 1963

more information can be found here: 

http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/POWER/unusualICeng/miscIC/miscIC.htm#j

The Pocket Pal hand held computer

Do ya'll have yer 3D GLASSES!

3D glasses not available in all arias

Lander

This is the lander that the moon buggy rides in

Little old Moon buggy

More to come later

That's it for now, more will be posted later as it is created.

Ferrari

From the far future of 1970 comes the Ferrari 512 S Modulo

TGK-3 Thermal Generator

Designed in Soviet Russia in the 1950's to bring electricity to rural Siberia.

Cargo Spaceship

Trans-planetary and ballistic

Machine Pistol

A Machine pistol with an extended capacity magazine, shoulder stock, foregrip, and compensator. Based on the Colt M1911A1 service pistol.

WW1 Fighters

 Fokker D-1 Triplane

Sopwith Camel

WindOS

Heavily inspired by the early version of Windows and IBM OS2, I think it looks better than Windows 7 and OSX combined.

Off-Road Vehicle

Independent four wheel suspension, four wheel drive, and four wheel steering all with an electric engine.

Classic Tron Light Cycles

Tron light cycle in yellow, orange, red, and blue

Aerial Photography

 St. Johns River 1,000 ft looking West

Walden Lake Subdivision 1,000 ft looking South

Paksdale Farms planters 1,000 ft looking South

 Sunshine Skyway Bridge Tampa, FL 2,000 ft looking South-East

SSTO-47

Single Stage To Orbit 47

Ronald Raygun

A classic sci-fi style ray gun

The inner planets

  

 Venus

 

 Earth

A Green Mars

Sega Genesis

Genesis does what Nintendon't

Asteroids

 We now know exactly what Vesta looks like, but I still like my version.

 1999 KW4 is a binary Earth crossing asteroid

 99942 Apophis will be swinging by Earth on April 13, 2029 with a slight chance of impact

 Ceres is the largest asteroid in the belt and was the first to be discovered

Pallas is the second largest asteroid