Rawkets Renders

Been a while since my last update, but mostly because I've been pretty busy. I'm working on a spacey commission at the moment, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to post a crop of the image, as well as my sketches and images of the rough 3D model I made in Sketchup to incorporate into the image. Hope you like it!

Galactic Tour Test

Andree Wallin and I have been discussing the idea that in films, we never get to spend enough time just gawking at planets. The establishing shot lasts a few moments, and then it's gone. We're always left feeling like we should have spent more time up there in orbit.

Anyway, we're kicking around ideas for putting together a sort of galactic tour using matte painting, 3D, and animation techniques. It's a way to put together a journey that shows us what some of the places in our galaxy might look like, both from orbit and down on the surface.



This video is just a small test for the project, recycling some of the Hayling tests into a whole new thing. It really captures the mood and level of 'epicness' I hope to achieve, largely in part to Armand Amar's music. And speaking of music, we hope to get something original composed for it as well.

I've also gotta give credit to nvseal on dA for the title planet, and freelancah on dA for the star stock.
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Landscape Sketches

Been doing a lot of landscape sketches lately too, just to loosen up and test some new brushes. I have a whole slew of them that I might take to finish, probably do some color versions of the sketches first though.

Top one was inspired by the Transformers 3 trailer, which looks awesome. Who knows how the movie itself will turn out, though. Click them to enlarge.