hailsanta.bsky.social

A quick work in progress -- generating random silhouettes and just elaborating on them to force myself to try new shapes. Also, now that I'm on 5.2 and have geonodes bevel my panel split setup is one globally editable modifier at long last.

As always, my laziness is powered by the BMS starship kit (though I rarely use it unmodified these days)

A little bit of WIP stuff -- cut up a plane model in the tradition of ILM and made something out of it. No textures because laptop.

A bit more work on compositing and materials (don't mind the model, it's just a placeholder) based on some of the 3d SW art by EC Henry/Angelos Karderinis (and the original concept paintings) I'm not quite happy with it yet but part of that is just an issue with the placeholder model.

Not really happy with this warmup -- result of a bit of silhouette sketching. But I have to wrap it up eventually.

Of course I got distracted and started modeling internals for no reason, why wouldn't I do that?

Of course I got distracted and started modeling internals for no reason, why wouldn't I do that?

Long time no PBR (and TTT). This is a (WIP) tether-limited freighter with a large post-tether DV budget. The composite hull is partly for insulation and partly for collision protection in crowded environments. Hydrolox propulsion and a few thousand tons of useful cargo. But mostly tankage.

A quick and crunchy texturebashed ship just to get the shapes down

A very large MMO warship -- more stuff from the end of the period I'm focusing on in TTT. This one belongs to Yad and is notable for its size (~680m)

A revised background with some advection bullshit on the background. I should maybe paint a flow map instead of doing it this way but whatever lol.

A bit of earlier tests of the background and compositing setup in yesterday's scene starring @elukka.bsky.social's missile cruiser and an An Nath class. Obviously these ships don't actually coexist but the An Nath is probably representative of many ships that exist in Elukka's setting as well.

A bit of work revising the Padanshee. This is a hard to translate word and is often translated poorly as 'Vanguard' (sanewashing) or 'Mouth-Vanguard.' 'Padanshee' refers to both the class of warship as well as the Witch King's volunteer troops.

But 'End-Vanguard' or 'Zero-Vanguard' is more faithful; the mouth symbolizes endings rather than beginnings in Naran Lat and zero is a mouth. A common motif here is 'Teeth of the Witch King.' But if you were translating it to English, a more faithful effort might be 'Horseman [Of The Apocalypse]'

A bit of quick environment work -- I started doing Piotr Kryński's excellent environment art tutorial but found an interesting shape and got distracted (and disregarded a lot of the composition stuff in the process). So I'll have to go back and do the actual tutorial. 🙃

A poster commission for @tomwhite.bsky.social's retro game inspired by classis like Escape Velocity for the Playdate handheld, Hyper Vector. You can check the game out here: play.date/games/hyper-...

Sometimes you just wake up and decide to make a shitpost art.

Long time no art! Dealing with a bunch of health issues (mine and my dog's) but back on the horse with some relatively lazy personal work. Having a vehicle crew that's >'3 "6 is a path to powers that some would consider unnatural.