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therealraxxis
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[2006-07-02 12:32:58 +0000 UTC]
"Not an artist"
(Taiwan)
# Statistics
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Watching: 94; Pageviews: 87171; Comments Made: 1282; Friends: 94
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Robertson, Ryan Church, Feng ZhuFavorite movies: Aliens, Star Wars Trilogy, Dumb and Dumber
Favorite TV shows: Don't watch TV
Favorite bands / musical artists: Collective Soul, Rammstein, Hans Zimmer, Rok Nardin, Clau||M, John Dreamer
Favorite books: LOTR, Elegant Universe, History of Nearly Everything, The 4-Hour Work Week
Favorite writers: Tolkien, Yeats, Shelley
Favorite games: Star Wars Battlefront
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Tools of the Trade: Imagination, willingness to think outside the box
Other Interests: coding, writing, imagining, trying to stay sane
# About me
Current Residence: Taipei, TaiwanFavourite genre of music: Rock, Orchestral, Soundtracks
Operating System: PC
Favourite cartoon character: Stewie Griffin
Personal Quote: Tally ho, mofo!
# Comments
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Hey, I was wondering if you took commissions for ship designs. Hit me up in notes if so. Thanks!
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I am busy at the moment so am not doing commissions at present. Sorry.
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Hey just wanted to say I just found your gallery. It's amazing! Do you take like, commissions at all? I don't think I've seen anything like what you do before.
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Thanks very much. Glad you like it. Yes, I do commissions if they seem interesting and I am allowed creative freedom.
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Your work is amazing ! I love science fiction, I love ships and I love your job !
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Thanks very much. Glad you like my work.
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Dude, cant believe I didn't notice you sooner, your ships are phenomenal,
Consider yourself watched.
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Thanks very much. I appreciate your compliments.
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Something I've often wondered about, and that you likely have too, is what do you suppose camouflage in space would look like. Would it be painted black to blend into the darkness, or be given more of a "razzle dazzle" pattern like on World War One battleships, designed to deceive attackers as to the true shape, size, and location of the craft? Would it vary by region, such as asteroid belt camouflage, or certain colors to blend in based on the color of light being cast by nearby stars? What might a military camouflage scheme look like versus something composed by a pirate or smuggler?
I've often wondered how something like that would work in "practical" sci-fi, but I'm curious as to what your thoughts might be, or if it's all truly obsolete by the time we've moved onto plasma weapons.
Keep up the awesome work mate, you've got a positively stunning armada here! Cheers!
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Thanks for the question. I have wondered about it and have been tempted to start using some crazy color schemes, but I have always assumed that ships that close to close quarters battle (like dogfighters) would have some sort of active visual shrouding compound coating much of their exterior that would make them blend nearly seamlessly into their surroundings - if you can't see it, it's more difficult to hit. Granted, most combat ships would rely on numerous detection and scanning systems that feed data to AI targeting systems that are independent of visual sights, so, for the most part, the visual shrouding would be overkill. But it would affect morale, bolstering that of their crews and degrading that of the enemy. And in many cases, pilots of ships damaged by enemy fire - where targeting systems or AI nodes are knocked out - would have to switch to good ol' visual target acquisition, making the job nearly impossible. Other vessels like capital ships, destroyers, frigates and the like wouldn't worry too much about camouflage as an combat they engage in would be beyond visual range, so they could be luminous pink for all intents and purposes. However, dark, menacing color schemes would look cooler.
That's my 2 cents worth, anyway.
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Very interesting, thanks for the insight mate! Cheers!
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your designs are pretty cool, and i like all those pieces if extra info in the description
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Thank you. Glad you like it.
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Thank you - the actual 3D work is by Tony Celliers and I just do the touching up. I'll pass your comment on to Tony. Thanks again.
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Thank you. Will do.
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Hello, Love the Drawings! Would you be interested in doing some commissions?
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Thanks for the comment. Can you give me more info about what you need done and I'll let you know if I can help (probably best to send a private message).
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Hello, Your ships are really beautiful ! Did your draw it with a computer, or on paper ? If it's with your computer, what is your software please, I try to learn how to drawing ships like that !
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Thanks for the kind words. I draw most of the ships on normal photo-copy paper with Copic markers (although any concept art type marker series should do) and normal Hi-Tec black pens (0.3 and 0.4 size nibs). I do clean the images up a little on computer using PhotoPlus (or now Affinity Photo). I have done some vector-based work as well, which I do in Xara (it's the easiest package to use for drawing, IMHO).
It comes down to the idea and the functionality of the design, I think, more than how pretty it is. My advice would be to start with simple designs and work up to the more complicated stuff. Let me know if you have any more questions and thanks again for the comments. Good luck with you art.
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Hello Friend. I really enjoyed of your ships. Are they available for licensing? I am interested in using some of them in a game I am creating.
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Hi. Yes, they are. Send me a private message and let me know what you need and more details about your project. Thanks
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Hey there, do you have a contact page anywhere? I viewed your website but didn't find anything there. I was wanting to ask you about doing a commission piece for me and it's cost. My email is isidria@hotmail.com thank you and Best! - John Prescott
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I love your design concepts. Their so detailed and clean. If you don't mind me asking how would you determine a ships hull Width?
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Thanks for the comment. I determine the width by "eyeballing" it while doing the rough sketch with a very light marker. At this point, it just comes naturally so I don't really have to adjust it too much, if at all. Like everything, it's just practice.
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