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Published: 2011-01-12 19:31:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 11197; Favourites: 151; Downloads: 509
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Doing mostly hard drive maintenance, today. But I decided to a quick 2D-3D integration using the X-33 from Kenny's Crap.DAZ Studio/Photoshop.
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As always excellent work! Please do more futuristic SSTO/TSTO Vehicles. Aerospike engines. Yet another promising, under-appreciated, technology come a cropper because of NASA's incompetence.
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I'm not sure I'd blame NASA on this one. There was a lot of politics in the mix, too.
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Beautiful but very painful to see this. I was a contractor involved with the Venture Star effort at NASA Ames. End of story.
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Yeah, Venture Star... THERE'S a program that I miss! And reading about the debacle that ultimately killed it is even more painful.
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Good catch by the watcher re: an ESA launch site. I first thought Vandenburg.
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Yup - it was built on an Airane V launch image.
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i keep coming back to your stuff man, so many awesome compositions. i think you're becoming an influence on me, no pressure or anything. hahaha! george.
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That's one thing I love about this art community - there's so much great influence to be had... and in flows back and forth and all around!
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This should so be the next design for space craft technology!
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Well it was...and sorta is, if only it got the funding.
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now That's A Lift Off!
Don't know which has 2 and which 3 D. And except for that is a good thing, it doesn't matter at all, cause the result is what counts (in my humbly devious opinion)
And here it is a big WrrOoooOOooom! Or so....
Great composition, great power and great dynamic even without any "movement-effect" in it!
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If you can't tell which is 2D and which is 3D, I count that as a total success!! 
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Sweet next gen shuttle. Reminds me of the one in the Enterprise intro.
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I believe that was Kenny's inspiration.
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Looks like that Transformer: Mini-Con... Sonar? (is that it's name?)
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I wish NASA would just do something cool like this for once. Also, the polys visible in the vertical stabilizer...are they supposed to look that way?
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Yep, they are. They're supposed to be panel/tile differentiations, I think. I actually toned them down quite a bit from the texture default.
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Okay, just checking. I would have found it so impossibly odd for you to ever make a mistake haha
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Nice work!
btw its disappointing that we never will see a real X Shuttle.
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Never say never. The future is not written.
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Who knows? With all the commercial companies taking interest in space travel, I wouldn't be surprised if the Venturestar actually got revived like Orion.
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What's the launch pad behind ? It seems to be from a real picture.
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It's an ESA launch facility.
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Yeah, that's what I tough. I would say that it is the Ariane5 launch pad (I visited it)... Nice job !
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BINGO! I had to Photoshop the ESA and Ariane logos off the gantry structure
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