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VulnePro — Braxim Starship

Published: 2005-12-09 18:56:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 2089; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 182
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Description This one’s from 2000, done in Photoshop at a time when I was just beginning to work with CG color so I personally feel it’s not all that impressive in execution, I’d do it quite differently now but I like the overall feel the colors have in the basic sense (too dark though, at the time my old monitor was going and I did brighten the image a bit today). This is from an old freelance project I did working with and Drunken Style Studio for the now defunct Fantastacon website. My role was in coming up with conceptual designs for some of the vehicles and settings. It was an online webcomic with a kung fu/sci-fi theme. The project was called Hypertide and is re-running on this local Detroit area hip-hop producer’s site (top left corner is the link on the page):

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There’s a VERY organic theme running through the designs for this project. I was told by Paul (the project’s writer) that the ships were organic and almost liquid in appearance. If I remember right the creatures who made this thing were sorta liquid based but it’s been awhile, memory hazy. I saw the vessels as twisting and fluid, almost like syrup slowly dripping in a twisted spiral so that’s where I took them. I figured seeing as how I haven't posted any spaceships and there's so many great artists posting them I'd toss in one of a few I've done in the past

Ink, PhotoShop 5.5 CG colors.
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Comments: 9

zJoriz [2008-04-08 15:19:25 +0000 UTC]

Sweet design again!

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Psysaturn [2006-08-31 23:47:31 +0000 UTC]

Thats cool. Kind of got an organic feel to it. Just for fun or part of a group test you were doing? It seems like you might of made a few before deciding this was best...

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VulnePro In reply to Psysaturn [2006-09-26 08:09:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, sorry for the delayed response though. It was the final design and was intended for a webcomic that was running on the now defunct multimedia site Fantasticon.

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amade [2005-12-10 13:30:09 +0000 UTC]

Though it was made in the same year as the cityscape, this one looks like you've improved a lot by miles in a short space of time. I rather like the lighting around the edges which doesn't make the neutral grey look dull.

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VulnePro In reply to amade [2005-12-10 19:29:54 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, actually I do beleive I did this one after the cityscape and I did apply some things I learned from doing the last one. Overall this one still looks kinda nice right now but I prob would approach it differently now. Thanks for the comments

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DarkWizard83 [2005-12-10 05:26:42 +0000 UTC]

Very intersting design, looks very biomechanical.

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VulnePro In reply to DarkWizard83 [2005-12-10 19:53:27 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Yeah, from what I was told about the basic idea back when I did it I believe it was bio-mech.

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Daemoria [2005-12-10 00:57:32 +0000 UTC]

The neubula is a very nice touch. Only recently have I found out why sci-fi artist include them into space scapes. It's for increasing edge definition for whatever is in the scene.

The small little high contrast lights really give a sense of scale for this ship. Is it a super capital classification?

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VulnePro In reply to Daemoria [2005-12-10 01:33:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah the nebula was added to contrast and bring the ship's silhouette to the forefront, that and I rather like painting ‘em. I guess I need to do more spacecraft for an excuse to paint more nebula LOL Not sure if it’s a super capitol class as I’m not too familiar with the classification. Admittedly on this one I didn’t have the deepest sense of the world setting or background to approach the design, it was pretty much a basic idea that’s in the post description. With that I just kinda got spontaneous and let the whole drippy spiral shape happen and from there when putting the windows in I ended up making it a rather massive vessel in size. Even though the CG colors are fairly basic as to how I would do them now I still rather like this one and the city scene I posted today from this same job. They both have a nice feel to them but as I mention in my post they suffered from being a wee bit too dark, the result of a failing monitor at the time. I'm glad you dig it though and it was nice of you to fav her drippy spaceshippedness

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