Digital "I" Designs - Original SF Image

- Bryce Primitives Challenge - Destroyer Convoy... -

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The Bryce List Challenge for December involved creating a construct consisting entirely of the various geometric 'primitive' shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder, cone, etc.) found in Bryce. (For me, the bigger challenge was finding time to assemble and post this page, since the image was completed a couple of weeks ago, but carolling and other Christmas preparations have severely curtailed my free time...)

This Destroyer consists entirely of the Bryce primitive forms, in various combinations, in some cases skewed within Bryce, in others combined into more complicated groups and boolean shapes.

I cannot claim complete originality here... The design of the Destroyer was partially based on the image '73' by achtung_333, at Renderosity; although most of the ship is of my own design (with a nod to Babylon 5 as well!), the influence is obvious, especially at the prow and the reactor modules - it would seem these ships were both products of the same shipyards. (Yeah, that's it!...)

Also, the space backdrop is an original, but based on the techniques described by photoshop space guru Greg Martin in his Tutorials section. (I'm not giving the exact URL to the StarField tutorial, simply because his site is flat-out amazing, and I think you'll enjoy having a look around...) Greg has been an inspiration to me since my first days of playing with 3D modelling programs - at the time, he had some wonderful original 3D space-ships featured in his then-current work, but he appears to have taken those old images down now - pity!

Oh, and while Greg's tutorial is written for Photoshop, I was able to recreate all the steps in PhotoPaint, my photo-editor of choice, without any problems. I then added a layer of dust created in Glitterato and a few flared stars created in Universe, to complete my starscape... Oh, and a planet created in LunarCell.

Below, you will find some additional views of the ship - click on a thumbnail to see that view, then you can navigate forward and back, or return to this page via the 'home' button...

Created Using:

Corel Bryce 5;
Background created with Corel PhotoPaint 9.