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Published: 2014-07-10 04:47:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 4692; Favourites: 156; Downloads: 0
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This is a tribute to one of my favorite SciFi Authors Stanislaw Lem and his humoristic "Star Diaries" featuring the space traveller Ijon Tichy.Here my own little episode: "Intermezzo on planet X"
Log entry from Ijon Tichy: Crashlanded onΒ unknown planet. I should have repaired the hatch as planned in the Jupiter-Docks. Took me two hours to open the hatch by hand. Planet seems to be covered by vegetation, but no intelligent lifeforms detected. Since my ship has been severely damaged, I will have to wait for the rescue team. May take a couple of month. Luckily I am carrying my survival pack ACME-4000 and an antique NASA-swiss knife with me.
Vue 10 Xstream. Ship is originally a Tripod from War of the Worlds, I used some parts of it to put my ship together in LightWave 11.6. Plants from AsileFX. No postwork, just added my signature.
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Very nice job on this. 
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Like I mentioned in the description:Β Vue 10 Xstream. Nowerdays I use a newer version Vue Infinite 2015.
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i'm no expert on shipwrecks, but I love this image. Very well done.
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Neither am I an expert with shipwrecks.Β Thank you so much Eremes2703 for your nice comment.
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Just kidding. I was referring to the interesting conversation with garryts.
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You just enjoy yourself.
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Sorry, das habe ich nicht verstanden. (~_^)
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Ich meinte (frei uebersetzt): "Fuehl dich ganz wie zuhause."
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Verstanden. Vielen Dank. Ich werde dich bald wieder besuchen, deine Arbeiten gefallen mir sehr (frei ΓΌbersetzt) (~_^)
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Freut mich zu hoeren (lesen). Es ehrt mich sehr, dass dir meine Render gefallen. Momentan bin ich gerade dabei, einen selbstmodellierten Plesiosaurier in Szene zu setzen. (Modelliert in LightWave und texturiert und Displacementmaps in 3D Coat erstellt, Render in Vue 10). Coming soon...
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Very cool work, a real gem. I love spacewreck artwork and this has been very well done.
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Thank you so much, RealTimeBrush. I love Science Fiction and surely will continue to polish my skills. This one was an entry for a little SF contest we had in our Facebook Group. Got the second place.
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Congratulations, looking at the image it was certainly well deserved.
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I am hugely fascinated by spacewrecks - all because of this book www.digitalwaterfalls.co.uk/spβ¦
You have produced a gorgeous example... Very, very well done. Great render!
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That's the book that fired my imagination with spacewrecks too 
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I bought a book (which I still have) by Roger Dean (the designer of the album covers for the band 'Yes' in the 70's) and his brother called 'The flights Of Icarus'... It was a collection of art by the best artists of the era, for books, albums, and so on. There were several pieces that appeared in 'Spacewrecks' - most notably by Angus Mckie media-cache-cd0.pinimg.com/736β¦
Anyway, I was finally able to track a copy of Stewart Cowley's Terran Trade Authority 'Spacewrecks's book on eBay in the early 2000's
I DO love spacewrecks!
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I remember I had an illustrated book as a child with handpainted artwork of science fiction. I think it was focused on ships and one of the images was a space junkyard with a space shuttle. Impressed me a lot. Sadly the book got lost. Thanks for all the nice comments.
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You had it! Β That's from The Terran Trade Authority "Spacewrecks"... Pages 82-83 'The Graveyard of Beta Pavonis"... It's an illustration by the (sadly, late) great Peter Elson.
Here's the illustration secure.flickr.com/photos/ericeβ¦
...and Peter Elson's website, run by his sister: www.peterelson.co.uk/
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That's the painting that I was talking about! Great that you knew it. And the other link point to the painting of the book of what I was talking. I am so happy to be able to take again a look at these extraordinary artworks. Thank you so much.
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I love those Terran Trade Authority books - some great artists created images for them, as well as Peter Elson... Angus McKie, Jim Burns, Tony Roberts, Colin Hay - these were amongst the top artists of the time.
Fantastic stuff!
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Indeed very inspiring artworks. I would love to replicate some of the scenes, lighting and texturing in 3D.Β
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I very much agree Β A lot of my inspiration comes from these artists, as well as others like Chris Foss www.chrisfossart.com/
Just such cool illustrations!
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Wow, thanks for the link. Very welcome.
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Thank you garryts for the nice comment. Glad you like the render.
As you can imagine I don't know this book but everthing is valid to inspire our imagination and being fascninated.
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Don't worry - I'm sure your image is all your own work... The book is ancient and very much a 'British' thing!
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No problem. I wasn't talking about my scene but in general.
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Ah, sorry! It was very late when I posted that - was tired and didn't notice the change to a more general discussion! Β
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Thanks for the smiley.
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