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RobCaswell β The Return of Survey One
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Models by Shawnaloroc, background elements by Hameed.Related content
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Excellent work, the picture looks like a painting in some way, I think it comes from the colours ^^
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I often aim for a more painterly treatment, so I'm glad it reads that way!
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Another brilliant piece... I love the moodiness and colour palette in this.
Yet another one of your works that inspires more day-dreaming, like back in the day with Traveller.
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Cool! The fact I can inspire with works like this is the highest measure of success for me
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Very nice. From this angle, the foreground craft reminds me a little bit of the rescue shuttles from Starblazers/Space Cruiser Yamato (the Comet Empire series). Not exactly, of course, but similar enough to me. (I'm weird that way.)
I wonder when the day shall pass when we actually get to witness a scene like this, when we get the excitement of welcoming back a distant voyager & its crew...Β
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I can sorta see the ship resemblance.... at least from this angle
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Mind you, the other angle of the 'lander' craft in "Stabilizing the Orbit" shows that it is rather UNLIKE the Starblazers shuttle. Sorry I forgot to mention that in my earlier comment!
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Good to hear. I was afraid I overdid it with the blues.
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You have a Chris Foss vibe going here to me. Love it, as Foss is one of my faves. Nice work.
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The colony ship is one of those vessels that you cannot truly grasp the size and scope of from only one angle.Β Your previous image impressed upon me that it was a very, very large craft, but I didn't realize how long it was until seeing this.Β This thing is bloody massive!
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Yeah... maybe not a mile long, but still DAMN big!
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totally breathtaking! Β An awesome scene to be sure 
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Still aloving it, The hed and neckΒ remind me of a snake, flicking its tongue,is it the cobra class
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More or less the same thing I thought when I first saw this
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Glad to see you've shaken off the funk...if only I could do the same!
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Funks. Grrrr! I wish I had a formula for shaking them, but they tend to dance to their own drummer.... and he's an unpredictable substance abuser with Mommy issues. For me it was a couple of things: getting the Seeker covers behind me and getting my depression stabilized. I really had no idea that my depression was having such a negative impact on my art. I'm not one who's best results derive from "suffering for my art".
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Depression = bad. Art = good.
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It favorably reminds me of classic sci-fi covers from the late 70s, early 80s, when the "2001" vibe was still not quite dead and the Syd Mead aesthetic was in full influential force. Β
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Well it's pretty obvious that those old book covers are where my visual SF heart lies. So many inspiring images and happy memories
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I read so many books with these sorts of covers in my youth, it's still the first image that comes to mind when think if the genre in print. Β
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Hopefully Survey One didn't suffer the same kind of "little mishap" that the Event Horizon did!
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Nope. "Event Horizon" is forbidden from playing in my universe. Man, did I loathe that film... maybe TOO much?!?!??!
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Heh. I watched Event Horizon again recently. It "improved" with the aid of a few beers.
I just started picking holes in the movie - I tend to do that a lot.
And, if they were going to fire up the 'artificial gravity' on the derelict shipΒ after they found the frozen corpse floating around on the bridge, shouldn't someone have secured the body, instead of letting it shatter on the floor?
I could go on, but you get the idea...
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Thanks man! YOU, my friend, have been totally knocking it out of the ballpark, lately. They stuff you've done in the last year is just beautiful!
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Thanks a lot my friend for your kind words ! I like to improve my skills every single render 
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And you! Your new stuff would make kick ass model kit box art!
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Another great use of these models!
All these "cover art" pics you're doing lately have been inspiring me to write a hard sci-fi story surrounding them. This one for instance is making me think of a story where the crew unknowingly brought back a microscopic, yet highly intelligent organism that seeks to spread through the universe on a starship. Or something like that.
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It's always flattering when one or a series of my images evokes a story! Cool stuff
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Guess it comes from back in my roleplaying days when I would take inspiration for a campaign from the artwork in the books.
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