I’ll post some progress images shortly of the models being created.
Most of these will be generic fare of Spaceships and space stations, asteroids and space-clutter.

There will also be additional download content that will be available for a small price, models that will resemble that of the old “Traveller” series of pen/paper RPG’s.

Keep in mind that there is copyright issues with creating movie scifi models (Starwars/Star-Trek/Battlestar/Babylon…) so I won’t be treading those waters. I’ll be keeping to an anime, yet still Western influence in my model sets.
I’ll post some progress reports here as we head for testing in March 2011.

Current WIP “Gunship”

Current WIP “Carrier”

Current WIP “Trader”

Trying out OpenCanvas, I’m really impressed with this software!!!
I believe I have found a program with the most responsiveness to the cintiq with its brushes.
For a raster inking line-stroke, this program beats EVERYTHING I’ve used, including Manga Studio.

What I also love about it, is you can click on the image here and watch me create the artwork stroke-by-stroke… yes, it records everything you do! What a great learning tool for people who want to learn how artist create their images, this is truly awesome.
It cost around $80 but it will definitely replace photoshop as an artistic image creation software.

It saddens me to say James has left our material existence on July 12 2010.
Author of many great Scifi novels which inspired me to look into the Electric Universe Theory.

Although I had only conversed with him over the Internet a few times, he was very open to being available to his fans. I was glad to have a few moments of his time.

I wish him well on his transference through the Electrical beyond…
One of my favorite essays written by James is located here:

http://www.jamesphogan.com/talks/talks.php

“Flexible Thinking and Cosmic Electricity”

The article can be seen here: LINK

Astro 3, should be available for purchase in mid- 2010, sporting a new database system, and possibly full 3D avatars.
Additional 3D Scifi Starship packages will also be available soon within SciRPG’s online store (also coming online in 2010).

This little tip will help you get that effect.

This pose is set up within Poser 6 (please ignore the shadow on the left, I’m under the floor plane), a simple pose, but as you can see you can influence the illusion of 3D action by adjusting the Perspective “mm” settings on your camera. The lower the value, the more 3D pop you will get in your render.

Usually, I’ll set up a render in Poser, render it, and then export the result into Manga Studio or Corel Draw. Then rotoscope/paint-over the image as a guide.

I hope this tip helps any 3D artist who wants to know how to make this kind of effect.
Happy Rendering!

~~Richard Kurbis~~

Dan has been gracious enough to send me some personal photos and his own ideas that will help flesh out the video concept.

The entire video will be created/rendered within Carrara 6 pro, and models will be imported from truespace 7.6 and Hexagon 2.5. The base for the male/female models will be altered poser/daz-studio figures.

Please visit Dan’s site here

So far I have much of the US Administration heads created and ready for lip-sync animation. I’ll be posting a movie showing how I create Ron Paul’s head in Anime Studio pro.

I’m also looking for voice actors, I need a female voice as well as a male voice, and I’ll be using voice changing software to enhance them into sounding like the real deal.

I have a few scripts evolving and I hope to be able to make this into a monthly feature on the YouTube channel.

We look forward to more projects with David in the future.