The Dark Side of the Moon Part (III) by Bambam131
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This is the third in my new series showing the USS George Washington entering orbit around the dark side of the moon or as one may say the side that cannot be viewed from earth. The pictures of the moon were taken by the Clementine spacecraft launched by the DOD in 1994. All models created in Bryce5 from scratch, concepts and designs by me. Postwork starfield created in Universe one by one. All pictures of moon by way of JPL NASA. This is a on going work in progress and as I move forward I will be posting the moon lander (Falcon) leaving the command ship and than landing on the moon. Thanks for viewing...
David...;-)
Comments (5)
foleypro
As I have said before excellent modeling
RayTraz
fine modelling. need more color & texture though.
SaitekPolk
Just for your information, the lighting is wrong. When I first looked at it i thought the craters were bubbles. The light on the ship appears to come from the upper-left, but to create those shadows in the craters on the moon the light would have come from the right. Smething to think about. Great modeling on the ship though.
Bambam131
Raytraz, thanks for the comment. The reason I don't use that many textures is because Im just not going for that "Starwars" effect. In space you don't want to have a lot of dark color because of lack of atmosphere to block direct light radiation from the sun. Most people that posts works of spacecraft flying through space are not I believe trying to base there subject matter on sound scientific principle. Don't get me wrong I think that the images are wonderful but I also think that it's based more on fantasy than on science. You'll also notice that my spacecraft do not have wings nor tails sections, that is because my ship are design for interplanetary travel only, aerodynamics is the last thing that these ships where design around, these spacecraft are not design for entering the atmosphere and landing. I design smaller ships for that purpose that you see attached to the main spacecraft. I hope this help explains why you see my spacecrafts as is. Again thanks for viewing my work. David
Bambam131
SaitekPolk, thanks for your comment also. I take it that you didn't read where the picture of the moon came from. Their is nothing that I can do about how the light falls on the craters because this is a real picture of the moon (not a texture). Believe me I thought about that before I posted this picture too...;-) David