Tom Peters is an illustrator, graphic designer, and writer. His early career included serving as Technical Illustrator at Interstel, subcontracting to NASA, supporting several projects related to the Space Shuttle.
Tom served as the Technical Editor for Digest Group Publications, as well as providing many illustrations within the DGP product line, producing material for the TRAVELLER RPG.
Tom has provided art work for almost every version of Traveller, including MegaTraveller, Traveller: The New Era, Marc Miller’s Traveller, and GURPS Traveller.
In addition to his illustrations for Traveller, Tom has provided art work for West End Games’ TORG, Game Designers’ Workshop’s Traveller:2300 (later changed to 2300 A.D.), Space:1889, and Challenge magazine , FASA’s Renegade Legion, and Battletech games, among others.
Tom’s involvement in the Game Industry continued through the ’90s, moving from the paper and pen field to computer gaming. He joined Virtual World Entertainment, Inc. In 1992 as an artist, working on concept art, interface design, and visual game development. He then migrated to graphic and marketing design and finished with the company as the Marketing Art Director. His completed computer game projects include TESLA BattleTech and Red Planet, Microprose’s MechCommander, Hasbro Interactive’s Axis and Allies: Iron Cross, and Microsoft’s MechAssault.
As a freelance Illustrator, he has provided cover paintings for acclaimed authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden Universe Companion 1 and 2, as well as two of their Chap Books. He has worked with Science Fiction author Allen Steele on the visual and functional design of the spacecraft in Steele’s novel Spindrift.
Tom currently lives in Illinois, just west of Chicago, with his wife, Diane, and 4 semi-autonomous Greeligs. He works as an Adjunct Professor at DuPage Community College, teaching Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and other digital graphic tools, and continues his career as a graphic artist and illustrator.
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Comments (18)
Whatthe
Really awesome work! Love the way the lighting and colors all work together!
angelbearzs
relly excellent secne and awesome image!!!!:)
Renderholic
Excellent render. Nice depth and lighting.
MRX3010
Your POV and setting of mood are perfect IMO.
jedi_killer05
Top sci-fi image , very well done.
Rutra
I like it. Good POV, good pose, good sky, good colors, good light.
JOELGLAINE
Andre Norton Rules! Great mood impact like the old days of wonder and romance! Literally, the sky was the limit then. You captured the feel of that elusive something I seek in images as well. Great work!
meselfr
very cool scene... :)
Ahmed4
Wow ..really cool image....Travellers was a good game as well...though not too many people i knew played it....
Hefrian_Rotter
Mucho Traveller-SF Hoo-AH IISS Scout Dittoes! da 'Rotter (still writing for, & still playing Traveller)
Thorak
Nice Pose Expression and lights, Excellently done!!
DAVARON
A fascinating sense of atmosphere, very nice Pose and expression, Well done!!
chimera46
Superb work! Top quality rendering and I love the POV and composition. well done!
arcas
Outstand POV and lighting - especially for being all D|S. The atmospheric haze is perfect and the warm light on the face gives such a wonderful sense to the whole image. Love the bow shocks on the Type S, as well. Nice touch.
GARNETROSE
a wonderful peice
richardandtracy
The starship is remarkably like vehicles proposed as waveriders - hypersonic lifting body vehicles operating at mach 10+ powered by supersonic ram jets (scramjets). I wish they were possible and economical with current technology. A wonderful representation of a sci-fi scene. well done.
Denger
"It's always great to see a Sulie, as in your remarkable snapshot. Kimash!"
gaff
Outstanding!