Hi, my name is Karl Stöcker, and I was born a long time ago, way too long, in Berchtesgaden, Germany, grew up in Düsseldorf, and since 1966 have been in the US (mostly). I've traveled a lot, 46 countries by this time, and I am planning on many more. I've spent a couple of decades in the US military, active and reserve, and since retirement from civil service, worked off and on as a high school science teacher in a suburb of Sacramento. Ever since my original ID's Doom days, back when it was just released on a floppy disk as a free level advertisement, I was interested in learning about 3D CGI, but I didn't get started until I retired from civil service in 1996. Since then I have been working with Truespace, Bryce, then Lightwave 3D, and Vue. Also dabbled a little in Poser 4, but just bought Poser 6 and am starting sink my teeth into that a bit. My website, http://www.cosmic-pearl.com/, has more details on me, should anyone not be bored to tears by now, also there are LW Viking ship and Star Wars X-Wing tutorials, as well as downloadable meshes (which can be imported into Vue, BTW) - my free stuff to the CG community.
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Comments (28)
DocMikeB
Awesome sci-fi scene... artificial gravity by the rotation... I hope to see in my life a space station like this really built... (before the 2050...) Congratulations!
sim3344
Excellent work!!!
johnjdesigns
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this!!
theprojectionist
Brilliant,i can reenact this same scene in Celestia
jif3d
Kool homage to Stanley Kubrick's ahead of it's time movie ! It left a big impression on me as well, you have done a great job putting this scene together ! ~Cheers~ :o)
pakled
I always liked Deep Space 9...but don't recognize the zhip..;) j/k..;) Now I've got 'the Blue Danube' stuck in my head....again..;) great modeling...too bad Pan Am didn't make it until 2001, though..;)
TheBear005
Very nice! Great angle on the station, and the planet's atmosphere is well done.
Bill_Wa
Cuse Blue Danube, and........go! Great render. this was probably my favorite scene in the movie.
Pagrin
Nice model work, they look dead on for the shot in the movie. Pagrin :-)
Traligill
Spectacular image and excellent modelling!!!!! Great to see you post something:)
steve100
Great space scene, excellent work.
Platin
Nice homage!!!
Stevew
Great stuff Karl. Better than the movie
tainted_heart
Very cool! I can hear the Blue Danube Waltz playing in the background.
Silgrin
Yes, I love this scene, too! Though not sure if these construction rods should get rusty in the Space;) Great work. I saw the film in a B&W TV set, so it was madly boring:P Then I watched it in much more appropriate conditions and fell in love to it. Pity they added that sd and ne sequel. tupi and aiv;)
pixeltek
Thank you all for your kind comments. Silgrin, I have to say this. The construction parts are not rusty, just copper clad metal frames that will be imbedded and covered up later with paneling. It amused me to see McCall's painting of the 'primered' metal parts, since there is no oxygen in space, nothing could rust (rust being an oxydation process). I picked the texture (no doubt, as did McCall) to make it visually a little more interesting. Of course, for a more boring image, I could just have left the second ring (mirror of the first one) intact (yawn).
3Dillusions
Cool
drifterlee
Awesome!!
Fidelity2
Splendid.
morin3000
Excellent scene of fiction!
smittan
Awsome !!! I can realy hear the music too ;)
Gor111
A stunning SF work! Bravo!!!
Chipka
Splendid render...discovered after a belated browse through your gallery! 2001 is one of my favorite all time movies and the scene you recreated is spectacular! Great work!
Richardphotos
exceptional modeling and I am crazy about scifi
gmvgmvgmv
Great reproduction of a classic scene from a breakthrough film. Terrific work!
pnevai
classic
mambo
Wie ich sehe hast Bryce,Vue, und Lightwave verwendet. Gutes Sifi Model, Bild mit guter Tiefe und Erde.
Crabbycabby
Jaw dropping good. I can even hear the music. Near perfection.