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 (17)
DarkStormCrow
Excellent work and image, well done...
JOELGLAINE
Great poses and wonderful POV! REALLY dynamic piece.
Biffowitz
Sweet render and a cool POV, it works for me!
arcas
It's another catcam shot, isn't it? Man, someone should travel to the future and reintroduce the invention of the "leash". Love you border treatment - very electric! And the V4 Trooper outfit really shines (literally and figuratively) under your hands.
722
awesom work , great pov
deci6el
The full size pic really sells it. They would be awful creatures. Good luck in the contest.
Kyronimos
Phantastic work!
dbrv6
Very nice Sci-Fi scene and good use of the setting and POV
airpower1
Wow!, great sci-fi scene, and excellent PoV
Cimaira
Wonderful scene and very cool pov.
redhorse
Great render! Add my praises to the chorus for the fantastic POV. Very well done!
LBAMagic
Excellent image and POV
Apercu
love the POV
clam73
lovely view and posing....great sci-fi scene.....excellent!
JeffersonAF
Very good image, excellent pose.
katy555
Great image, the texture and the lighting is fantastic...
chimera46
I concur with Arcas, and the POV and DOF here worked out great!