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 (15)
makostail
That is sweet, both the render and the news. I always loved the TV show UFO
arcas
Ain't no messin' with the classic (Here me, JJ??)!
DangerousThing
Great render! And but of course they're going to mess with it. Sometimes it works out - the new Battlestar Galactica turned a comedy into something with real potential and interest. However, most other remakes fall flat. Here's hoping UFO works out again!
JOELGLAINE
Wow...Kick-ass render! One of the better undersea shots, I've seen around here.
gmartini42
I'd never heard of UFO before. Thanks for the intro via your great render. I agree with JOELGLAINE, nice underwater shot.
DaiKepler
Beautiful model and render! I nearly forgot about UFO. Thanks for the reminder!
Pagrin
A movie could be great. Let hope the Hollywood machine keeps it hand off the project, so that we get a movie with a half decent storyline. Great image. The Interceptors were always my favorite, but Skydiver is a very close second. Pagrin :-)
Black_Knyght
Nicely done !!! I always loved this combo/ship.
Franzjoseph
Once Gerry Anderson took the strings off his characters, I lost interest. But the hardware was still brilliant, Skydiver being a classic. Do you know Product Enterprises did a Die - Cast model ?. Its out of production now, as are Supercar, Fireball, Stingray,but you can get them on E-Bay no doubt. Great Render.
zhaanman
SWEET!!!! Love this image you captured the feel and look PERFECTLY!!! Man I've loved shows like that still Ha! I love how you filtered the light through the water so naturaly like that awesome look just too Cool! You gotta do Stingray now come on Pleeeeease! Can you tell I love my Subs Ha!
dbrv6
Great looking image and underwater scene.
rdboles
WoW!! Excellent work!
Penters
I had'nt heard they were considering a UFO film! thanks for the heads up..and thanks for the excellent pic..love it!
mgtcs
Excellent work, amazing color and lighting!
yankee30
SHADO-rifict !!!