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 (20)
DarkStormCrow
Excellent, great Trek image...
Mavrosh
Oh the good old NCC-1701... great Star Trek render!
shrinkers
Trek has been my fave for 40 years. Thank you. (We host a site of trek-fic - with, of course, lots of poser art!)
tigertim
Excellent.. a terrific render...
DangerousThing
Interesting POV. I don't recall any images from that angle, and it is striking.
arcas
Circles within circles within circles - a very cool composition, if a perilous orbit. I really like the light here, even though it does look like there's two sources. A tightly orbiting binary pair - problem solved! The planet and ring detail is fabulous and DB's Enterprise model looks great. If only it were TOS :) Overall it's a very neat piece - almost as nice as the one of yours that hangs in my living room :D
NefariousDrO
Wow, that's a very striking piece. I agree with arcas' comments on the composition. Very nice!
Seaview123
Really great looking Star Trek picture! Excellent work! I think I still like this version of the Starship best.
geirla
Great POV! I like the aurora (I presume) on the dark side of the planet.
JOELGLAINE
Fantastic picture. This version of the Enterprise is the one I like least, but this picture is dynamite. Good job!
jaguarry3
What can one say but WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!
LBAMagic
Great work. Love the POV
wingnut55
i agree about the pov, great fan-art.
Tamarrion
Excellent! And the best darned version of the Enterprise.
zhaanman
Oh Dude you have No Idea how glade I am to see the REAL ENTERPRISE!!!! This IS The Real Deal, I don't care how many people think the new thing is all that this is it THANK YOU!!!
dbrv6
Great presentation of the enterprise and as Arcas said - cool use of the rings of the satern with the rings of the ship from the pov.
WPL2
Fantastic composition!
potrimpo
And now to confront the mysterious cloud that is heading towards Earth. If they can get the damned warp drive up and running that is.
722
awesom render
Pelican
Why not ?! Awesome point of view !!!