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)
alessimarco
A magnificent ship! Excellent light and postwork!
mermaid
very well done on the clouds and the light!
JOELGLAINE
Damned fine job! I really mean WOWEE! Really fantastic job. Looks as fine as the original movie.
Black_Knyght
WOW !!! Very nicely done! The cloud coverage here really adds a wonderful aspect to this image, Damn fine job.
geirla
Great looking scene!
arcas
Interesting and impressive on first blush, but honestly it's not as refined as some of your self-designed spaceship imagery. One thing that may have helped would have been more of a vertical blur on your cloud layer to imply motion. That and a generally darker scene would have delivered a finer impression of descending through the stormy murk. So - time for another Leonov pic, right? RIGHY?!?!?
TomPeters
arcas, I think a foreground layer blurred vertically might do it. And maybe some of your extraordinary PSD lighting effects for more murk!
DangerousThing
I love the image, and the model is beautiful.
Darklorddc
Beautiful work.
Biffowitz
Very cool render!
dcmstarships
very nice render!
zhaanman
Very Cool design love the name as well Awesome!!!
dbrv6
Great render!
pixeltek
Well done! I like the volumetric lights idea.
Denger
Easy to see why it was buffeted about so much during its descent. Not very aerodynamic! Great render, FIVE STARS