Gilligan's Planet by lwperkins
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I've been super busy with work, but this is one I can share..this is the working version, the final was a little different. (You can tell because there is a flaw at the bottom of the planet limb). The story was about a space traveller who crash-lands on a planet, and the next 20 years of adventures there. The ship was only described as "small" so I made the ship look like...the Minnow. In space. It kept me entertained all day while I was working on it, and the author was a good sport and had me only adjust the terrain to match the story and add a fin to one side of "the Minnow." Some days my job is great:). This author also pays RIGHT AWAY, so I am happy to do whatever he needs on short notice.
The best part? The ship took me about an hour because it is the Crab Dog mech, Vanishing Point's Robo Shark turned upside down, and Richabri's Classic Rayguns for the engines.
Comments (43)
drifterlee
Really fantastic render!
parrotdolphin
Cool lookin' Minnow!!
anitalee
Excellent
puffle_huff
This is so...COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLAH!
daggerwilldo
Really creative. Fine effort
kobaltkween
This is just classic. You controlled the special effects aspects (fire, distant galaxies, etc.) well, so that they're eye catching without overwhelming the image. It's really cool to see cover art that's different than a simple photo manipulation, awesome as those can be. I really like the composition. And kudos for designing your own continents.
mgtcs
WOW...Spectacular work my friend, beautiful space scene, marvelous ship and effects, congratulations!
aubedo
it's a nice sf-work...
mapps
LO my friends and I play some SF RPGs. I make jokes about the most popular show being "Gilligan's Asteroid" :-) hugs
Zazou
Great concept for the ship and planet ! Excellent image !
DangerousThing
Fabulous work! The ship reminds me of Kelly Freas' work. Would you be able to tell us of the publisher or perhaps the title of the book? It sounds interesting. And just the picture and the title would make the beginnings of a great filk song. "The mate was a little pilot droid, ..." It's late, the first line is all I can dig out of my poor brain.
Chipka
Gilligan's Planet...now there is a concept! You do wonderful work and I really do need to catch up on it! What struck me about this whole image (the title included) is it got me to thinking about a lot of things in my past: primarily a story I read in an old, old, old, old issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I remember the story distinctly. I can't remember the author's name, but I suppose I can google it. The title, as I remember it, was: "Softly Touch the Stranger's Mind." It was the first First Contact story I remember reading and it was quite a gentle piece of science fiction, involving a human and a "shipwrecked" alien (depicted as a giant grasshopper sort of being.) I think was was so poignant about the story is that the human and the alien communicated in a child-like, innocent way...despite the real language barrier between them, they built sand castles. THAT was the whole point of the story and for some reason I thought of that as I saw this image. Funny how that works, and as for the image, it's superbly done! Your work is marvelous and vivid and even with a flawed planet limb this is outstanding.
fu-minn
Very dynamic and fantastic scene! Looks like a scene from a movie!! Great work!!