Tribute to 'Valley of a Billion Stars' by dcmstarships

TrueSpace • Science Fiction • posted on Dec 25, 2004

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This image is a tribute to space artist Robert McCall's painting, "Valley of a Billion Stars", done in 1991. McCall's painting can be seen on page 111 of "The Art of Robert McCall: A Celebration of Our Future in Space", published in 1992 by Bantam. The starship, which I have dubbed "Starship Epiphany", was modeled and rendered using TrueSpace 6.6. The background started out as an image from a Hubble Space Telescope website; it has been heavily modified using Photoshop 7, Corel Photo-Paint 12, and Universe Image Creator 1.63. The running lights and basic engine exhaust were also added using Universe Images Creator with the engine blast receiving some final tweaking in Corel Draw 12. While I perceive McCall's spaceship design as a large exploratory vessel perhaps hundreds of meters long, I believe it could also be interpreted as a sizable interstellar probe directed by a sentient computer. Robert McCall is of my two favorite space artists / speculative spaceship design heroes.