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      faust07
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      Looks like a frame from a MSPhysics explosion in a not so far future (2019) with a nice SketchUp rendering.

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        liam887
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        @faust07 said:

        Looks like a frame from a MSPhysics explosion in a not so far future (2019) with a nice SketchUp rendering.

        Thanks, I should have something in three days.

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          liam887
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          I am making an animation for an event that I work at every month in Gothenburg at the Concert House. I am on route to Amsterdam for work but the flights are so expensive where I live (£350+) I took a four hour bus to Copenhagen and saved myself about £200!.

          I made this, the first frame of the animation this morning. I took some photos from streetview as well as some from Google so its reasonably accurate but didn't need to go into too much detail.

          I used the same process as usual but took some extra shading for the interior shadows.

          Side note, its £9.41 for a beer in the airport, bloody Danes! 😮 😲


          CMGB.jpg


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            Pixero
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            Hi Liam.
            Great image.
            I see that you work in Gothenburg. Thats just an hour north of Halmstad where I live.
            You didn't happen to attend the Arch Viz Days at Lindholmen (Gothenburg) last week? It was a great event.

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              liam887
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              @pixero said:

              Hi Liam.
              Great image.
              I see that you work in Gothenburg. Thats just an hour north of Halmstad where I live.
              You didn't happen to attend the Arch Viz Days at Lindholmen (Gothenburg) last week? It was a great event.

              No I saw it but could not make it. Well I 'live' in Gothenburg but no luck with work, still freelancing for old client's in London. Flying to Amsterdam now actually to try and drum up some more clients...

              I went through Halmstad on the bus this morning on the way to Copenhagen (airport)! You must let me know next time you are in town and we can grab a beer!

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                majid
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                Verry cool and inspiring approach.... this is great!

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                  HornOxx
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                  ... so wonderful art work again - look forward so much to the continuation ❗ 😛

                  @liam887 said:

                  ... its £9.41 for a beer in the airport, bloody ... 😮 😲

                  AUAAA !!

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                  never trust a skinny cook

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                    liam887
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                    Silver lining, finally in Amsterdam and got a real pint for £4!

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                      HornOxx
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                      Skål - Cheers - Prost

                      http://clipground.com/images/alcoholic-clipart-11.jpg

                      never trust a skinny cook

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                        liam887
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                        @hornoxx said:

                        Skål - Cheers - Prost

                        http://clipground.com/images/alcoholic-clipart-11.jpg

                        Prost to be accurate as I am working (in a pub) and a bunch of Germans just sat down at my table!

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                          liam887
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                          Technically cheating with this one as I used a cay render and it's not a raw illustration. This is the base for a VR experience I am working on for the same Concert House. Don't have blueprints yet so this is what I worked out from photos and Google Street View (they have an interior walk-around.


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                            liam887
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                            Here is another illustration that will be an interactive 'map' for an app I am making. Again, slightly cheating as I used a clay render as the base before painting over the top in Photoshop. I had hoped to paint the whole thing but the tight time scale I had meant it would have taken too long to shade in all of the floor and wall panels nice enough.

                            Users will 'hopefully' navigate this map and when they select a room then can then view it in VR either in 3D or as a photo taken with A 360 camera.

                            The model I created above was eyeballed from images on Google Maps, however I was able to acquire the blueprints to the building so I went back to make it accurately so it will match up with the photos. I was quite close on some of the larger areas but you can see in others I was way off haha!


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                              liam887
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                              Here is a shot from some ongoing freelance. The illustration will form part of the front cover of a magazine.


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                                liam887
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                                The image of the server farm just did not work for the magazine cover so I will use it for one of the features inside, instead I used an image of some upright servers. Lot's of Photoshop work, the glass was created using the standard brown gradient in Photoshop, inverted and then set to overlay. It gives a nice 'reflection' effect.

                                All of the lights in both illustrations are just white objects with outer glow applied in Photoshop.


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                                  Mike Amos
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                                  Rock and roll Liam, rock and roll.

                                  Absentia mortis praesentiam vitae probat, vita autem est argumentum constantiae.

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                                    liam887
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                                    Space X Mars shuttle braking into Mars parking orbit.

                                    Powered by a Linear Fusion Gasdynamic Mirror Engine it's able to complete a 170 day round trip between Earth and Mars on a standard Brachistochrone trajectory (accelerating to 50% distance then flipping around and decelerating for the remaining 50%).

                                    This specific ship has been contracted by the Chinese government to transport workers for the Mars Elevator construction programme. It will be met in Mars orbit by a fleet of small shuttles to re-supply and perform basic maintenance before the trip back to Earth.

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                                      tuna1957
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                                      liam, your work is just crazy good ! 👍

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                                        liam887
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                                        @tuna1957 said:

                                        liam, your work is just crazy good ! 👍

                                        Cheers, this one however was put together really quick, only perhaps 8 individual components just repeated in different fashions/combined etc! I did it last week and forgot but just found it on my PC desktop.

                                        I am trying to move away from rendering and really just using sketchup as an illustration aide.

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                                          liam887
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                                          Maersk Line Orbital freighter in Neptune orbit. Powered by eight VASIMR plasma driven engines (variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket), the freighter moves bulk cargo from low orbit to high orbit where it’s transferred to larger interplanetary freighters.

                                          The VASIMR engine is highly efficient compared to a traditional chemical engine able to move 34 metric tons of cargo to a higher orbit for only 8 tons of expended fuel. However the trade off is that it’s incredibly slow taking months to achieve this rather than days.

                                          Therefore crews in the haulage business will typically sign up for a 12 month round trip tour. Although this type of work does not pay very well compared to the 10+ year interstellar tours, the trade off is that you always get a good view and are no more than eight hours from a conversation with home.

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