[Traveller Art]Solomani Trader

[middenface]

 

[Sigtrygg]

Nicely done, I always liked this ship from the first time I saw it in the Alien module.

 

[middenface]

 

[Old School]

Great work!

 

[steve98052]

Cool picture!

How do you do the shaded line drawing look of the ship? Is it just a matter of rendering both wire frame and shaded?

 

[middenface]

 

[middenface]

Cool picture!

How do you do the shaded line drawing look of the ship? Is it just a matter of rendering both wire frame and shaded?

Yeah, pretty much. The colour image is a render and the line image is the raw export from Sketchup. That's a dwg file then converted to illustrator ai file and finally open both in Photoshop.
The line image is a layer over the colour image, you have to scale and move it to match up.

 

[steve98052]

Thanks for the enlightenment. I may do some renders too, time permitting.

 

[Old School]

It takes three software packages to make that image? Wow.

 

[paltrysum]

Thanks for sharing your process, Ian. The results are of course stupendous! Looking forward to more.

 

[middenface]

If you require plans...
https://www.patreon.com/biomassart

You have to sign up of course. Don't expect so much work for free...

 

[middenface]

It takes three software packages to make that image? Wow.

Yeah, pretty much. Although the illustrator bit is quick. Sometimes I do a few edits though, line thickness, missing lines, wrong lines or other bits I fix.
The awkward bit is fitting the line image over the colour image (or shadow image)

 

[steve98052]

I showed my wife the errata book discussion, and she suggested that I ask Traveller artists for donations to make the errata book look cool. Would you like to contribute an illustration (or a few) to the errata book, assuming you have an illustration that's a thematic fit for the text?

If yes, that thread is probably the right place to discuss it.

 

[Sageryne]

Thread resurrection!

The Type SA Solomani Free Trader is now available through [TAS] on DriveThruRPG. Check it out!

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[-Daniel-]

This is the first Moon Toad publication I regret buying. Sad but true. I would request a refund if I could. I was very disappointed.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Why?