Cover amulet sketch

the “Book Cover” book cover

inside cover page.

Captain Ace Dipper had lost the most important baseball game for his crew which sent them to man the worst space ship in fleet.  As the crew orbits the greatest intergalactic star battle earth has ever seen, the crew tries to help when their actions finish the battle with a bang that sends them sailing across the galaxy becoming an enemy to everyone, even their own.  It’s only after the smoke clears that they realize they’re in some pretty deep…

This crazy series will be filming over the course of three weeks in December 2009.  With 8 episodes shot in April, the cast and crew have decided to come back and make a 6 episode series that will explore the real background of Deep 5.H.1.T.   The 6 episode series will be sent as part of a full spoof series that will pitched to the Comedy Network at CTV in January. It’s gonna be deep and fluffy… LOL

Many thanks to the volunteer crew (18 hands including really talented props builders, makeup, writers, camera man, editors, producer etc…) we got it done super quick. After the dust settled, the ship dissembled and recycled into other props, we realized it was way too much fun not to polish and rework into the rubber chicken gem that it truly is.

[3D done in Modo, other elements including logo and console in illustrator and photoshop]

Here is a rough example of the first episode filmed April 09

1st concept renders I created for the ridiculous shooting schedule we had in “yesterday” time. The ship’s front and side sections were removable for shooting with locked off, hand held or steady-cam or extra lighting. We were able to pump 4k+ through the ceiling lighting area with simple floods.

some stills from “test-isodes”

The next image is from Modo 401 where the modeling, lighting, texture mapping and posing were completed.

4 renders where created  @ 3300 pixels x 5100 pixels each (tabloid print resolution) using global illumination, reflections, depth of field and alpha channels including: 2 texture map renders for background, one for the mic and it’s reflections, and an alpha.

the final photoshop file took several hours to design, layout and then type was added.

about 20 hours from begining to completion including prepress for magazine ad and short run 11″x17″ poster. cccp propaganda and art deco posters where a loose inspiration for this illustration.

branding, creative, poster design + production

I wanted to explore/create space and movement with line and layers. I also wanted my image to say something. Calligraphy, is a 2D graphic discipline that uses the gesture of the hand to elicit an aesthetic and Ballet could be considered a 3D equivalent to that. I also wanted create an integrated / designed piece of work that felt like it had a purpose, even if only to inspire thought.

Prima was literally the poster-child for North America’s 1st ROLAND LEC 300 @ PRINT WORLD 2008 in Toronto Canada.

Seth Rowanwood (inklight) was one of three finalists / winners for the first quarter of the illustrators of the future contest for my submitted works entitled: “Embrace” (quidam, modo, photoshop), “The Last Underworld” (photoshop, poser) and “Razmon Dulchii””(quidam, modo, photoshop). The winners will appear in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXVI which will be released in 2010. http://wotfblog.galaxypress.com/ http://www.writersofthefuture.com