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Title: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by Briney on Jan 8^th, 2012 at 10:38pm

I thought I'd post things in here from time to time of personal projects.

I had some time off from work recently and made the Ecto-1A from Ghostbusters 2. I'm currently adapting the equipment on top to represent the Ecto-1 from the first film.

I'm also rendering the image for a 5 foot by 3 foot poster. I doubt I'll be allowed to hang it anywhere but my office. ;D

Will post more images as they get made!

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by X on Jan 22^nd, 2012 at 10:30pm

I forgot to say how much I loved your rendition, Briney.

The Ecto 2 is all about details and you, sir....nailed it. I love the old tires and the wear and tear on the body. The phone number and the chrome makes it look very realistic. I esp. like the use of the Statue of Liberty in the title.

As you were doing all the top work did you ever figure out what all of that does? I've always been curious. It looks like they use a different fuel source with your tubing going into the gas tank area. Do you know what it is?

It's awesome you started to do art again that you enjoy. I really hope you keep posting it up for us to see. We've all come a long way from the rocket shadow on the Earth...always been a fan of the GB car...it's nice to see it lifelike again.

X

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by b0b on Jan 22^nd, 2012 at 11:18pm

I agree completely. That is an amazing rendition, Briney! Out of curiosity, do you have the old version you did in high school? It'd be nice to see the "before and after" effect.

-b0b
(...loves it!)

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by X on Jan 23^rd, 2012 at 12:30am

Ya, throw up some Bryce 3D stuff too!

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by Briney on Jan 23^rd, 2012 at 11:33am

Thank you fellas, I really appreciate the comments! I'll post a few images of the gbcar back in fresh year of college when I get home. Over the weekend I just finished the ecto-1, the first Ghostbusters car. I'll prolly rerender the Ecto-1a with less dirt because it's "newer."

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by b0b on Jan 23^rd, 2012 at 11:40am

New website? What happened to Briney.Net? ;p

I love the work you've posted. I didn't know you got a gig with Field & Stream! That shotshell is amazing!

-b0b
(...yay guns!)

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by X on Jan 24^th, 2012 at 1:38am

Yes! Thanks for posting up new art Briney, esp. your Pop Sci and other magazine stuff.

I didn't know you finished "Frank" up. I like the stubble you gave him.

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by Briney on Mar 17^th, 2012 at 2:00am

New popsci is out! It has a firetruck and a mens birth control illustration in there!

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by b0b on Mar 18^th, 2012 at 1:15am

That looks awesome, Briney!

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by X on Mar 18^th, 2012 at 1:23pm

Very cool!

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by Briney on Jun 15^th, 2012 at 10:50pm

Now this one was fun to make :)

A 2 page spread for their article on climate change skeptics. They censored it a bit in the magazine tho. I haven't read the article yet but I'm sure its biased heh.

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by Briney on Jun 15^th, 2012 at 11:02pm

Couple more recent ones I didn't post yet.

Electric plane 2 pager:

Outdoor life doing a breakdown of how a suppressor works:

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by X on Jun 16^th, 2012 at 12:14am

Is the last one suppose to be a hybrid of a conventional bullet plus a rail gun?

Also, what's the small hook on the underside of the nose of the plane? Is it to cut through the air before it gets to the first set of wings?

They look great as always, sir.

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by b0b on Jun 16^th, 2012 at 12:46am

I'm thinking the "hook" is a pitot tube, but I could be wrong. Pitot tubes are used on aircraft to measure airspeed.

Briney, your artwork never fails to amaze. Thanks for sharing!

-b0b
(...eye candy!)

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by pezmasterelite on Jun 16^th, 2012 at 10:31am

Briney I am so proud of all the crazy stuff I have seen you do, it is amazing, like I said, I really like to see you doing what you like so much.

pez

b.t.w. I have really old images of stuff you did in H.S. somewhere...

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by Briney on Jan 17^th, 2013 at 1:49am

Some of you saw at the Lan that I've created the bridge of the Enterprise NCC 1701-D (season 3-7) in the Unreal game engine. There are reflections, lighting, realistic shaders, normal maps, etc. All of it runs at a high resolution with a very high framerate. I've aimed for as much accuracy as I can see from the show.

I believe I have figured out how to make other parts of the ship using simple building blocks. It should make building large sections of the ship easier. We will see how that goes.

I plan on... well... seeing how far down in decks I can create, starting with deck 2.

Sooo,

Here is the bridge and the Captains ready room. Extra points if you can name some of the objects in the ready room! Parts are still Work in Progress as I fine tune things.

The colors were hard to get because everything is so desaturated in the old copies of the show. I've kindof used a combination of set photos, the blu ray discs, and my own judgement on what color things were.

Thanks for viewing! I'll make a youtube vid for Deck 1 when I finish the observation lounge!

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by The_Fat_Man on Jan 17^th, 2013 at 2:51am

Briney that is pretty awesome dude.

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by b0b on Jan 17^th, 2013 at 8:13pm

Dang, Briney, that's amazing! It's every bit as awesome as we've come to expect from you.

You've got to turn that into a UT3 map for the next LAN party!

-b0b
(...w00t!)

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by X on Jan 18^th, 2013 at 7:57am

Oh that would be great. Except instead of firing at each other, we'd all be checking out Briney's textures and labels!

X

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by pezmasterelite on Jan 18^th, 2013 at 8:55am

Briney that is superb, really looks detailed.

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by Briney on Feb 4^th, 2013 at 2:17am

Conference Room: (Circa seasons 6-7 so no starships on the inner wall)

Beginnings of Deck 2: This is the small area around the bridge. I am testing my corridor pieces here. At the end of the hall are stairs that lead to deck 3 (Data, Troi, Worf, LaForge's quarters) Deck 4 is the giant shuttlebay. That should be fun

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by X on Feb 4^th, 2013 at 7:35am

Nice, did you find that art piece you were looking for?

X

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by b0b on Feb 4^th, 2013 at 8:16am

Briney, I'm as impressed as ever. That looks phenomenal.

I can't wait for the full tour!

-b0b
(...and the UT3 map!)

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by X on Feb 5^th, 2013 at 1:20pm

Briney...you must add this in there somewhere:

http://i.imgur.com/wAuwF.gif

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by Briney on Mar 3^rd, 2013 at 1:58pm

Exterior material/lighting test in unreal. The ship is roughly modeled out at this point. I won't make any more work in progress posts in here unless somethings done. If you want to follow my progress, I've been posting on this site:

http://enterprised3d.wordpress.com/

For now I'm keeping the whole thing anonymous and off any other sites, if you guys could keep that going, I'd be grateful.

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by b0b on Mar 3^rd, 2013 at 7:23pm

That looks amazing, Briney!

By the way, if you want a real blog, I'd be happy to host it for you.

-b0b
(...has MovableType installed on the server.)

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by MediaMaster on Jul 4^th, 2013 at 11:51am

Did a rendering of the Lady and I on a date night. Going to print this on canvas and put it above the fireplace. This was a fun style change, and I think I'm going to do more like this.

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by b0b on Jul 4^th, 2013 at 12:08pm

Good stuff, Briney! It definitely seems like a big style change for you!

-b0b
(...you really nailed your wife's face!)

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by The_Fat_Man on Jul 4^th, 2013 at 11:08pm

Briney it truly is almost inspiring to see how far your skills have come since high school old buddy.

Title: Re: Briney's Random Art Thread
Post by X on Jul 5^th, 2013 at 2:26pm

Agreed with Wes on that statement. Awesome job, sir. Wow.

X