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Dude, you are incredible! I haven't got a uterus, but I want your baby!

Ha! I knew I should be starstuck! Man, Kanastrous, that is really awesome! Thanks so much for sharing these! I hope there is more to come (If you're authorized to share, that is.)

Again, Thank you!!!

Well, thanks, you're very kind!

*Reads imdb page.* Dude, you were a Drazi? Kickass!

Umm, nice art-dump, too.

I was an airsick Drazi.

Barfing in Jerry Doyle's lap was the high point of the show, for me...

Kanastrous wrote:From my hard drive at work...
*SNIP*

Do you have a bigger version of the Ennis-Brown House Interior? It looks cool.

I have a higher-res file on another drive.

Those are actually frames from an animated fly-through.

Woah woah woah woah WOAH

That is AWESOME. Any chance of higher-res version of that? (I loved Seaquest.)

Also, did you make these?

Yes; I designed sets for the pilot, was a playback-graphics designer/animator for seasons 1-2, and playback supervisor for season 3.

Uraniun235 wrote:
That is AWESOME. Any chance of higher-res version of that? (I loved Seaquest.)

Seconded. Higher res would be neat.

The original frames were 640x480 (or 704x480).

I'll see about putting them up.

are you allowed to tell us what you're working on currently? (Or better yet, SHOW us?) *puppy dog*

Kanastrous wrote:The original frames were 640x480 (or 704x480).

I'll see about putting them up.

You could always put them in a zip archive and use rapidshare for ease of sharing.

What art proggie did you use for the mechanical drawings? Or were they done by hand and scanned in?

The drawings are all hand-work, except for the two 'G-Force' illos, which were modeled in Lightwave and rendered in Sketchup.

Kanastrous wrote:Yes; I designed sets for the pilot, was a playback-graphics designer/animator for seasons 1-2, and playback supervisor for season 3.

Holy shit, that is AWESOME!

Man, I love the sets in season 1, especially the bridge. That's my favorite bridge of all televised sci-fi. The animations on those big screens really contributed a lot as well.

Were those just big rear-projection screens they used for the large displays?

Yeah, the big displays up front were rear-screens fed by Eiki LCD projectors. The smaller displays were direct-view LCDs and - briefly - we had a hemispherical 'navigation display' fed from underneath by a smaller projector. The side-displays were also rear-screen setups.

I only did bits and pieces of the bridge; the control console units (and there's a horror story...), the dolphin tank, and the VR Probe control station.

The Moon Pool/Sea Deck was my main set.

I also liked the look of the bridge, a lot, but it always struck me as weird, having this enormous unbraced volume of space, in a submarine, inside a pressure hull. But hey, it looked cool, and it was just a tv show...

I saw the sniper system and accessories, including the "sniper snacks". That made me laugh.

Incredible work dude! What are you doing now?

I'm Art Directing on a Bruckheimer feature, "G-Force," at Culver Studios.

And, as you can see, I'm in my office, on Saturday.

Wheeee.

Some more stuff...

*edit*

moved up the page, to keep stuff together...

Gasp! The One! I am Nobody's Bitch!

Did you come up with that awesome font in The One as well?

Oh gawd...there's a story surrounding that font...

The short version: it's a commercially available font; comes with any one of a number of font collections.

I worked together with the Graphic Designer, creating those backlit panels (he did about half of the individual panels; I did about half) and that font was *his* choice...so the Production Designer walks by, looks at the font, sez he likes, it, and the Graphic Designer says something like, yeah, I created that font! The PD nods, walks off, and an hour later is at my desk, asking did so-and-so *really* create that font, it being obvious that he knew damn well that it was off-the-shelf, and the GD was snowing him.

So I mumbled something about it being, like, a basic commercial font that the guy had adapted, or something...

That Graphic Designer does not work, any more. No mystery, why.

He had also created most of the control-panel graphics for the Quantum Tunneler Machine itself, and convinced the producers that, well, they should put him in costume, and he should play the operator, since "the controls are laid out with a certain logic, and he can't teach an extra to work them and make it look real."

So during a take where Jason Statham yanks the operator away from the console, so as to get at the controls, he gets a little too into it, and basically flings the guy face-first into the wall of the set, hard enough that he had to go to the medic with a bloody nose and take the rest of the day...

...but he's in the movie!

That is so awesome. Well, sucks to be him. At least he's...well, not famous. Damn!

I only did bits and pieces of the bridge; the control console units (and there's a horror story...),

Can it be story time please?