Daddy long legs encounter

I did this the other evening. It came out darker than I had intended, mostly due to tree shadow. Oh well, it works.

The Alien (daddy long legs) is a herbivore I sculpted for Afraid of the Dark. I unfortunately do not have it rigged so it seems off balance in other pictures.

The trees and humans are stock Cinema 4D assets. The rocks are stock Inspire 3D assests.

Now that Google is allowing pics again lets try that shipyard wip shot again...

 

The idea is that the ship under construction is built in blocks in the modules around the exterior of the slip. (pic 2) They are fed by tubes connected to the main station. (yet to be built) Each block is added to others moving downstream to the larger cube to form into Grand Blocks. These are then moved into the main slip and joined to the growing ship.

It's still a work in progress, it has a long ways to go before completion obviously. :)

 

You will be seeing this shipyard design in a future Federation book cover as well as any wikipedia, or tech bible I put out. ;)

 

In other news Mechmaster has given me an update, he's on chapter 27 of Afraid of the Dark... (of 63, hey it's a long book!)

 

I'd also like to thank Gord, Mark, and Jacob for volunteering to proof read. Thanks guys!

Progress report

Hello!
Sorry for the lack of progress reports, I've, well, I can't really say I've been that busy, just distracted.

Ghost Station: Ghost Station is currently out of my hands, (literally) Mechmaster has had it since August of last year. He is currently proof reading Afraid of the Dark though, so it's going to be a while before he gets to Ghost Station. Afraid of the Dark is one of my longest novels. It's pretty ambitious.

The same goes for Princess Rescue inc. He has all 3 books btw, I turned them over to him in August and September of last year. I tried a few other people as proof readers, they failed miserably. (one tried to cheat me by claiming he did the work when he didn't even open the file, grrr) So until I can find someone else who is reliable (and cheap) Mechmaster is my only option. He is a good friend for putting up with me. Unfortunately he is swamped with other projects (like his Dalek comic) so he is very apologetic about being so slow. He said he's doing one or two pages a week.  He is thorough though.

Book 5 Plague Planet is slowly coming along. I do mean slowly, the other books were a lot easier to write than this one. This one is about 25% done. I've sometimes skipped around, writing bits into book 6 and 7 to keep working. (book 7 is the frosting, it's what everything is building up to) That should help finish them faster when I get to them. I've also jotted out some other ideas for stories, including a possible sequel/parallel story to Bootstrap Colony.

I think I need to do a bit more research into some of book 5's subject matter before I get too deep into it. That may take some time. Book 5 is a bit of filler, but it also sets up some characters and a planet for book 8 and some of the short stories. (and there is a cameo in it from book 1)

I think I'm getting carried away with all the tongue and cheek stuff. We'll see what you folks think of it when you get your hands on it. :)

In art news I've been working on the design for book 5's cover art, and I've been working on the shipyard, something I've wanted to do for over 10 years.

Oookay...  the blog wont let me post a pic. Strange. I'll try again later.

I want to thank all of you for pointing out my errors and being patient with me. I admit, synonyms are my downfall. Thanks J. Eaves for pointing a few out. By the way any relation to the John Eaves of Star Trek fame? If so I'm a big fan! lol

So, to summarize, there are books in the pipeline but it's out of my hands folks, thank you for your interest and hopefully something will be finished soon!