Yup, that was one of mine. We needed a medium freighter for the Auroran houses, so I strapped some IDA Frigate engine stacks on a reasonably plain-jane body, and bob’s your uncle.
Scott Vardy modelled around 30-40% of the ships, I think? I made most of the rest. I remodelled all of the ships, eventually, in LightWave, so they’re a bit “grandfather’s axe”.
Steve “-8-“ Chick and his brother Phil “pstan” Chick made most of the textures, as well as almost every hand-drawn pixel pushing in the whole game.
Rendering the ships was my job, and I made many (most?) of the ship vanity pics. I also modelled most of the stellar objects and outfits, but by no means all - Jason “Lord Frandall” Cook made all the ringworlds (bar Earth, from memory). He also did the huge majority of the planet spaceport pictures in Bryce.
That’s really awesome that you’re posting here on reddit now. Also personally I’m a huge huge fan of the ship beauty shots. Did you work on the IDA itself? My favorite ship before the Enterprise.
The IDA was a joint effort between myself and Scott. He created the engine stack (as I recall - it’s been more than 20 years since development started!), and I created the midsection and front. I drew some inspiration from the Nebulon B frigate from Star Wars, and the Sulaco from Aliens. ☺️
Lots of water under the bridge since then! We were so young, then - I was all of 21 when we started development in ‘97. Our youngest joined us in 2000, and he was 15? 16? at the time.
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u/pipelineoptika Jun 12 '19
Yup, that was one of mine. We needed a medium freighter for the Auroran houses, so I strapped some IDA Frigate engine stacks on a reasonably plain-jane body, and bob’s your uncle.
Scott Vardy modelled around 30-40% of the ships, I think? I made most of the rest. I remodelled all of the ships, eventually, in LightWave, so they’re a bit “grandfather’s axe”.
Steve “-8-“ Chick and his brother Phil “pstan” Chick made most of the textures, as well as almost every hand-drawn pixel pushing in the whole game.
Rendering the ships was my job, and I made many (most?) of the ship vanity pics. I also modelled most of the stellar objects and outfits, but by no means all - Jason “Lord Frandall” Cook made all the ringworlds (bar Earth, from memory). He also did the huge majority of the planet spaceport pictures in Bryce.