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here is a star trek space ship i have been workin on and i thought you guys might tell me how do make it look better(right now it sucks) feel free to d/l it and play around with it.
Ross A.
Smile, it makes people wonder what your are thinking.... or just tell them...
here is a star trek space ship i have been workin on and i thought you guys might tell me how do make it look better(right now it sucks) feel free to d/l it and play around with it.
Ross A.
Smile, it makes people wonder what your are thinking.... or just tell them...
here is the pic
Ross A
Smile, it makes people wonder what your are thinking.... or just tell them...
Ross there are many things that you can do to make this image better. I don't know where to start. You could add more depth to the image by using shading or beveling. You could use more colors instead of just gray. Maybe if you work through some of Gary's tutorials it will give you some ideas of how to improve your image. Check out the all of the information at the Xaraxone.
http://www.xaraxone.com
Well I think its fair to say you have a little way to go, but hopefully this 100% Xara creation will inspire you [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Stu.
That is beautiful Stuart! As soon as I look at it the theme music starts playing in my head.
Robert
Ross - The advice to check out the xara tutorials at Gary Priester's xaraxone.com is very valuable. The tutorials are without a doubt your fastest way to learn the xara skills necessary to draw a fantastic image as Stu has presented.
Don't be intimidated. A great thing about Xara is that it is relatively easy to learn. Complex, highly-detailed drawings like Stu's use the same drawing skills as more straightforward illustrations - The significant difference really just relates to the artist's attention span and motivation. For instance, I know I have the technical drawing skills to do what Stu has done (immodest of me eh?) but I certainly lack the motivation to put in the hours drawing a detailed image like his must have taken. My point is that if you work at learning xara drawing skills there are practically no limits technically on what you can draw if you are motivated. Please do give some of Gary's XaraXone tutorials a try - you'll be amazed at the skills you'll learn. Those skills can then be applied to whatever drawing project you are inspired to undertake. It really won't take long for you to significantly improve your skills.
I know you are young. Bring some of your youthful enthusiasm to learning xara and you'll amaze yourself with what you can achieve. I highlight an example image by forum participant Steve Newport. At the time he created the image I believe he was fifteen. I hope you can be inspired by Steve to sit down and study Gary's tutorials. I really look forward to seeing the images you create in six months...
Regards, Ross (the other one)
<a href=http://www.designstop.com/>DesignStop.Com</a>
here is one i am making for a Q basic program
Note* This is how he wants it to look
Ross A
Smile, it makes people wonder what your are thinking.... or just tell them...
[Moderator edit - I've resampled the image and reposted it at half the pixel width it was originally posted. Ross A - in the future please refrain from posting images over 1500pix wide unless there are special requirements. It would be nice if everyone would treatr 550pix wide as a maximum. --- Ross (The Moderator one)]
[This message was edited by Ross Macintosh on October 04, 2001 at 13:32.]
man ur good.
The only problem is i do not have much time to read TUTs . so i mostly have to print them out(Beacsue in the last year i habe Gone 12,000 miles around the states) but i will try.....
Ross A.
Smile, it makes people wonder what your are thinking.... or just tell them...
ok this is wierd but... Did any of you see the star trek Premiere "Broken bow" ?
just wondering
Ross A.
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Now how the heck did you do the lights on the Uss enterprise ? PLZ TELL ME ! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Ross A.
Smile, it makes people wonder what your are thinking.... or just tell them...
Stuart:
Are you the guy whose work used to be on Xara's gallery? Those were top top illustrations, mate! Are they still there? Or have they been dropped since they were done in CorelXara 2?
Anyway, still awesome!
Nick Wilkinson.
IsoCalc.com
Nick - Stuart is indeed the guy you are thinking about. He is the master of Star Trek technical drawings. Here and here are some very large images he posted in the past.
(Ross when you see the images at these links perhaps you'll reconsider and head over to the tutorials. You could be doing work like Stuarts far sooner if you make an effort to learn the program efficiently).
Regards, Ross
<a href=http://www.designstop.com/>DesignStop.Com</a>
Nick,
I think I must be the person you're thinking of. They're quite old now, being done way back when CorelXara 2 was released (some were even started with Xara 1.5).
For your delight (!) here is another...
How did I do the lights?
To be perfectly honest, there is nothing special about the lights, just lots of various transparencies placed cunningly together. I used blends to achieve a glow type effect - this would be better achived now in Xara X with the shadow tool and contour tool.
If you look at any one small section of the drawing you see it for what it is, a collection of shaded and transparent layered shapes; viewed as a whole however, it takes on hopefully a more 'real' detailed view. Here are a few close-ups...
Stu.
Hey stu Do you have a web site (cause alot of my friends want those pics) and if you don't i think you need one casue you ROCK ! any way. can you post you xar. file ? i thought i might be able to get some ideas !
Ross A.
What Would Chairs look like if our legs bent the other way ?
Hey Stu, can we get an even closer view of the windows in your picture with a larger picture, because If I'm seeing right there's a detailed room inside them!
Steve Newport
Ross, I do have a site for some of my Star Trek pics - its old now and I've not done anything with it for years (despite threats from people who keep wanting to see new stuff!!)
Its at www.netcomuk.co.uk/~trekart.
The website uses (used?) the Xara plug-in which a few years ago seemed a great idea, until Flash became the norm. It works very well though, lets you zoom right in just as if you had opened the file in Xara...
Stu.
Very, very (very!) well done.
Thanks very much, Ric.
I wish at times I could spend some more time doing work like that for fun, however the content of the Trekart site was born from times when I wasn't hard at work developing in SQL and boning up on asp.net [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Stu.
Ross,
Unfortunately my original Xara files are kinda too large to post here. However if you follow the link to my old website and view the Vector versions of the ship schematics, you should find the .web files in your browser cache which you can then open in Xara.
Stu