n17 structural illustration

[mmiller]

I Did a series of phantom views of the UK variant of the N17 for cross and cockade. the book has still not been published, but after almost 2 years i figured i waited long enough:D
I posted the French version a while back but it seems to have disapeared.

http://mwmiller.theaerodrome.com/n17/ukvariant/n17c5.jpg

more here:
http://mwmiller.theaerodrome.com/n17/index.html

[Galgot]

I love it :)
Glad to see some work from you again.

[kevjon]

Mark, your modelling and texturing of cutaways are first rate. Stunning amount of detail....you can really see how these planes were built.

[Spinner]

Frustrating for you to have work of this quality moulding away on a publisher's backlog.
Thanks for sharing it with us.

[Danoku]

So good to see your work again, top shelf as always, are you still doing all this with Mircostation?

[mmiller]

thanks guys
nice to be back

spinner - truth is - C&C is just a non-profit organisation dedicated to WW1 aviation.
so, it is more a "donation" on my part , if you know what i mean ;)
I was never realy obliged to keep the images out of circulation, more of a curtesy thing.

Danoku - yes, I'm still using microstation for everything.
I have been exposed to a lot of software lately that would probably do a better job.
but at this point I have a pretty extensive infrastructure of parts and textures specificaly configured to microstation.
hard to give it up
mark

[pccdtk]

Superb !!! As always .....Im happy to see some of your work again ....( However, I downloaded you old site and ,when I need inspiration ,I see again your cutaway renders ...)

[Skyraider3D]

Fantastic work Mark! :)
Glad to have you back!

[Spinner]

I was never realy obliged to keep the images out of circulation, more of a curtesy thing.

mark

Don't mind me. I'm a bit down on publishers at the moment.

Now you mention it C&C does ring a positive bell.

[digiartist]

simply stunning!

[krazycolin]

absolutely amazing...

[bzhyoyo]

top notch like everything you've done Mark. And useful ref for other modellers too.

[Martocticvs]

Awesome work as always - welcome to the header!

[kiwi123]

yay, well done !

[Lukem]

Microstation? You mean the alternative to AutoCAD? It's capable of that? Superb work - love the texturing, certainly of the engine parts.

[cobra6]

congrats on the header, well deserved!

Cobra 6

[digiartist]

congrats indeed on the well deserved header!

[Nils]

Microstation? You mean the alternative to AutoCAD? It's capable of that? Superb work - love the texturing, certainly of the engine parts.

I believe Microstation is capable of quite a bit more. I' ve seen the work my brother in law does, creating design drawings for oil plattforms (you know the big b*stards in the North Sea) using partly microstation. It's quite impressing stuff.
Of course I never tell him that :)

Your models rocks MM!

[Lukem]

I use AutoCAD as my day job (at the moment, not for much longer hopefully), more in a 2D fashion, but I have had to create the odd 3D visualisation and I've found Acad to be absolutely hopeless - certainly not capable of this kind of work (either that or I'm missing something!)

But we also use MX (MOSS) which is now under the same company as Microstation - I have asked if moving across to that software would be an option.

Just to get back on topic - well done on the header!:D

[mmiller]

yes, it's all done in an old version of microstation which is very similiar to autocad.
well, all the modeling and rendering is done in microstation - photoshop plays a big part in texture generation and final comp.

I used microstation when I worked for perkin-elmer/hughes/raytheon/goodrich aerospace as a tech illustrator
started back in the mid 80s when it was run on a vax mainframe - had to work on these huge dedicated workstations.
rendering tools were pretty rudimentary back then.
i have some old renderings that were photographed off the screen around here somewhere.
I should post them - might be good for a laugh.

I've used autocad briefly and it is amazingly similiar to microstation.
i'm not entirely sure, but I think it is probably capable of generating some good renderings.

generaly speaking, I think just about all CAD applications are capable of generating high end illustration.
but, they are engineering tools, and engineers generaly don't want or need fancy photo-realistic illustrations.
with the exception of architects - who do have a real need for photoreal renderings.
microsation is pretty popular with architects and they do some nice stuff with it.
so, maybe the visualasation tools are a little beter than most to cater to the architects ?


thanks for the header

[kevjon]

Posted by mmiller
I've used autocad briefly and it is amazingly similiar to microstation.
i'm not entirely sure, but I think it is probably capable of generating some good renderings.



The new version of Autocad 2007 should be quite good for rendering as they have included the full version of Mental Ray into it for the first time. Over the past 10 years the modelling & rendering tools in Autocad remained virtually unchanged but this new release they have had a major revamp. I would think that very good results should be achievable.

Congrats on the header mark.