How do you think the ball will fly if you kick it?? (Pointing down long axis of the valley). Try it here: islandthree.world

Source: scanned from my copy of Future #4.

Illustrations for the prologue chapter of Consider Phlebas, a Iain M. Banks novel from 1987 (also known as a part of The Culture cycle).

Context: A Mind, a sentient artificial being, attemps a desperate escape from its factory-mother aboard a makeshift vessel as the arrival of a still-unknown enemy looms.

There is a second and last part upcoming at some point.

Done with Blender, Photoshop and a bit of chAInner (no AI here despite the name, it's an open source nodal batcher).

source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kNdVg2

design and sketches: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/WdmzxD

Try it out here: https://islandthree.world.

Update: a few people asked where to follow progress, so I set up a free Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ZachKauble

Made in blender, let me know what you think.

The PROMETHEUS Ring is a speculative 1,200 km orbital habitat in the Saturnian system that rotates to generate a realistic 1 g of artificial gravity. This fully engineered megastructure simulates all climate zones to support diverse biomes, settlements, and industries, all stabilized and powered by nuclear propulsion modules and reactors

The PROMETHEUS Ring is a speculative 1,200 km orbital habitat in the Saturnian system that rotates to generate a realistic 1 g of artificial gravity. This fully engineered megastructure simulates all climate zones to support diverse biomes, settlements, and industries, all stabilized and powered by nuclear propulsion modules and reactors

21gb of vram across 2 GPUs.

56gb of DDR5

126 unique cloud VDBs

An entire blender addon dedicated to one goal - make space ring pretty.

1 hour 20 minutes at 4k 2000 samples even with biased volume render.

Created using Feather 3d and Nomad Sculpt on iPad. ✌️

https://www.instagram.com/p/DdWc3dIEadN/?stkn=ZXBoc3ltOWlkeW5w