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Cool art that inspires a thousand words for an adventure

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1332097


or the look on your face after the evening scout Bar brawl (see also, meet your patron-contact, get a lead on a job, mission, cargo = adventure)..

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1331540

Or the end of a Striker Mission...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1330673

That look on your mysterious passenger's face as you lift off that leads to trouble..

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1330176

When you find that first contact means to "it/them", you're the next meal...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1331650

That simple courier job turns into something bigger than an easy 50Kcr drop off..

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1328230

Sometimes you beat the deadlines, and the buyer is late..

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1329684

But no matter what, your Crew member(s) got your back.
 
Liam put up some good links to Renderosity images. Here are 3 more artists there who have some very nice SF images in their galleries on the same site. Many of these make great Traveller illustrations and story starting points. Check out:

Markal
Zaberc
Rochr
 
Is there any Traveller art that shows us what their civilisation looks like? I mean, we see a lot of their military hardware - battledress wearing marines, equipped with plasma guns - and their shipping, stuff like the Type S and Type A2 etc. But what about stuff like:

-clothes and fashion

-uniforms

-what their cities look like

-what their graffiti looks like

-what their entertainment/culture looks like (Remember Star Wars: ROTS? Anakin walks into some alien opera to talk to Palpatine. It looked like a gravitically suspended sphere of water that had an aquatic species swim through it while singing.)
 
Art in supplements like Vilani and Varg along with incidental art scattered throughout the Traveller's Digest gave you a pretty decent idea about Vilani fashion sense. Some of the sheets for various bits of kit included with the MT Ref's screen gave you a bit of an idea about what their aesthetic senses were like in clothing and equipment on a functional basis.

In one of the Traveller's Digests, there was a fairly long article on the Marines and their uniforms (at least as represented with the occupation force on Terra). It had some not bad pics and a lot of good description on different sorts of uniforms.

So the stuff is out there, but to some extent it takes a 'completist' to know where it is all buried. And of course, nobody is permitted to collect and e-publish any sort of compendium because that would violate the rights of the artists and possibly our gaming company friends.
 
Mostly the look of the OTU seems to be modelled after Space 1999, when they are not wearing Avengers style bondage equipment.**

Seriously though, it seems that there is no consist approach to Vilani fashion, look at Interstellar Wars, as a counterpoint to V&V.

I am sometimes, tempted to buy a book on Star Wars fashion but then I realize that would be far too limiting for Traveller.

But, I agree a sourcebook might be nice but sometimes it depends upon the models who dress up. For instance, I am a big fan of Blair Reynolds & the Keith kitties/Aslan but I am never likely to see another rendering of Aslan done that way.

So, I am forced to use my imagination, but thanks to things like Google image search***, I know that I am not alone.

**Come on people, how use could you describe the TNE RCES bodysuits?

***Giving me sites like these:
http://www.padawansguide.com/fashion_bq.shtml

http://www.chinese-starwars.com/roystarkiller/Roystarkiller/gallery/artsofsw/051118hkb/051118hkb.htm

http://forums.cosplay.com/archive/index.php/f-44-p-2.html
 
Originally posted by kafka47:
Mostly the look of the OTU seems to be modelled after Space 1999, when they are not wearing Avengers style bondage equipment.**

Seriously though,
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So, I am forced to use my imagination, but thanks to things like Google image search***, I know that I am not alone.

**Come on people, how use could you describe the TNE RCES bodysuits?
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Kafka47, you trying to say the RCES star Vikings had/ have/ has an S& M kink somewhere in the woodpile here? :eek:
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Liam, we all know that Traveller was based on the pulps. Whilst, the stories of that era were fairly tame by today's standard. Their covers were certainly eye candy for their audience.
 
Originally posted by Marvo:
Liam put up some good links to Renderosity images. Here are 3 more artists there who have some very nice SF images in their galleries on the same site. Many of these make great Traveller illustrations and story starting points. Check out:

Markal


Zaberc
Rochr
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Good eye marvo! :cool: I have those three marked under my favorites for terrain and futuristic cities. ;)

gents, ladies, membership to renderosity is free. Stofsk--there's an entire series gallery devoted to fashion, glamor, alternative, people, as well as Sci Fi for looking at graffiti, clothing possibilities, etc.

some leans towards the Farscape baroque to the SW robes and togas shtuff. Ya gotta cruise to peruse, and that takes time.

Just cause its listed under a genre doesn't mean you'll like it--trust me.

For 2-D art, try this link

http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/gallery.pl?genre=1

Plenty of amateur and pros' art here. The Sci Fi is a wide psread from Gamma world apocalyptic scenes & folk, to the 2001 Arthur C Clarke. Again, time to cruise & peruse is on you.

helpfully yours,
 
Originally posted by kafka47:
Liam, we all know that Traveller was based on the pulps. Whilst, the stories of that era were fairly tame by today's standard. Their covers were certainly eye candy for their audience.
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I know from discussions with Bryan Gibson the busty, cleavage look from pulp was downplayed and frowned on by GDW, and the art of said covers & interiors reflects that. Very "Peegee-13-ium" in my words (by todays standards)

I recall the pulp covers of yore, mighty tame compared to what out there now..yes indeedy. Certes we aren't demanding Bodice-ripper harelquin art with yet another fabio-clone clutching the damsel about to fall out of her gravity sewing-sensible defying garment (?)
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and yeah, the RCES "skin suits" were like "body condoms", till ya added on the vac boots and gloves.. Frankly, in the "star Vikings" NPC book I thought the Lancer team was better dressed for the Wilds..thats just me ;) But then--I've been in the "Wilds" of Iraq, and a few other 3rd world places..so my games get a dose of reality on the garment wear n tear too. ;)
 
Originally posted by Liam Devlin:
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Liam, we all know that Traveller was based on the pulps. Whilst, the stories of that era were fairly tame by today's standard. Their covers were certainly eye candy for their audience.
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I know from discussions with Bryan Gibson the busty, cleavage look from pulp was downplayed and frowned on by GDW, and the art of said covers & interiors reflects that. Very "Peegee-13-ium" in my words (by todays standards)</font>[/QUOTE]:mad:
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I recall the pulp covers of yore, mighty tame compared to what out there now..yes indeedy. Certes we aren't demanding Bodice-ripper harelquin art with yet another fabio-clone clutching the damsel about to fall out of her gravity sewing-sensible defying garment (?)
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We're not? ;)
 
Ok, I am cheating a bit. Here is a series of pictures from Star Crash...would want to see 2,3 to compare. Hope that it would have the same campiness.

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If you've actually *seen* Starcrash, you'll know that nothing made since then should EVER be remotely similar to it, for the good of humanity
. It's campy, but it's also atrocious (so bad it's actually good, but only for those with a strong constitution - I showed it to my friends here and it actually broke the guy who was usually a connoisseur of bad movies!)
 
One of his first films too. I think it's fair to say that he's the only one who actually acts in it too.

Christopher Plummer is also in it as the "Emperor of the Universe". I can only surmise that he was desperate for money at the time...! Either that or he couldn't pass up a role that had him say "Imperial Flagship! Stop the flow of time!".

The writing is awful though - it's all exposition and deus ex machina. And then there's the boarding torpedos that can somehow hit the plate glass windows (?!) in the bad guy's flagship (the thing that looks like a big hand, and yes, it clenches up in defensive mode). Note that they spend about 10-15 minutes recycling the same launch sequence in the film too. Not only that, but when they land, out pops two marines who are none the worse for wear from their journey (though they invariably die very shortly thereafter, since you can obviously only surprise an enemy once with these things!). But throughout the epic battle on the enemy flagship, all this is happening with everyone completely oblivious to the fact that all the windows into space have now been smashed and they're all exposed to vacuum!

It's just terrible, trust me. Hilarious if you can survive ye livelie awfuleness of it all, but it can just as easily send you into the depths of rage and despair
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