New thought about the course of Traveller

[Blue Ghost]

Heh. Winchell himself said (when he was re-doing the Annic Nova, just recently) that he wished he had the skills back then that he has today.

And mused about how his artwork might look now, if he had had those skills back then, plus the extra 30 years since...

(I hope you've all seen his updated Annic Nova, and been suitably blown away!) Here:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/nyrath/sets/72157626769746781/

I love guys that can look back at themselves and say "Wow, I've improved", and really have legitimately increased their skill level.

 

[tim_manley]

His new work is awesome!

 

[Chuck Anumia]

Looks great

I wonder what the art work will look like coming out in another 30 years or so?

 

[Supplement Four]

I wonder what the art work will look like coming out in another 30 years or so?

You'll look at it "live", walk around in it, explore it.

 

[tim_manley]

You'll look at it "live", walk around in it, explore it.

You can pretty much do that now -- not by default, but with the right tools you're there.

 

[DonM]

Sent to Marc. There was a recent discussion of revisiting Annic Nova now that T5 can actually design the ship, and since there's this beautiful artwork begging to be used...

 

[Blue Ghost]

Does anyone want more official background material? New races? New empires? What kind of stuff?

 

[Chuck Anumia]

I wonder what the art work will look like coming out in another 30 years or so?

You'll look at it "live", walk around in it, explore it.

I am unsure if that will be correct but it is a great thought.
AND
(I still am waiting for my George Jetson flying car)

 

[Vladika]

I am unsure if that will be correct but it is a great thought.
AND
(I still am waiting for my George Jetson flying car)

We do have the wrist communicators though.

 

[Vargas]

Does anyone want more official background material? New races? New empires? What kind of stuff?

Sometimes I think the last thing Traveller needs is more official background . . .

 

[Blue Ghost]

Ouch. Touche'.

 

[nyrath]

Heh. Winchell himself said (when he was re-doing the Annic Nova, just recently) that he wished he had the skills back then that he has today.

And mused about how his artwork might look now, if he had had those skills back then, plus the extra 30 years since...

(I hope you've all seen his updated Annic Nova, and been suitably blown away!) Here:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/nyrath/sets/72157626769746781/

Why, thank you, sir!
Though I still don't think I can hold a candle to Rob Caswell, Tom Peters, William Keith, and the other Traveller grand master artists.

 

[nyrath]

His new work is awesome!

Thanks!
I have been puttering around with other Traveller related art, some of which I've put in the CotI gallery.
More here:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/nyrath/sets/72157641413203725/

And wouldn't it have been nice to have some of this computer generated art in the classic Traveller books?

 

[Garyius2003]

I always liked the dark quality of the Annic Nova drawings, as crude as they were. If you do more, is there a way to make them darker? Maybe behind a moon or in a far outer system?

The other stuff is really good, too.

 

[rancke]

(I hope you've all seen his updated Annic Nova, and been suitably blown away!) Here:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/nyrath/sets/72157626769746781/

Um... I thought the original picture of the Annic Nova was upside down?


Hans

 

[mike wightman]

Any chance of a variant with four smallcraft pylons in an X shape?

 

[nyrath]

Um... I thought the original picture of the Annic Nova was upside down?

Yes it was.
But the upside down version has been shown again and again, so it has become canon. If I tried flipping it over everybody would yell at me.

 

[nyrath]

Any chance of a variant with four smallcraft pylons in an X shape?

Tricky, and not exactly canon. They would get in the way of the four small probe drones.
Is this for some homebrew variant?

 

[savage]

Tricky, and not exactly canon. They would get in the way of the four small probe drones.
Is this for some homebrew variant?

I like that idea leave the view. But a second version with 4 small craft in an X with perhaps a "scientific module" below to compete with the survey ship as a 1000dt version. Adds another nice adventure to the canon.

 

[rancke]

Yes it was.

But the upside down version has been shown again and again, so it has become canon. If I tried flipping it over everybody would yell at me.

I wouldn't. I would applaud you.

And I disagree that the upside down version has become canon. Not unless and until the deckplans have been flipped upside down too. If the deckplans remain right side up, the old picture remains upside down.


Hans