I have to agree about the 'look' of Traveller that several people have mentioned in this thread. The original LBB and Travellers Aid were very limited in terms of artwork. Megatraveller did not improve things much either. TNE followed MT with some very similar stuff. There was a good opportunity with T4, when they had Chris Foss, but it looks like they payed him milk bottle tops or something. Most of the artwork is pretty poor and looks rushed and unfinished. The full color pages are just eye candy and reproductions of old Chris Foss pictures that I have seen before. They are just stuck there and none of them are really Traveller related. T4 also seems to conflict with the artwork of all the other versions. GURPS has some better artwork, but it looks very much like a lot of other GURPS books. The exceptions being the 3D renderings by Jesse DeGraff. T20 is okay, but nothing to write home about.
I think the only thing that has stayed consistant has been the artwork for the standard ships. (Except for T4, which went off on a weird tangent and redesigned most of them.)
An art submission program would be cool, but to avoid the mistakes of the past I think a consensus of the 'look' would be a good idea. Personally I think you can have several art styles in one book if the editing is well done. Total inconsistancies need to be weeded out. For the space pics, I would like to see CG renderings because I think they look the best.
It would be really nice if there were a set of 3D models out there that everyone could use, but creating them is no simple feat. I have just started trying to do some 3d modelling myself and it's really time consuming. There are a load of free 3d meshes for Star Wars and Star Trek, but I have never found any Traveller related ones. Does anyone know of any?
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I edited this post after realising I had the artwork of TNE and T4 mixed up.
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Personally, the 'new' designs/illustrations of some of the standard ship designs totally put me off this version of Traveller.
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