First Salvos

Thanks to mikebaird @ flickr for the cannon fire picture and Lileya at deviantart for the ship brushes.

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Better Than 1080i

Thanks fi_chince, Paul Maritz, mashleymorgan, and kotofoto. Basically this is an exercise in cut and paste, free transform (skew) and some shadow work.

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All Ahead Full Steam

Credit to: US Navy, CG Textures

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Misty Morning

FLICKR advance search for the two words misty morning. Credit goes to: OliBac,squacco, EssjayNZ, and carnagevisors

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Big Sky

credit to: ToastyKen, ian koss, Emjay -> MJ, D'Arcy Norman, Saguaro Pictures, dennis and aimee jonez

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Red Pen

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Halls of Eternity

Credit for space images: ESA/Hubble @ http://www.spacetelescope.org/copyright/

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Tubular Ball

3D S Max Mental Ray render.

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Oh What a Heavenly Light

Credit ESA/Hubble @ spacetelescope.org for the images from our universe. Thank you LadyVictoire @ deviantart for the planet brushes.

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Reflected In Glass and Chrome

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Fright at 30,000 feet

Credit to Barking Cats, buck82, and yuan2003 for the for sources. Two of these sources were mighty strange and caught my eye for their weirdness.

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The Fear

credit to It's Holly, tpmartins, Chiliberto, Lou Tamposi, williamaveryhudson, and mymy

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Rock

band is FOGHAT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQC3JxqtQmo The tutorials at these links were inspirational and helpful. 1. http://www.tutorial9.net/photoshop/design-a-realistic-3d-baseball-cap-in-photoshop/ 2. http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/drawing/design-a-shiny-bass-guitar-illustration...

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Rendezvous

Thank to NASA.gov for the images and models: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html

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Missle Intercept

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Red Dragonfly

Nothing but source and CS5.

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My Boats

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Interplanetary Bison Souvenir

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No More Tooth Ache

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Martian War Machines

Thanks to Wanner Cavagnolle, for the street scene.

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Blue Yonder Dead Reckoning

3D Max Mental Ray render. Thanks to : NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team, and artist 3d models library

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New Horizon

Mental Ray render.The tutorial @ http://www.polygonblog.com/3d-water-the-ocean was very inspirational and provides some good information about setting up to render water

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"The Great Gig In The Sky"

Richard William "Rick" Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008) Written by Richard Wright and Clare Tory "I never said I was afraid of dying." – Puddie Watts, wife of roadie Peter Watts

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Dogs Of War

"The Dogs Of War" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLbeAdpzy8Q&feature=related Dogs of war and men of hate With no cause, we don't discriminate Discovery is to be disowned Our currency is flesh and bone Hell opened up and put on sale Gather 'round and haggle For hard cash, we w...

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