Wrath of khan wallpaper
Luckily, my pal Daren, who was lending his critical eye to the image, spotted the gaff in time for me to correct it before the magazine went to press. Give up? It’s the phasers! Phaser weapons didn’t work in the Mutara nebula, so the ships had to use photon torpedoes during the battle. Have you noticed the nerd alert mistake in the picture? Go on, have a closer look… there is a really obvious boo-boo in this image, and if you haven’t figured it out yet you’re going to hit yourself on the head and shout “duh!” when I tell you. The second concept (below) are two variations on the “cat and mouse” section of the film.Īs much as I liked the less obvious “artsy fartsy” cat-and-mouse renders, the publishers went for the more dynamic, eye-catching battle concept (as seen in the original mock-up on right). Also note the extra space left on top for the Magazine title.
The image on the right is more traditional, while the left side sports a more dynamic pose for the Enterprise (this is the same model that was seen in the Director’s Edition DVD of Star Trek: The Motion Picture). The first was a combat shot, loosely based on a scene from the film. For this one I had two basic concepts and offered the editors a variation on each. The second cover was for the special Wrath of Khan issue, published in September 2002.
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As always, feel free to click for the full-size picture or right click to download and save: The Magazine was obviously a vertically oriented render, but for you, dear reader, I have recomposited the original elements into a horizontal, more widescreen monitor-friendly image (below). They liked the image pretty much as-is (only the background nebula was changed) so off I went to create a 3k render. The first step was for me to create a rough draft of the image I had in mind it was then sent to the editors who had their art department do a mock-up of the cover to see how it worked and where the cover graphics would interfere with the image.
If you haven’t already figured it out by now, this first one was for the Next Generation Season One special issue, published in April 2002. Knowing how bad I am with technology, it’s entirely possible that I put the CD in my drive and accidentally uploaded them to my blog, where anyone can download and enjoy them… Sadly, this slickly-produced, lovingly written periodical folded in 2003, but as I was digging through my archives (in other words, as I was finally looking to see what was on a bunch of old CD-ROMS entitled “label me”), I ran across the original, hi-res renders created for the publication. A fistfull of years ago, I did a few covers for Star Trek: The Magazine.