Mark Hennessy-Barrett

I aten’t dead

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:52:33 +0000

I’ve just been reeeaallly really really rilly rilly stupidly madbusy since February.

And no, the Honorverse game isn’t dead. It’s having a wee breathe while it’s core wossnames are encodulated and such.

Congratulations, Rutan and Branson!

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:22:24 +0000

Partially to celebrate the roll-out of VSS Enterprise, the first SpaceShipTwo class manned spacecraft, I’ve bunged up a mini gallery page with all the SpaceShipTwo/ VSS Enterprise /WhiteKnightTwo stuff.

It is here.

Enjoy.

All done but the 14400×13000 render.

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:55:12 +0000

In which I commit sci-fi comedy

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:03:46 +0000

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I give you Bojemoi Boris’ Bargain Basement Boosters.

More Honorverse WIP

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:28:34 +0000

FPrime 3.5 64-Bit + Hypervoxels = Painting With Fireballs.

It’s not always about the polygons.

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:37:42 +0000

Fair warning, there’s one F-bomb and a gout of blood in this clip. Also, alcohol abuse and arrant silliness. The clip is therefore beneath the fold.

I did warn you. An afternoon’s guerilla film-making. Yay.

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Work in Progress: Earth Defence Directorate Starfighter.

admin — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:43:47 +0000

I found a toy Buck Rogers Starfighter in my local old-comics-and-toys shop a while back. This was a gimme at £15 (even if the pop-out wings don’t really anymore and the little plastic missiles were missing), so I’ve been bashing on giving the old girl a bit of a BSG-style makeover. There’s probably about six to eight hours of “kept” modelling in this so far. I haven’t really kept track of “chucked” modelling, but it’s probably only about 2 hours so far.

For those history buffs amongst us, this was actually Ralph McQuarry’s original design for the Colonial Viper in the 1970s Battlestar Galactica. So, in keeping with this more crunchy, gritty day and age, I imagine I’ll be punching reaction-control thruster exhausts into the pylons before too long. Hum. I think this thing’s Ficton Reactor must use a McQuarry Converter. Yeah, that sounds about right.

Gotta keep it real, right?

Art Part Deux

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:39:25 +0000

Me make pretty.

That should do it. And I got some animated logo work signed off today, too. Yay!

Getting a bit arty.

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:56:32 +0000

An old mate of mine wrote a cracking novel about a chap who won the Nobel Literature prize when he was very young, and then didn’t write for ages. Shockingly for a book containing no guns, spaceships, aliens or even an anomaly, I really enjoyed it and promptly volunteered to do a cover.

This is where I am with it at the moment.