GENERATION SHIP

Its a concept that has been around a long looooong time. Colonizing another planet is the next step in space exploration, but not the moon, or mars, or some dinky asteroid, another earth is the prize target. So what do we do IF we find one? We go! but how? we don't have faster than light travel. So we build a ship to take a bunch of people that would live and die on the ship and in a few generations their descendants land on and colonize the planet. It science reality not Sci-fi and its happening now. 100YSS ( 100 year star ship ) is an organization dedicated to the research development and inevitably the making of a ship that will carry people 100 years away in space to a new earth. AWESOME. heres my concept for a GENSHIP. propelled by nuclear propulsion ( we have plenty on the planet:why not use 'em) to go .1 the speed of light. Make a 10 LYR journey in 100 yrs. its mankinds destiny. get on board. MANDREWS OUT

KUTOMSPAR 2

Did some more futzing around on the ol' Kutomspar. its taking shape. MANDREWS OUT!

KUTOMSPAR

Thats the name of this ship. In a moment of genius dyslexia I had come up with a total original name. Someone had asked where we were going and I replied "to Toms car." but it came out...."Ku-toms-par" Some friends and I were playing a sci-fi roll playing adventure and the name stuck for the name of our ship. So I thought I'd try and build it in sketch up. MANDREWS OUT

ATTACK SHIP

not that I have tons of idle time on my hands but I do have some time, so I can fill it reading, or drawing, or surfing the web, or..... MODELING FUN BITCHEN' SPACESHIPS. But to dream up my own designs.... hard. So I found this awesome ship by Pierre-Etienne Travers, on concept ships http://conceptships.blogspot.com/ ( an awesome website by the way) and built it best I could. Yeah yeah no shaders and lots of detail missing, I'm not great by any means, but it is meditative and soothing to model. I love the physical puzzle of building. So thank you mr. Travers fantastic ship. MANDREWS OUT

ASSAULT SHIP

Heres another take. Slight modification from previous craft. MANDREWS OUT

FRESH OFF THE FACTORY FLOOR

Yup, knocked this out in a couple of hours. thought I'd share. some kind of drop ship or something. MANDREWS OUT

What can I say....

Its been TOOOOOOOOO long. But I'm back and can hopefully share more what I am working on outside of my real job. I have discovered the best thing in the world- sketch up by Google. Its an awesome little 3d modeling program and, Its free!!!! I've been doing tons of stuff with it. Even redesigned my kitchen and built a guest house using it. But here are some more fun things I've been doing with it. enjoy MANDREWS OUT

Journey to BARSOOM

Now the John Carter (of MARS) is out on the big screen I think its time to finally show what I have been doing. Besides being the Co writer Second unit director on the movie I got to help visually develop the project from the beginning. So here are some of my first concepts for the THARKS.

Andrew Stanton and I had always seen them as native like, masai, aboriginal-esque warriors. Tall, sinuey, no body fat, elegant. I incorporated armor, since they were warriors, they would have some protection. It would be more ornamental like (yet functional) made out of metal scavenged from the wastes of Barsoom. I even gave them shields to be used as portable Pavise to provide cover while shooting their long rifles.

In the end we settled for Tharks that were more primitive. But thats what VIZ DEV is. exploring the possibilities. and its always a fun Journey.

MANDREWS










And this..... was my first idea for a Thern. Crazy! But being that we made them Shapeshifters ( ala their technology ) who knows what the really look like. I guess we'll need a second movie to find out. Man we had big plans for the continuing tales of Carter on Barsoom. But who knows.....

Just Drawing

Its been a while, sorry. But now that my current obligations are winding down I may actually have more time to post stuff. So here its is. Just a little something I'm exploring. Yes its massive. A giant walking flaming demon castle thing. Like a medieval transformer..... but BETTER!

MANDREWS OUT