ABSTRACT
Final Approach was created for fun and also for a graphic promo. The main aim for the project was to create an Earth-like colony on a desolate, desert planet. I had seen various Sci-Fi worlds and colony concepts in films, games and artwork and decided to do mine a little differently. It needed to have lots of buildings, a desert-based surface and a dusty atmosphere. After playing with various strata terrains in Vue I set out to make a realistic-looking environment that could be used
for an animation as well. I had modelled many assets and was armed with a variety of colony bases and ships that could be used in the scene. Final Approach was set in the CDF (Colonial Defence Force) universe and this piece featured the Sirrus 3 Colony. The artwork was developed as a promotion of the CDF fleet and website which features the wiki about the CDF universe.
