Sci-Fi Book Cover and Trailer

Wow, I haven’t posted anything here in ages. Howdy, BlenderArtists!

I just thought I’d post up my latest project. It’s the cover art for a Creative Commons sci-fi novel I’m self-publishing next month, and Blender was used both to model and render the mushroom cloud featured in the image. The rest was accomplished with a combination of Photoshop.and Illustrator.

I also put together a book trailer in a mad rush Sunday night using Blender, and… well, I’ll admit that it’s not exactly the apex of animation as an art form. It’s basically the first animation I’ve produced, and that’s the excuse I’m sticking to. :slight_smile:

I was going to embed the Youtube video, but I can’t figure out how to do that. Instead, you can check it out at my Kickstarter project, which is what the trailer was produced for.

The Kickstarter project (a sort of fundraiser) is running right now, and one of the rewards I’m offering supporters is a collection of all of the source files, including the Blend files that were used to produce this cover, as well as the files for a few other cover designs which didn’t make the cut.

Anyway, thanks for taking a look. Cheers!
~Chris

That cover looks great nice job!

Thanks you! :slight_smile:

Thread viewed 3 times. Man, I must smell funny or something.

Thread views are broke…

Cover looks fabulous! Very pro!

Seriously? Oh, I feel like an ass. Started thinking I must have used some secret don’t-even-bother-to-look-at-this-thread codeword. :frowning:

Cover looks fabulous! Very pro!

Thank you! Very kind of you to say. :slight_smile:

Yeah “thread views” are always one more than the number of replies.
Anyway it’s a really nice book cover you got there:yes:

Wow, nice work! Nothing bad to comment.

Nice work, man

The brown-blue cover design is genius. It looks so much more than professional.

Doh! I feel dumb. :frowning:

Anyway, thanks for the kind words everyone! I really appreciate it.

The book is set to launch September 20th, so I’ll get to find out whether the ebook buying public digs it.

Wow, if I saw that sitting in a bookshelf/shop Id definitely have to pick it up and see what its about.

Nice work, love the colour range from top to bottom and the visuals are pretty stunning. You can tell right away that its Sci-Fi, mostly from the circuit looking bits, oh and the title, and the explosion… and the planet. :cool:

Heh… Thanks, AD-Edge. Makes me feel a lot better about the upcoming release. :slight_smile:

Just in case anyone’s interested, the book is now available! You can find it at any of the locations linked below:

All copies are Creative Commons licensed, BY-NC-SA. Please feel free to download, upload and generally share it. :slight_smile:

Thanks for looking!

Looks great, Chris! You’re site has given me a bit of brainstorming about my own publication project.