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The captains room Reliant - Starlancer. My pencil concept drawings: I like the cramped feel, like a submarine. Work in progress Images here: The space suit was done by Paul. This must be the instruction manual. Notice the same frame with different texture. Saved modelling and...

The intro for DarkLight conflict. NASA recently sent up a satellite that looked just like this, I must be able to see into the future (maybe not). Done in Alias.

I found some work in an old mail. I must have sent it home to finish the it during time off. This is more Starlancer stuff. The door and the communication pod. See the brown frame around the door, this is my repeatable piece that makes up the whole level. Used twenty times with different...

If you are looking to get into the industry, here is a taste of my experience. Getting jobs as Senior or Lead artist has been a hard task over the years. Finding the Job, doing the art test, getting the interview, visiting the studio and then getting the visa (while finding a place to live and...

This is the result of people visiting my blog after being on your Forum. This is great!

Hello LeHah, Thanks’ for your kind words! I must say I've been amazed with the response to this post. Yes, I did help to do the work on Starlancer. When I started at Warthog I had just left Psygnosis/Sony. My first job was to build the Reliant. Later I did the hanger and the captain’s...

OMG! I have the old ships!

Do you guys have the link to the Privateer 2 models? Jon and I want to take a look. BTW, just asked Jon Rashid to join the forum. Expect a note from him soon.

"Members of Wing Commander CIC!" Please feel free to join my LinkedIn page. http://uk.linkedin.com/in/michaelpcottam

Gosh, I can't remember a lot of the details. -Yes, Nick was on the team very early (also his brother Mark, he was dam good and still is, he was way ahead of his time), I know he was there because of this image: https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/File:dARKENIN.png this was taken in our second...

Having made thousands of ships for games myself, I admire your modelling skills and the detail in your work. Very tidy/even UV layouts! I wish we had the same available texture sizes back in my day. I will keep watching you post. Great to see, all the best. MPC

A few have mailed asking about my Africa trip mentioned on my LinkedIn site. I took a year out during 2010/11 to get away from computers for a while and see a little of the world. I drove around Africa in a truck with a few other travellers. If interested you can check this out on a iPad...

WOW! Now that is a complement. Cheers! For the life of me, I can't remember doing a landing shot, but the rest of the team did. I could be wrong I have a terrible memory, all the detail has mushed into one over the years. I did do quite a few still menu shots and backgrounds for the video...

You can see the 'Privateer II the Darkening' team on Paul Hughes site: http://www.pauliehughes.com/page19/page19.html Paul is amazing and it was wonderful to work with him year after year. I worked with Paul at EA/Origin and Warthog.

It's great to be here LeHah! I've been amazed at the response to my post! It's so wonderful to see that our games are still being played and enjoyed by 1000's. It's given me a new lease of life to make some more!

Hi Oggy, Thanks for your post! It was very sad that Republic Commando was not continued, just before and shortly after a lot of us lost our jobs. I was working on Mercenaries (Playground of Destruction) at the time and had to move to Vancouver to start the game that became Skate. You will...

Hi Zohrath, I'm not sure what happened to that model, it was great! I think it was Phil's. After moving to the larger Warthog building I left to work in America, so I've never seen it since. We had a big Warthog too. I've given SO many books and CD 's away to help as many people as possible...

Thank you! The in-game ships were designed by Nick and Phil long before I arrived. The earliest memory I have is a lot of (higher poly) rendered images on a wall, I don't remember clay models. The ships had to be made over and over again as we realised the limitations of the ram and CPU. My...

Hi Bandit, Thanks for the info!

Not sure who Ben is, if you can forward my contact I would be grateful. http://uk.linkedin.com/in/michaelpcottam