Evolution of a globe

Just a couple of changes to the last file… 

Some color changes - moved the arrow for the rotational direction to the map texture

Just a couple of changes to the last file… Some minor edits for color and arrows – and approved by author. I know this is not very exciting stuff – but I enjoy the science illustration enormously. And the book work pays the bills.  The illustration was done with a combination of Adobe Illustrator (CS5 – arrows, text and geographic details), Photoshop for the earth and final art tweaks and all of this was modeled in Luxology, Modo 501 – using stencils for all of the overlays and models of the big Hadley Cell arrows – and rendered in Modo at 3500 Pixels resolution – took about 20 seconds to render final art.

Ok – Time to start this thing up

Ok, I’ve been neglecting this blog for too long.  So here is my first new post.

We’ve just moved to Rockland, Maine and I have started working on a new book project for McGraw-Hill on geography. I’ll be posting some things in here showing progress and hope to keep this regularly updated’ if not – please feel free to chastise me as much as humanly possible!

This first piece I’m posting is a graphic/sketch for tropical atmospheric circulation – an early version. So let me get this up and I’ll post more things in the days ahead. Thanks for sticking with this!

A 3D sketch