The Orion Tide
The cryo-sleeper cruise ship SS Orion Tide
Designed for one of those video projects that we sci fi fans are always starting and never finishing because life gets in the way, the Orion Tide is a colony sleeper ship, designed to transport 1,000 pilgrims in frozen slumber to a brave new world. Not that it will be that simple in the film...
The advertisement in "Spacer Times" tempts the poor weary Earther to seek adventure, peace, and new horizons...
They leave from White Star Lines' newest interstellar spaceport...
...a giant bustling hub (with only one ship docked!? Hey, rendering time ain't cheap)...
But the ship disappears into the void. And weeks later, some military patrol boats find her derelict, the crew and passenegers dead, the cargo pods all burst...
And then ... and then ... we didn't finish!
All modelling and rendering done in Caligari Truespace. Textures created in Corel Photopaint. Advertisement done in CorelDRAW!
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