Any Babylon 5 fans in the house.

[Triple F]

I realise this will come off as a bit spammy, especially for a first post. But if your a sci-fi fan, budding artists, 3D modeller and especially a B5 fan, your going to like this. ; )

After contacting Ron Thornton, to find out who designed one of the ships on Babylon 5, one thing led to another, and a quick exercise in learning how to code up a web page turned into a unique reference site 5 years, 15 FX artists and one producer later.

The site isn’t going to stay up forever, It was just a hobby, a one off, so I made it downloadable for anyone to keep – no strings, popups, adverts or anything else attached. Just a lot of production concept art along with some pretty frank, revealing, wide ranging and occasionally funny interviews from FX artists who worked on B5 . . . . . . . a few Star Treks, Firefly, the new BSG and a couple of Stargates.

It’s a fan site, sorta, that focuses more on the artists, the art and the technology. Steve Burg (who recently designed the Prometheus for the Ridley Scott movie) described what we talked about as the most in-depth examination of his methodology and approach to design ever carried out. Which, considering Steve’s career, came as a bit of a surprise.

This is a link to a facebook page set up last year to let folks know about it, before the site is taken down..

http://www.facebook.com/B5Scrolls

It is genuinely legit, as is the offer for anyone to download and keep it, (nearly 50,000 already have), 3DWorld ran a short piece on it last year

http://www.3dworldmag.com/2012/06/27/the-vfx-of-babylon-5-artist-interviews-and-artwork/

If anyone’s interested, and ain’t on facebook, here’s a link to the website itself.

http://www.themadgoner.com/B5/B5Scrolls/B5Scrolls.htm

Basically, with the download, I’m just making sure all that work – and the information the site contains which can’t be found anywhere else – doesn’t just disappear like a fart in the wind when it’s inevitably taken down.

Cheers

[Triple F]

@ the admins. Cheers. ; )