Artist: Jay Thompson
These images were created by Jay Thompson, a self-taught 3D artist, for the flight simulator Air Warrior II from Kesmai. He used 3D Studio R4 to model the images, Photoshop for textures, and Lightscape for rendering. The planes are about 15k polys each. Thompson says he used photos that originally had planes in them for the backgrounds: "I had to do some serious cloning and fiddling to make the airplane that was in the shot go away. Since then, I've started using Bryce2 for backgrounds; I avoid both the [aforementioned] problem and am not limited in composition by an unchangeable viewpoint of a photo."