Your Red Dwarf Art

[Moonlight]

IF YOU’RE READING THIS, CAPPSY HASN’T FIXED THE POST YET TO LET THE VIDEOS THROUGH. EITHER THAT OR HE FORGOT TO ERASE THIS TEXT. IF I’M HONEST, I THINK HE JUST FORGOT.

Thought it’d be a good idea to make a thread devoted to creative projects themed around the show. I’ll start with a video I tweeted not long after TPL that Doug himself gave a like (fuck you, I win G&T) where I tried to replicate the grayscale effect as originally envisioned. 

Then we have an incredibly stupid parody of Remastered from a couple years back:

And finally for now, a CG Starbug fly-by I put together a decade ago (not my model):

I’m not crazy about the lens flares but I got the lighting pretty good in a way I’ve never since been able to replicate.

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[Paul Muller]

That’s cool! Always wondered about that sticky out leg bit at the back, but totally makes sense as a scoop/tether thing.

Here’s one I put together for the newer design, but just focused on propulsion system.

[Frank Smeghammer]

I have a great liking for the word “ramscoop”. I don’t know why, it just sounds fun to say.

So definitely label up the ramscoop

[Technopeasant]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

That’s cool! Always wondered about that sticky out leg bit at the back, but totally makes sense as a scoop/tether thing.
Here’s one I put together for the newer design, but just focused on propulsion system.

It’s this docking clamp isn’t it?

[Dave]

That’s what I assumed.

[Moonlight]

I feel like there is no point in the show beyond IV where they wouldn’t just wander into the DNA ship on Starbug.

[gerrydelasel]

It’s this docking clamp isn’t it?

Assuming the DNA ship is ‘normal sized’, that thing we see in the clip would be a tiny blip on the outline of Red Dwarf. I figure the huge arm is for clamping and drilling into asteroids, it makes sense to me that that is how Red Dwarf actually does its mining, since it doesn’t look suitably designed to actually land on the surface of any planet.

Here’s one I put together for the newer design, but just focused on propulsion system.

Very cool! I wish I could do 3D like that. I guess that’s why the crew sing “Red Dwarf? Heck! It’s more engine than deck!”

I have a great liking for the word “ramscoop”.

You’re right, I totally forgot that’s what it is called!

Can anyone remember references to large interior spaces/equipment other than ‘the diesel decks”? I remember the observation dome but that’s tiny.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

> it makes sense to me that that is how Red Dwarf actually does its mining, since it doesn’t look suitably designed to actually land on the surface of any planet.

Red Dwarf isn’t designed to land or anything.  I think the intention is that the miners go down to planets/moons/asteroids to mine, and then bring the rock back. That’s how it’s described in the books, that’s what things like Blue Midget and Starbug are for. 

[Dave]

Or in the case of VIII-era pencil-Dwarf, it has asteroid bays for them to mine.

[gerrydelasel]

I’m more or less satisfied

[Dave]

“Unplanned modification” is good.

[Professor Flibble]

Couple of years ago, I had a go at doing some alternative DVD covers with series-accurate fonts and logos. Tried to keep as close as possible to the DVDs’ colour choices with the space backgrounds, and wanted to put all the cast on the cover rather than just Rimmer and Lister. Here’s Series IV.

[Professor Flibble]

Series V. If I did them now, I’d probably put Red Dwarf, Starbug etc in the background. 

[Professor Flibble]

Series VI. Merging the bannister from the Gunmen photo with the space background was probably the trickiest thing to do here.

[Professor Flibble]

Series VII. Times New Roman. Ugh. Never ended up making any more. I mean they’re not particularly impressive and I’d probably do them differently now.

[Moonlight]

I like these but the Series IV/V/VI text is visibly off-center and it’s giving me a brain aneurysm.

[Unrumble]

Don’t recall seeing this one before. The huggy, chumminess is quite weird and out of character, like Chris is attempting to look. Rimmer-y, and the rest are just the actors posing for a photo while happening to be in costume.

[Dave]

I quite like those, all very plausible.

[Professor Flibble]

I like these but the Series IV/V/VI text is visibly off-center and it’s giving me a brain aneurysm.

Just noticed that. 

[Professor Flibble]

Don’t recall seeing this one before. The huggy, chumminess is quite weird and out of character, like Chris is attempting to look. Rimmer-y, and the rest are just the actors posing for a photo while happening to be in costume.

Yeah, it’s not the best. Considered using the one in the cockpit but I didn’t because of Rimmer’s red outfit and Kochanski’s blue uniform.

[Warbodog]

Don’t recall seeing this one before. The huggy, chumminess is quite weird and out of character, like Chris is attempting to look. Rimmer-y, and the rest are just the actors posing for a photo while happening to be in costume.

I cut out a very small version of that photo (from a TV magazine? Sci-fi merchandise brochure?) and stuck it on the spine of my Series VIII off-airs VHS in 1999 to annoy Moonlight in the future.

[Professor Flibble]

I quite like those, all very plausible.

Cheers! Honestly, I’m way too nostalgic for the original DVD releases to think the covers really need replacing, but these are a sort of “what if 2 Entertain starred releasing Red Dwarf on DVD just a couple years later?” 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Don’t recall seeing this one before. The huggy, chumminess is quite weird and out of character, like Chris is attempting to look. Rimmer-y, and the rest are just the actors posing for a photo while happening to be in costume.

I cut out a very small version of that photo (from a TV magazine? Sci-fi merchandise brochure?) and stuck it on the spine of my Series VIII off-airs VHS in 1999 to annoy Moonlight in the future.

I suspect its a promo shot for Red Dwarf night

[Professor Flibble]

[Professor Flibble]

Yeah, I see what Moonlight means. The app I use doesn’t have one of those features when you move photos around and you can centre align them, and I think the certifica…

Oh. Ah. Shit. Just realised I got the certificates wrong, too! Was just a bit of fun, tbh.

[Warbodog]

Professor Flibble can stay.

There was so much focus on AI Lister, I forgot all about Kochanski and the rest.

[Professor Flibble]

Professor Flibble can stay.

There was so much focus on AI Lister, I forgot all about Kochanski and the rest.

Isn’t it just one of the Dave era posters now? I haven’t checked in a while.

[Podey]

Don’t recall seeing this one before. The huggy, chumminess is quite weird and out of character, like Chris is attempting to look. Rimmer-y, and the rest are just the actors posing for a photo while happening to be in costume.

I believe it’s a “cast” photo rather than in-character as I had a postcard of it with all of their autographs printed on.

Any idea where I would have gotten this from?! It would have been around the time VII aired. I presume maybe the fan club but not sure?

[Dave]

Professor Flibble can stay.

Yeah this is superb.

[clem]

I believe it’s a “cast” photo rather than in-character as I had a postcard of it with all of their autographs printed on.

Any idea where I would have gotten this from?! It would have been around the time VII aired. I presume maybe the fan club but not sure?

I had that too. You might be right about the fan club, or maybe it came with one of the calendars? Anybody else have a mini cardboard cutout standee thing of Rimmer in his Enlightenment uniform? Pretty sure that came with a calendar one year.

[Podey]

My money is on it being sent out from the fan club. I thought maybe there was an outside chance of it being via Radio Times because I had written to them requesting the autograph of a cover star before and been sent a printed one but clem also having had it makes that less likely, I think.  

Whilst we’re on the subject of weird promo shots, I’ve always been confused by this series VII one featuring Rimmer wearing his red uniform, which he doesn’t wear that series.

[Technopeasant]

Well, just shift the RGB values and you’re golden.

[Professor Flibble]

My money is on it being sent out from the fan club. I thought maybe there was an outside chance of it being via Radio Times because I had written to them requesting the autograph of a cover star before and been sent a printed one but clem also having had it makes that less likely, I think.  
Whilst we’re on the subject of weird promo shots, I’ve always been confused by this series VII one featuring Rimmer wearing his red uniform, which he doesn’t wear that series.

Yeah, that’s the one I was talking about earlier. I mean, I suppose I could’ve recoloured it. Kochanski wearing her flashback uniform is a bit odd, too.

[Professor Flibble]

Not perfect, but gave it a shot.

[Technopeasant]

When did they pick up an air hostess? Etc, etc, etc…

Rimmer’s head looks oddly large but that wasn’t your doing.

[clem]

Does Cat wear that outfit in any episode?

[Professor Flibble]

Does Cat wear that outfit in any episode?

I’m fairly sure he wears it in Tikka to Ride.

[Professor Flibble]

Yeah, Tikka to Ride. Doesn’t appear to wear it in any other episode.

[Podey]

Not perfect, but gave it a shot.

Good job! 

I should note that it’s not the inconsistency that bothers me, though, it’s wondering WHY he had to wear the costume that doesn’t appear that series, like what were the real-life circumstances of the blue version presumably not being available. 

[Podey]

Oh god. I think I’ve just figured it out.

Chloe isn’t wearing her standard red. Is it because they didn’t want two characters wearing blue?! 

[Unrumble]

I believe it’s a “cast” photo rather than in-character as I had a postcard of it with all of their autographs printed on.

Sure, that’s what I meant to imply. My point was more that it would’ve been quite incongruous had it been used on an actual DVD/video, probably didn’t word it quite right 

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