"The tip led me to Burrago Street and sure as shit, he was there. Peddling egg flower soup from a street cart, Mario Montejo looked like just another average Joe trying to make a buck. But he had a secret - he was a rogue unit marked for retirement. Having eluded the squad for nearly a year now, you could say he was good… that or he knew he had something to lose. Between tired passes of the windshield wipers I eyed him like a hawk as I got ever closer. He was mine. Stopping not six feet away, I lit him up as I jumped out, service weapon in hand, but he had just as quickly ducked into the crowd. I was ready to play chase, but there was no one there. Like a ghost, he was gone before my boots hit the street. Mario Montejo had once again slipped into the shadows only to continue living a life long expired."

At one point in time I had experimented with doing some Blade Runner fanfic by way of an illustrated children's book type format and the little excerpt above is from some of the mediocre writing I had done on it. The story was placed just a few years after the replicant uprising and centered around a female Blade Runner. This particular image was partially inspired by that storyline and a general love for the future noir world portrayed in the film.

This scene was built and rendered in Vue 6 Infinite at 6000 x 3375 and postworked in Photoshop CS4. Architecture is by Team Dystopia at DAZ, lighted signs are from my Urban Jungle collection at Cornucopia3D. Lady Blade Runner is played by GND4 and the killer Spinner model is a freebie by Treybor at Foundation3D. Incidentally I was never able to get the mapping to work right on the Spinner model, so I rendered it in solid colors and added the decals and weathering/wear in post as was most of the interior detail. That said, I've taken plenty of artistic license with the Spinner in both appearance and function, but that's the beauty of shooting from the hip… you get to make it up as you go Thanks for looking!