Any chance that you recorded your progress on that in some way, Vektor? I'm insanely curious as to your process in completing that. And I kinda want it as a print. Astounding work.
I don't want to bloat the thread by posting mass inline images, but here's a series of links for all the WIPs leading up to the final: WIP01 WIP02 WIP03 WIP04 WIP05 WIP06 WIP07 WIP08 WIP09 WIP10 WIP11 WIP12 As for prints, I painted this one at 18"x24" at 300dpi so that is entirely possible. I may, indeed, be offering this one for sale in the near future.
Vektor, that's wonderful, thank you. Did you start with any construction lines, or does WIP01 show you laying down large, sloppy masses that you gradually refined and sharpened? It was also neat to see you changing details along the way.
I normally do construction lines but for this one I just started blocking in values and colors. I've been trying to expand my repertoire of techniques.
Thanks, very much appreciated. I'm really about finished with them all. I will eventually post them at my site and probably do a Trekcore article as well.
I drew this up over the last few days, trying to capture our pets' personalities. Left to right is Sneezy (recently known as Grumpy Cat), Squeeky (who's quite skittish), Phantom (troublemaker), Banshee (Diaper Kitty!), and Zoe (fat & lazy, but very sweet).
A Hangar Deck to fit in my CGI TOS Enterprise (947'). Some WIP renders. Put me in the "it's not a control room" camp. It's the long-range aft sensor, and the lower part of its cowling splits with the doors to make more room for entering shuttles: Here's the interior of the Starboard Gallery. It varies a bit from the series set (we saw the Port side Gallery in Conscience of the King), but this one actually fits into the hull. That's the engine pylon's structural bracing visible behind the screen: Finally, here's a perspective cutaway of the hangar in the hull: Still a Work in Progress. M.
A paper SS Botany Bay to go with my paper Enterprise. But I miscalculated and printed it too small! I printed another in the correct size but now I dont feel like assembling it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/53398307@N06/8682322516/
Bwuh..bwuh...duh...duh... And I thought the one available at the SketchUp Warehouse was detailed! That has got to be the ULTIMATE Satellite of Love digital model!!! You guys can have your Enterprise meshes; by hook or by crook I will find a way to obtain this data once Gep completes it!!! Sincerely, Bill
Nice! Can't imagine trying to do all those greebles. So, does it have a set of numbered doors on the inside?
Thanks. Not sure if you'd want it, though -- it's nearly 800,000 faces at the moment (if I don't mirror the details onto the hidden side – it shoots up to over 1.1 million if I do), and about 26 megs of data. Once I finish detailing and UV the sucker it's going to shoot through the roof. I can easily see this exceeding 100 megs by the time it's done. The upside to that approach is that you can push the camera right up to the hull and it holds up. The bad is, well, it's a huge model. It's not as hard as it looks. It's all kitbashing right now; I'm teaching myself modo and that software has a very cool feature where you can save meshes to a library and drag-and-drop them into a scene from a little pop-up palette. I saved out a few hundred kit pieces I either built myself or collected from various sources and have been using them to detail it. It's pretty fast. Nope. I'm not that crazy.
Just for fun. My soul has an inscrutable yearning to achieve Ultimate Nurnage, and so I wander ever further down the path of hyper-detailed spaceships. The Satellite seemed like as good a target as any.