@valkyrie013: Hahaha, thanks! @Jedman67: Thank you! @Matthew Raymond: I think Clone Wars wasn't cel shaded, just non realistic. Rebels and the new Resistance SW shows are cel shaded though, as were the 3D backgrounds for Paperman. Character animation has always interested me, but I simply don't have the hardware for it, nor the time to learn how to do it properly. Here are the finished renders for the Galaxy transporter room!
@Rekkert, That's basically the best transporter room I've ever seen. If you can figure out how to make an action figure play set out of this and get a license to sell it, you'll be rich. Resistance is annoyingly cel shaded (which is probably why I haven't watched it yet), but I'm pretty sure The Clone Wars and Rebels have near-identical art styles. The backgrounds in Paperman on most shot are too soft focus or blown out to tell, but you may be right about the cel shading.The textures in screenshots look deliberately simplistic and hand-drawn, which makes it hard to tell. Of course, it's the foreground elements that interest me, and I think that was the intent of the filmmakers anyways. Of course, there are filters that can make things look hand-drawn after the fact. Perhaps an idea would be to render the background, apply a filter, then composite the 2D-ish characters on top. Avoid trying to figure out the styling and leave it up to the compositor.
Where is his chair? I mean, lets say that there's atleast 1 transporter room that is continually manned, because, you never know when an emergency would come up, even on a long haul between systems.. Only so many diagnostics one can do, I mean.. Give the guy/girl a small office thats connected to it.. and have the computer display some solitaire.. Looks excellent sir!
@Matthew Raymond: Oh, how I wish I could get a license to do, well, anything, with these... I agree that Resistance is very... bold in its graphic style, I quite dislike it as it seems rushed haha. Yes, it's quite easy in Blender to change the shading around, but as with everything that would only be part of it... Mmm, I might have a play with all that this coming weekend... @ashefivekay: Thank you @valkyrie013: Hahaha, you know what? I'm kinda constrained because of what we saw in canon, but for the Potemkin I was thinking of doing exactly that, a more enclosed console with a chair for the poor chief who has to be there 8 hours straight. Okey, the new green paint dried up...
You can take whatever liberties you want; just make it look good. Maybe the transporter operator has a holographic chair that disappears anytime someone comes into the room?
Guh, I'd love to be in a spot to play with the colors of those sets. What about a tweak to have nemesis colors? On CW/Rebels/Resistance, seemed to me the Clone Wars series and Rebels had the same rendering style, but different models (ie model geometry and textures were different). Resistance is clearly cell-shaded... which I agree is a bit offputting.
The next Star Wars animated series is going to use the original Doom engine for rendering. You'll know if a character is dead because their sprite will look the same from all angles.
I'm returning to the last of this batch of Galaxy commissions, the 2376 version of the bridge. I've modified the colors somewhat, and upgraded the LCARS to the latest software version available. Spoiler: Images
Being the Galaxy, this is an interesting image. She was constructed before TNG (one of the reasons I like that grey scheme- evocative of late TMP), and here she is around the time of Nemesis. A nice visual cue that her lifespan eclipses 1701-D in both directions. Wow.
A perfect take on a modified Galaxy class bridge. I love the Galaxy class, so thanks for sharing your work.
This is what the Galaxy looks like 2376-wise on the outside. She's been upgraded with many bells and whistles, some of them experimental. Among them are Type XII-HEF (High Energy Focus) phaser arrays, ablative armor, regenerative shielding, and the stardrive section in Separated Flight Mode has four Class II rapid-fire phaser pulse cannons.
Sweet! lots of blue! Brings up a question.. when does the maid service come and clean the bridge?? or is there a roomba that pops out of its cubby and does the carpets?? ... ..
In "The Sound of the Shiant," one of my "Galaxy Chronicles" fanfiction, the first officer/science officer uses a device that is roughly a 24th century vacuum cleaner that uses micro tractor beam technology to gather bio-polymer samples from a wrecked starship, a device I came up with.