NX Refit

[SCE2Aux]

I think this perception of size also depends on whether you grew up with the massive rigid airships pre-WW1...
Ships like the USS Macon were 239m in length so it would've been a heck of a sight to see back then.

I completely forgot about the era of airships! You're right, those things were monsters.

Honestly I always thought the NX class was still too big for Earth’s first true starship. While much shorter, she’s not far off the volume of the Constitution-class due to all those convex rounded shapes… in fact due to the NX nacelles being much smaller than the Constitution nacelles the NX actually has a larger habitable volume! And that’s before the secondary hull refit! The NX should have been much more cramped and submarine-like. Probably would have made the sets harder to film in though.

I tend to imagine that the catamarans were largely uninhabitable, and I definitely think of the secondary hull I created for this NX re-imagining as having a lot of machinery and storage taking up that extra volume. But it would be a fascinating idea having a show set on a ship as cramped as a pre-WW2 submarine, for example. Lots of psychological stresses to write about in a spacecraft like that! As you say, it would've been a real pain to film - every wall would have to be really easily removable.

 

[SCE2Aux]

Something I've been messing about with today - updating an old planet model of mine and combining it with a ship render.

The past week I've also been learning Davinci Resolve, because I really want this thing animated in a flypast shot.

 

[Santaman]

Oeh! That's a really wonderful render, love the old freighters.

 

[SCE2Aux]

Oeh! That's a really wonderful render, love the old freighters.

Thanks I thought I could juuuuust about get away with using them, time period-wise.

A few extra bits and bobs:

Diagrams of the textured model:

 

[publiusr]

I'd like to see these at scifi-meshes as well (my library still can't get trekbbs)

 

[Santaman]

Really nice, yeah said that a lot, I do mean it though.

 

[SCE2Aux]

Really nice, yeah said that a lot, I do mean it though.

Thanks Santaman!

I'd like to see these at scifi-meshes as well (my library still can't get trekbbs)

Huh, that's odd - are you unable to see the images on here?

A couple more images to post, whilst I work on the animation (I finally got around to actually trying my hand at it!)

 

[publiusr]

I can see them on phones--the library won't even go to the bbs

 

[HotRod]

While much shorter, she’s not far off the volume of the Constitution-class

All the more reason why the 442m length established by SNW works much better for the Constitution class.

 

[SCE2Aux]

I can see them on phones--the library won't even go to the bbs

I'm generally on Scifi Meshes Discord these days, and not so much on the forum. Give my Artstation page a try, see if the images load up on there.
https://www.artstation.com/sce2aux5

It still needs some finesse, but I've got all the animation elements working together in this clip:

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Youtube, seems to be defaulting the video to potato quality, but there are higher res versions that can be selected.

 

[Santaman]

That's awesome.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

That’s your FIRST animation? FML. Incredible. (I’m also your second subscriber. )

 

[SCE2Aux]

That’s your FIRST animation? FML. Incredible. (I’m also your second subscriber. )

Thankyou
It's my first starship animation, but I've occasionally done simple domestic interior fly-throughs for my job.

I'm continuing to learn Davinci Resolve/Fusion because there's a few things that I want to change about this sequence (a little too much lens flare, plus the warp effect could do with some work etc), and I'm going to re-render the middle portion of the frames because they could do with longer render times (too much noise marring the image in places)

 

[TRON JA307020]

IIRC, there are some fan made NX variants out there that show the front of the saucer filled in with retrofitted panelling. It makes logical sense to get rid of it, but I'm going to keep the saucer deflector on mine. However' I'll skew more towards NX-02 Columbia's design. In my opinion, Columbia's flatter, squarer deflector aesthetically works better in that narrow space on the saucer rim, compared to Enterprise's squished parabolic design.

I want to keep the saucer deflector in order to preserve as much of the NX design language as possible. I'll be making a bunch changes to the design, but I still want it to read as an NX at a glance.

I actually like the deflector dish. Nice work.

 

[SCE2Aux]

Finished sequence:

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[Mage]

Well that's just insane. I love the warp effect. There's a sort of double whammy effect, if you know what I mean.
This needs music and sound effects!

 

[137th Gebirg]

Perfection!

 

[TRON JA307020]

Finished sequence:

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Excellent.

 

[SCE2Aux]

Well that's just insane. I love the warp effect. There's a sort of double whammy effect, if you know what I mean.
This needs music and sound effects!

Here's some sound

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[Firebird]

That animation is wonderful! Very, very, very good work, @SCE2Aux!