Alternate take on the USS Discovery

Cjohnson1701 · Oct 7, 2018

Hey guys and gals of the TrekBBS.

Read the title?

Good.

Remember the Last ship I made? It's been awhile.

Watched Discovery, I liked it, liked the ship too, wanted to do a spin on it.

Here it is:

Still gotta do shuttle bay and shuttle
Tweak the lighting
Animate the buzzards

Then I can upload this as a full 3d model

sooo,
What do you think?
..also..
Ya miss me?

Mage · Oct 7, 2018

I love it!!! I also really love the Crossfield class itself, so hard for me to decide which I like more. But this is sweet!

Ar-Pharazon · Oct 7, 2018

You do beautiful work. It could easily be a follow-up or a massive refit of the Discovery.

Personally, I'm fine with the Crossfield class looking like the POTT "Enterprise"....more or less.

Rattrap · Oct 9, 2018

I like it. Of course, I actually preferred the "kit-bash" the Art Department put together and animated in four days for the original show announcement.

Rekkert · Oct 9, 2018

Fantastic concept! It's incredible how much better the base design looks with just a few tweaks. The cylindrical secondary hull goes a long way there.

Cjohnson1701 · Oct 14, 2018

Whelp, I got the shuttle bay done enough.
Oh, and thank you for all the comments, I will address them once I upload a few more beauty shots tomorrow.
It's good to see ya Mage, I remember you commenting back when I made the USS Pike!

Hopefully until the hi-rez prints are ready that the link below will tide you all over.

Link:
https://skfb.ly/6CqvG

If you click on the link above you can play around with the full model. WITH SPINNY BLUE WARP NACELLES!!!!!!

Mage · Oct 14, 2018

I remember the Pike, I really loved that ship!

TrekMD · Oct 14, 2018

I like it!

Takeru · Oct 14, 2018

Cjohnson1701 said:
Whelp, I got the shuttle bay done enough.
Oh, and thank you for all the comments, I will address them once I upload a few more beauty shots tomorrow.
It's good to see ya Mage, I remember you commenting back when I made the USS Pike!

Hopefully until the hi-rez prints are ready that the link below will tide you all over.

Link:
https://skfb.ly/6CqvG

If you click on the link above you can play around with the full model. WITH SPINNY BLUE WARP NACELLES!!!!!!

That's a fantastic looking ship, you should give it a new registry and name, it deserves to be more than "alternate Discovery" imo.

Flowrellik · Oct 15, 2018

WHOA.
I can definately see this as a sort of refit to the original Crossfield. Very nicely done!

Cjohnson1701 · Oct 18, 2018

Ar-Pharazon said:
You do beautiful work. It could easily be a follow-up or a massive refit of the Discovery.

Personally, I'm fine with the Crossfield class looking like the POTT "Enterprise"....more or less.

Thank you, also I do like the current design as well, then again I like anything done by Ralph McQuarrie.

Rattrap said:
I like it. Of course, I actually preferred the "kit-bash" the Art Department put together and animated in four days for the original show announcement.

So, does that mean you are easy to please? Or do you just hate cutouts? Either way is just prime with me, you do you Rattrap.

Rekkert said:
Fantastic concept! It's incredible how much better the base design looks with just a few tweaks. The cylindrical secondary hull goes a long way there.

I honestly came up with all this at 2am, wanted to bring the Crossfield Class closer to "Starfleet Standard" also known as "Man, what if the discovery looked more like the Enterprise?" Not the best thought, but it did happen at 2am.

Mage said:
I remember the Pike, I really loved that ship!

I got you covered bud:

Takeru said:
That's a fantastic looking ship, you should give it a new registry and name, it deserves to be more than "alternate Discovery" imo.

Normally I would love to do that, but I really don't want redo every single text item in a single 4k texure document 5 or so different times.....so It'll do as an Alternate discovery, also halloween is dope and so is Brian Fuller.

Now onto the beauties:

Due to the low quality of the last one, it will not be available for print. ( I might enter it in the art contest here......)
But the 1st four are!
(Note: It's free, due to it being fan work. all you get is a pdf ready for printing 8 x 10 inches)

Mage · Oct 18, 2018

Cjohnson1701 said:
I got you covered bud:

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Is that a whole new mesh?

Cjohnson1701 · Oct 21, 2018

Yeah I made it around 2016, I lost the file and to be fair it was a monster to texture. I may bring it back one day.

Currently I'm working on the Artstation's shogunate challenge so if I re-tackle the pike for full scale vfx work it'll probably in the new year.

publiusr · Nov 9, 2018

You do really great work. A very rakish ship

admiral horton · Nov 11, 2018

please post orthos this is how Discovery should have looked

Alternate take on the USS Discovery

Cjohnson1701

Lieutenant Commander

Mage

Vice Admiral

Ar-Pharazon

Admiral

Rattrap

Commander

Rekkert

Fleet Captain

Cjohnson1701

Lieutenant Commander

Mage

Vice Admiral

TrekMD

Captain

Takeru

Space Police

Flowrellik

Lieutenant Junior Grade

Cjohnson1701

Lieutenant Commander

Mage

Vice Admiral

Cjohnson1701

Lieutenant Commander

publiusr

Admiral

admiral horton

Ensign

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