Feeling inspired this year so thought I'd start sharing this project finally. Over the years I've gone through many different iterations and at times have got stuck in a cycle of rumination and not being able to commit to a form due to having the luxury of time and no pressure of an impending deadline. But over the last month things have got moving again and I'm really happy with how the blocked out form has settled.
Little background, this all started in 2008 with a 2am caffeine fuelled scribble during a Uni deadline
Since then I've stop started due to work/life/etc... and this is now the 4th version inspired by that doodle. I haven't committed to a time period, instead just had fun with how I imagine the aesthetic of a time period between TNG/Picard and the 32nd Century shown in Disco would look. Think of the jump in design language between TMP and TNG.
I wanted to take design cues from ships that would hint and what is to come and what came before (e.g. the 'horseshoe' collar on the saucer rim inspired by the Saturn Class, split nacelle of the Ent-J and the cobra neck smooth transition from the saucer to the secondary hull from the Ent-D).
Next up is to work on the saucer/bridge spine, end of secondary hull then add next level of detail. After that time to clean up and the knit the geometry into one piece before locking it down to do the fine detailing.
Enjoy
Little background, this all started in 2008 with a 2am caffeine fuelled scribble during a Uni deadline
Since then I've stop started due to work/life/etc... and this is now the 4th version inspired by that doodle. I haven't committed to a time period, instead just had fun with how I imagine the aesthetic of a time period between TNG/Picard and the 32nd Century shown in Disco would look. Think of the jump in design language between TMP and TNG.
I wanted to take design cues from ships that would hint and what is to come and what came before (e.g. the 'horseshoe' collar on the saucer rim inspired by the Saturn Class, split nacelle of the Ent-J and the cobra neck smooth transition from the saucer to the secondary hull from the Ent-D).
Next up is to work on the saucer/bridge spine, end of secondary hull then add next level of detail. After that time to clean up and the knit the geometry into one piece before locking it down to do the fine detailing.
Enjoy
