So, years ago I used to do cgi stuff, a fair bit trek based, but fell out of it. I've recently started up again, and am trying to be a little bit better.
Here's the first ship I worked on, the USS Endeavour:
Not quite finished yet, there's a few details I want to add and a couple of bits to spruce up, including getting the self illumination to work better (also I think I made the hull windows too big and it needs more on the saucer). And someday I'll figure out how to get proper textures on and give it registry markings.
Backstory: The Excelsior was originally a testbed for new technologies, and after construction it seems to have spent an awful lot of time sitting around in drydock before actuallly being properly commisioned. So the way I see it, before the Excelsior proved itself as the future workhorse of starfleet, the Admiralty wanted to hedge their bets: the Endeavour was commissioned as a more direct replacement for the venerable Constitution class, less radical than the Excelsior but incorporating several of the new designs it pioneered, while also showing off some refinements and advances that would eventually work their way back to the Exclesior with the Enterprise B model (in the engines mostly). Obviously the Excelsior did eventually work out its teething problems, and went on to become the primary large starship for Starfleet, so the Endeavour was never produced in huge numbers. But I see a few of them continuing to serve here and there for quite some time, as the Excelsior's 'Little Sister'.
and some other pictures from the WIP process:
Here's the first ship I worked on, the USS Endeavour:
Not quite finished yet, there's a few details I want to add and a couple of bits to spruce up, including getting the self illumination to work better (also I think I made the hull windows too big and it needs more on the saucer). And someday I'll figure out how to get proper textures on and give it registry markings.
Backstory: The Excelsior was originally a testbed for new technologies, and after construction it seems to have spent an awful lot of time sitting around in drydock before actuallly being properly commisioned. So the way I see it, before the Excelsior proved itself as the future workhorse of starfleet, the Admiralty wanted to hedge their bets: the Endeavour was commissioned as a more direct replacement for the venerable Constitution class, less radical than the Excelsior but incorporating several of the new designs it pioneered, while also showing off some refinements and advances that would eventually work their way back to the Exclesior with the Enterprise B model (in the engines mostly). Obviously the Excelsior did eventually work out its teething problems, and went on to become the primary large starship for Starfleet, so the Endeavour was never produced in huge numbers. But I see a few of them continuing to serve here and there for quite some time, as the Excelsior's 'Little Sister'.
and some other pictures from the WIP process:
I initially wasn't so sure about the beak (seemed a bit on the nose*), but the more I look at it the more I like it.
