NCC Apocalypse Version 2.0 WIP

[dubeau]

This is a very old ship I made long ago. I want to modernize it and do it in 3dsMax.
The old ship:
http://membre.oricom.ca/komaro/3d_08.html

So here is what I have done so far, in the saucer area:

 

[Kaiser]

Very nice design there

 

[dubeau]

Work on the engine nacelles, and the middle part between them. To strengthen them but also, the support for the ray beam something...

 

[Kaiser]

Nice

 

[dubeau]

Completed the engine's link between nacelle to engine. Rework the upper saucer area, and remove the bulk shape for a more tube like form.

 

[erifah]

This ship creeps me out.

Not sure what it is, maybe an instinctive reaction to echoes of things too evil to imagine. But it grips my heart with cold chills of terrifying... terror.

I am reminded of pics of ants taken with electron scanning microscopes - tiny critters capable of incredible pain and destruction with those mighty mandibles... super-sized to horrific dimensions! Eek!

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Looks more like a preying mantis to me.

 

[Kaiser]

reminds me of the green bug guy villian from Space Ghost

 

[dubeau]

I had time to work on the engine. Showing you the wireframe too...

 

[Kaiser]

i like them Nacelles

 

[erifah]

I like what you have done to the saucer area with the revised ship. I prefer where you were going with the nacelles & struts on the old design.

The new struts look, to me, like curved radiator hoses in a '95 El Dorado. Or like vacuum cleaner hoses with attachments to get into tight corners and baseboards. Nowhere near creepy enough.

 

[dubeau]

Update with some texture work:

 

[Kaiser]

Lovely texture work

 

[dubeau]

 

[Kaiser]

looking good so far

 

[dubeau]

 

[Ensign Ro-]

Your 3-D work is really good. This re-imagining of your original design is definitely an improvement. That original just had too much of an insectoid feel. However, something that saddens me is seeing so many designers being influenced more and more by either Star Wars or the JJ-verse. One of the things I liked about Trek designs was the sleekness, the clean lines. Phaser banks were "low-lying" as opposed to the gun turrets I see being used more and more. However, that's just a matter of taste. You obviously have good design skills and knowledge of your software. Nice work.

 

[dubeau]

The turrets are retractable. It's just I didn't figure out yet how to design it visually. Those turrets are recycled from my Captain Harlock ship. But there's gonna be rounder ones in the back.

 

[backstept]

interesting design
but shouldn't it be USS Apocalypse?

 

[dubeau]

No USS. Just Apocalypse, it was designed on one of the earth colony. So I think USS is kind of out of place...