Star Ship Polaris

[Jeyl]

Well, as long as it doesn't make that annoying Jellyfish spinning noise from Trek09, I'll be perfectly ok with it. It looks great!

 

[publiusr]

It does look a bit like the Jellyfish predecessor. With its vertical make up--call it the Sunfish class, since it does resemble a sunfish.

OT, I seem to remember a story about a WWII tale who swore he saw an injured mate eaten by sunfish!

 

[BK613]

Great ship and great design but if it were me I'd leave the NCC-xxxx style hull numbers in the trekverse. Maybe do something like USAF tactical numbers, which is AF over the fiscal procurement year, with the last digits of the serial number to the right in a bigger font.
Example

 

[Vektor]

The registry number was just a random collection of characters I slapped on and is in no way final.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Getting down to the nitty-gritty detailing:



Click the image for an even larger version.

Barring any major revisions, I should be able to start with the serious 3D modeling work fairly soon.

Jason, that is just MARVELOUS "pen-and-digital ink" work there. Very nifty... I am green with envy for your drawing talents.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

There you go.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Great ship and great design but if it were me I'd leave the NCC-xxxx style hull numbers in the trekverse. Maybe do something like USAF tactical numbers, which is AF over the fiscal procurement year, with the last digits of the serial number to the right in a bigger font.
Example

Orly? Learned something new today... interesting.

 

[RAMA]

Excellent!

Now progressing to the 3D stage:

These are, of course, preliminary, with lots of parts and pieces yet to be added and lots of detailing to be done. Much of it is still subject to change but I felt it was time to move beyond the concept sketches, especially since Dennis and his team are starting to look at 3D assets for the effects work.

More to come.

 

[Vektor]

Just when you think ol' Vektor has given up the 3D game for good, you find out I'm just full of surprises!

Expect to see more of these coming pretty fast and frequent.

 

[ghoyle1]

I really love it! That's bold and dynamic. I love the vertical alignment, assuming that's how the ship is actually oriented. If not, pardon my ignorance! ;-)

Guy

 

[sojourner]

It gets better. If I remember right, the decks are perpendicular to the direction of travel. So the top deck is at the nose of the ship and the bottom deck is near the engines.

p.s. YAY!! Vektor's back!!!!

 

[largo]

vector's back? i'd heard that he'd gone to join an ascetic trekkie commune in the mountains of nepal.

 

[erifah]

vector's back? i'd heard that he'd gone to join an ascetic trekkie commune in the mountains of nepal.

I hear the ritual scrotum shavings, though breathtaking, got to be a bit tedious.

 

[Albertese]

I hear the ritual scrotum shavings, though breathtaking, got to be a bit tedious.

But I do suggest you try it.

--Alex

 

[Tom Hendricks]

I hear the ritual scrotum shavings, though breathtaking, got to be a bit tedious.

But I do suggest you try it.

--Alex

It does make your Starship look bigger.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I love this - I particularly like the addition of the "antenna" extensions to the smaller wings.

 

[USS Intrepid]

Can't wait to see the finished model. She really is a beauty.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I've got to work on finding someone or learning to do the conversion to Lightwave - my experience with Chiron has not been salutory in that regard other than to alert me to how involved this can be.

 

[Vektor]

For what it's worth, I intend to deliver the model with everything collapsed to basic Poly or Mesh objects, nothing fancy. I may wind up doing my own texturing at some point but I'm probably not going to attempt UV mapping the version I send you as that tends to be one of the biggest conversion headaches. Better to let your own CGI guys do that.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Thanks. I know that conversions from Max can be pretty challenging. I've never done UV mapping, so I definitely need to find help there.