Studies in Industrial Spacecraft Design

Paul Pepera · Sep 2015

Hey PC

Wanted to share an ongoing personal project. Few months ago I started working on some industrial spacecraft concepts. Ive been trying to incorporate cloth as a material more into my designs to help give a more authentic and functional feeling. Programs I'm using are 3ds Max, Marvelous Designer, Vray, Photoshop, Zbrush. Thanks for looking!

fearian · Sep 2015

I've really been loving these since the tug boat/ships!

Do you do much touch up to the cloth in zbrush?

Really fresh stuff!

BradMyers82 · Sep 2015

Very cool! I'm also curious about the workflow. Seems like it would be tough to sculpt all those folds everywhere.

Matt_Billeci · Sep 2015

Really loving the cloth work you did. Great job, man!

Paul Pepera · Sep 2015

Thanks guys

@fearian 95% of the work is done in Marvelous Designer. I use Zbrush mostly for micro tweaking and decimating the mesh down to more manageable poly levels. I use soft selection in Max to deform the MD results to fit in the shapes on the ship.

sziada · Sep 2015

love how functional these are, what did you render this in?

alexdubbeat · Sep 2015

Very interesting and unique works. Thanks for sharing Paul.

DanielR17 · Sep 2015

I really like what you've done. Great quality. But there's too much clothing stuff, cushion, foamy protection. On the arm, yes (see the Canadarm for example), but not everywhere else. It looks great, I concede, but you can mix materials up more.

Other than that, great details and precision. Impressive. And realistic too.

Stinkfoot · Sep 2015

Are you from nasa? how is Area 51 this time of year?

Looks great, why is most of the stuff in cloth btw? isolation?

skullsplitter · Sep 2015

They look AMAZING.

Joost · Sep 2015

It would be really awesome to see a breakdown of how you incorporate Marvellous Designer into your workflow!

brandoom · Sep 2015

Nice work Paul! How long would one of these ships take you start to finish?

moof · Sep 2015

Joost wrote: »

It would be really awesome to see a breakdown of how you incorporate Marvellous Designer into your workflow!

Yes plz! This stuff looks amazin

_Kratos_ · Sep 2015

Brilliant! And very fresh!

genwu · Sep 2015

Just crazy awesome design...and obviously topest of the top notch modeling

Completely unrelated here...but i'm pretty sure my pc would explode just importing one of those, let alone actively work on it AND render it.

Any chance for some pc specs on your work machine?

IxenonI · Sep 2015

Awesome cloth work and superb design / modeling. Would love to see a breakdown of the MD process...

Great work Paul!

amirabd2130 · Sep 2015

really awesome work man :thumbup: :thumbup:

Paul Pepera · Sep 2015

Thanks everyone! I'm currently working on an MD workflow tutorial for these ships

@sziada - Used Vray for the rendering

@genwu - 32 gig Ram, 3.20 GHZ CPU, 64bit win7, GeForce GTX titan

Snefer · Sep 2015

this is spectacularly cozy looking ships : ) was the flat one inspired by airport tugs by any chance? The shape language in the back reminds me alot of those : )

Micaki · Sep 2015

great render and awesome fluffy ships :P can you say a word or 2 about lighting setup?

Mstankow · Sep 2015

Looks fantastic. The National Air and Space museum in DC has both Space Lab and Sky Lab at each of the museums. Space Lab is covered in a similar material and would be a great reference to look at.

AlecMoody · Sep 2015

These are really cool. I would love to see you integrate the gold foil radiant heat barrier that NASA uses. It would provide good material variety and another method for color blocking in the designs.