Cartoonish 3d Ship WIP [update]

EricElwell

This will be my first 3d attempt in a long time... So I will be posting progress shots in this thread.. yay.

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Sorry for the immense pixel pollution, I just wanted lots of angles to view. Using pior's totally cool depth of field thing. It gets a little annoying since the model is not done, but I think it helps show depth. Anyway.. threw down some vertex paint, 80% unwrapped, just need to find time to finish the unwrap and do the texture... Should be fun. C&C Welcome..[/update]

Turoid

Hahaha cool idea! How many sails are you going to make?
Looks good.. I think you still got your 3d skills hmm but yah.. 3d is the same as cycling, you never forget how to do it :P

EricElwell

Thanks for the comment, I'm not really set on anything. I actually started out on a house, and then decided I wanted to start strip modelling, and a ship was the first thing that came to mind.

So I had the sail in place and took some viewport shots, when my laptop shorted out... Doesn't like the transform tool in PS I guess.. :-\

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EricElwell

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Added sails, flag, and cleaned up some areas... Also did smoothing groups..

1360ish polies, I gave myself a 1500 budget..
Thinking about adding cannons, ropes, and windows, maybe detailing the bridge a little bit... Comments/Crits??? I'd like to get some feedback before I unwrap it.. thanks!

Oleg Linkov

looks nice, i like it. but i think you could save few tris by reducing number of steps in that stair. it looks too detailed compared to the rest of the ship imo.

EarthQuake

Run the risk of losing the sense of scale of you make the steps too large.....

Gmanx

..or replace them with a ramp, and paint them in..

EricElwell

OK, haven't been able to put an immense amount of work into it.. but some detail changes:

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Getting ahead of myself a little bit here, but I wanted to do a quick vertex paint to get a better idea of where this is going:

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I'll probably do a draw over here soon to finalize some ideas. I'd like to add a big anchor, a sail on the front, a bunch of ropes, some barrels and crates..

so as far as the theme, I dug up this sketch from my sketchbook... this is the general theme I am going for:

EricElwell

Trashed old images, updated images at the top

low odor

Arrrrrr swab the poop off the pup deck...cool stuff