Unearthly Challenge | it-bleeds-pixels-when-I-Pea (aka TBD) | TBD

Michael Knubben

That's just an image I knocked up which the rest of the team hasn't seen yet, so expect that to change. We're looking at incorporating a good mix of Mechanical and organic, and still sketching things to achieve that, while sticking to one of the concepts. We initially chose concept 24 (I think), but now we're expanding on that quite drastically by having it be a small indoors part of a large outdoors environment.
The sketch you see here is a spaceship cemetery of sorts, with a broken ship (with the aforementioned concept 24 on the inside) used as a makeshift camp of sorts.

edit: the team consists of Razorbladder, bitmap and me. Although we haven't heard from tito yet, so let's wait and see whether he agree with the direction I'm going in.
One thing I see when I look at the image again is that I should scale down the smaller ship a lot more, to really bring out the impressive scale of the other ships. And also that the layout sort of sucks.

felixthepuerto

This could be pretty cool...

Michael Knubben

A bit more fleshed out. Any suggestions would be welcome! Bitmap's working on some highpoly stuff already, as well, so hopefully we'll have some of that to show off soon enough.

adam

Which concept did you choose?

Michael Knubben

Initially we were going with http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/events/4/concepts/images/concept_24.html , but wanted to extend it to encompass the exterior of the ship, and the environment in which it had crashed, but now we're using the ship from http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/events/4/concepts/images/concept_57.html

Michael Knubben

There's a small chance that we'll need a new team-member, since Bitmap doesn't like 'scifi stuff, you know. star wars and all that crap'. His heathen words, not mine!
He's considering whether he wants to rock with the cool kids or do his own thing, but in the event he wants to go it alone, I'm just posting this to see if anyone likes the concepts and wants to join Razorbladder and me.

StJoris

ah man that would really suck if you had to work without a full team for some reason

edited for constructiveness:

I like the painterly quality of your concept, but at the moment it's bit hard to tell what's going on. Too much seperate somewhat unrelated parts that leave me confused about what's supposed to be happening. I guess making the things relate to each other more that are supposed to and increase the contrast with parts that are supposed to be different, conceptually and visually, it would make this stronger.

Michael Knubben

So... you don't like the concept and don't want to join? That's a wonderfully constructive post, thank you.

Funky Bunnies

I'm a little confused where you're going to add the concept-24 elements? or are you not gonna go with that any longer?

I know you said you weren't really a total fan of the composition yet, but I think it's overall a bit too static. Most of the elements are uncomfortably close or similarly distanced, and come off a bit methodical rather than natural. The Greentooth ship in particular seems a bit too small in this new iteration and pretty uninteresting with its orientation to the viewpoint.

A ship graveyard oughtta be a sweet idea

Mr GetDown

I like thoughs pink shapes on the left.
Goody!

RazorBladder

Just to show I'm not sitting on both my thumbs, here's a render of a quick muddy WIP sculpt I did of the organic spaceship.



Next step, TENTACLE RAPE!

RazorBladder

Originally I was polymodelling this (points @ front end of ship), unfortunately I completely fucked up the mesh by attaching it to something whilst it has turbosmooth on, 3dsmax doesn't seem to know how to undo such things so I was left smacking my head and a bit disheartened so I threw it into mudbox instead.

I still may be able to smooth out the rear section and polymodel around it.

UPDATE: Alright, I got over my blunder and have started polymodelling the rear section of the ship, it's still WIP.

RazorBladder

FINALLY! Got the low-poly done... Now I need to start on texturing it