Sketchbook: Aeraeni

Aeraeni

Hey all.

I'm a student at Staffordshire University in the UK, and I'm starting this thread off to display a little project I'm working on, for which any feedback would be very welcome indeed.

It's essentially a mechanical modeling piece, for which my concept has been taken from a random site I found with some interesting artwork.

The aim is to create this as a vehicle for an import into Unreal Tournament 3. Feedback and advice on the best way you see to go about the latter stage would be the most useful, as I'm a bit new to the UT3 editor.

Anyhow, here are my progress shots for now (concept is not mine);



So the above is the concept image I found. Since I'm hoping to make a flying vehicle based on this, I left out the turbines and the very last tail section, since the concept is billed as an aquatic vehicle. Decided to try setting it up as a VTOL style craft with jets within the wings.


Current Progress Shots (12400 poly model);


















Anyhow, there she is, comments and feedback VERY welcome.

Thanks guys.

Aeraeni

Particularly of use would be any methodologies that I can employ in further stages of the project, since for my masters course, I'm supposed to reference techniques of others versus my own initiatives.

Thanks again all.

ninjatofu

The one thing you might want to consider is scale. I really can't tell how big it is since I have nothing to relate to. I don't know if you want to make it the same size as the dimensions in the concept art, but you could throw in some doors/entrances/viewports to give it some scale.

Aeraeni

Yes I've considered that, but I've tried to keep it as close as I can to the concept. I'd like to assume the medallion at the center of the chest is a hatch inside.

Motorov

fly dragon, nice idea