The Red-Horizon Battlecarrier project
I am almost at my deadline for this mesh, so I figure I'd post what I have and maybe get some final critiques as I finish it off.
Concept and mesh are all of my own creation, for a contest being held on another forum.
^^the first concept^^
^^refined concept^^
Concept and mesh are all of my own creation, for a contest being held on another forum.
^^the first concept^^
^^refined concept^^
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And some scene that I got a bit distracted drawing. I promise I'll finish the Battlecarrier....
Warning; might break sanity if you view full resolution.
Some smoothing errors still present in the sketchfab mesh, but the work continues, no time to endlessly tweak settings in that website. :poly118:
High Source (View in 3D)
P3d.in has a bit better import for my mesh groups for some reason... so have a look there for a very rough approximation of color breakdown.
If I might add a sugestion:
The front area is already very nice detailed and is pleasure to look at. The back in comparison still is very bland. So I would suggest to try to keep your model evenly fleshed out in terms of detail. DOn't lose your self too much in certain areas, when others are not guaranteed to have passed their blockout stage.
I'm saying this because the back and the underside of the carrier are very rough blocked out. And I wouldn't be surprised of some changes in the design might occur when you try to add more interesting shapes in those areas. And it definetely would be a shame if you have to make foul comprimises to make everything (front vs. back) work together in the spaceship.
Don't get me wrong. The detailing and shapes you modeled on the front are gorgeous. I hope you keep this level for the rest of the carrier without too much repetition of the same patterns and balance between noisy detail and clean areas. But I guess the whole craft would benefit if you were more certain about the 3d shapes that you want to apply at all the other areas that are still missing on the model. The concept looks great but sometimes things in 2d don't work very well in 3d.
Anyway: Great work. Keep it going, dude.
Slave_zero, the model is still very much WIP, but for the most part I have details locked in, tied through my various concepts I've made. There are going to be flat sections on this ship, and very high detail areas as well. I find this is the best way to make an effective design, otherwise your detail just resolves into noise.
So far, I've not had to make many compromises, when it comes to the actual design->model just because of how I make the concepts based on actual screenshots. It keeps the amount of guess work down.
Thank you for the in depth critique, I will keep it in mind as I finish up the modeling on the unfinished sections.
And since I can't post in my own thread without some nice artwork....a friend of mine did an art trade a little while back, using my ship's model.
I do not think you would want a ship (military or otherwise) to stand out so much with those yellow lines. I would think a more off black, or other dark color would be better. And it may look better to stick to larger bulking color shapes when it comes to the dark color; using it to accent areas on the ship.
other then that great stuff!
RailbladerX, i completely hear you on the red/yellow lines standing out. But that's a deliberate choice. The ships employ an elctro-adaptive paint so they change according to whim. It's a bit of psywarfare, like the pirate ships of old 'running up the colors'
A fleet shot.
Getting back to work on this.