2DA Bold New Venture

madeinjapan1988

It's been a while folks! So first off *wave*

I hope everyone has been doing well. For those of you on DeviantArt who follow me, you know what I've been up to. Plugging away at the JJ Perception. Well, a couple nights ago - fueled by caffeine, sleep deprivation, and sheer spite of myself - I began sketching ships. At about 3am, I stumbled upon a little gem of a design. I really liked it and scanned it into my computer for safe keeping. Today I got a chance to start working on her.

I wanted to create a ship that would replace Perception. I figured much like the Ambassador-Galaxy-Sovereign lineage (rapid development of new design as soon as the next one is out the door), the Perception would soon be replaced by a newer, bigger, faster, and more advanced starship. Toying around with ideas with know necks (that is the blended body that we see in the Sovy and the Intrepid), I realized that part of me wanted the neck back. Consequently I started sketching those and came up with what you see above.

Her and the Perception share some elements - going for that whole lineage thing again - but at the same time are quite different. This ship sits about about 1250m. (so about the same size of Perception's 1225m) However, she has 33 decks to Perception's 26, giving her a hair more internal volume.

I hope you enjoy the WIP shot. C&C appreciated.

ghanima

I love it!! This is simply an amazing start! I think the shape and design is fantastic - much better than all those 'flat', and super sleek designs most people come up with these days. This has depth and character, and is nice homage to the connie. The only nitpick is the length of the registry number... could never fathom the need for excessively long reg numbers. But that has nothing to do with the design.

SOOO look forward to seeing this one along.

BTW i thought the Perception was wicked stuff too!

Endeavour

Beautiful work, as usual. :thumb:

CASUAL OBSERVER

i like it a lot. I'll be keeping my eye on this one

Galen

Amazing work dude. perhaps its time to plan the next ship after legacy

oneal

Holy Crap! Thats HOT! Great work on all your designs.

Orion's belt

you just dont stop!

I would still like to see the Nebula version of the Preception

Orion's belt

can we see the original art? I was reading your DA stuff and i perosnally think the Nacelles are perfect

NanoGator

Nice!

Jimi James

That's a big ship and a very nice start.

CASUAL OBSERVER

Just out of curiosity, what font do you use?

Capt. Eric Gardner

...you never cease to amaze me. The Venture-class Starship...and you made this beauty up? ....absolutly amazing.

Mister K

wow, that's a wonderful ship!

[Irishman]

Usually fan ships are out of balance in one sense or another.

This one is different. I wouldn't change a thing. In fact, I don't think I'd add many more details at all, unless you're going for that JJ level of detail.

Dmitri

Wow. She's looking pretty freaking fantastic. You have some serious skills with this 2d stuff- it's very clear, good lines, and rather detailed. Cheers!

Igor

I think that if other artists look upon this ship as a testbed for new technology, such as how the Excelsior was a testbed for transwarp drive, we could create a backstory that the project was successful - and immediately start work on other ships utilizing the new configuration standards!

madeinjapan1988

First off all, thank you for the very very positive responses. I'm glad everyone likes the design as much as I do! I feel she is a nice step above the Perception in terms of balance and elegance and I myself was starting to get frustrated with the feel of the ships with no necks. Felt time to bring em back.

Look forward to posting more updates as the project progresses and getting feedback from you all. You all continue to be both a source of inspiration, great discussion, and great commentary (if frustrating for an artist at times! )

CASUAL OBSERVER wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, what font do you use?

I use Korataki. Its a commercially available font (cost me 39.95 for the 5) that was used in the new movie.

[Irishman] wrote: »

Usually fan ships are out of balance in one sense or another.

This one is different. I wouldn't change a thing. In fact, I don't think I'd add many more details at all, unless you're going for that JJ level of detail.

I am going for the JJ level. There will be lots of details and lighting and such as with my other designs.

Igor wrote: »

I think that if other artists look upon this ship as a testbed for new technology, such as how the Excelsior was a testbed for transwarp drive, we could create a backstory that the project was successful - and immediately start work on other ships utilizing the new configuration standards!

Well actually, I came up with a reason. With perception, I had in the tech manual that both the warp nacelles and the deflector are used in slipstream propulsion. With this configuration (the engineering hull slung under more) the engines and the deflector now make an equilateral triangle meaning all 3 of the projecting elements for the Slipstream drive are equidistant meaning you boost slipstream efficiency by 45.3%. consequently future ships of my design will have equidistant nacelle deflector configs.

Actually though - the testbed was more the Perception which was the first ship in my timeline to use slipstream on a mainstream level.

Kronos 1

Now that is majestic; you are knocking these designs out of the park again and again. Looking forward to more of your work.

Hmm, what ever happened to your jj-e refit?

Flanker

Have to agree with everyone here, a very interesting and promising start and certainly another project to look forward too. Also looking forward (hoping) to seeing you add additional details like shuttles etc.

aylaa12

great ship

[Deleted User]

wow verry cool give us more

madeinjapan1988

Thanks again all for the positive feedback. It has meant a lot. Here is an update for you all. C&C appreciated as always. Going for a new Texturing technique on this one that I feel is far more solid feeling. Hope you all enjoy.

-Josh

Orion's belt

is there anyway you can post a higher pixel version so we can see really close up like the preception class? So does this ship have the fighter carrying capabilities the Preception had? also how many units are you thinking for this class?

Rekkert

Nice! I love that paneling effect.

madeinjapan1988

Orion's belt wrote: »

is there anyway you can post a higher pixel version so we can see really close up like the preception class? So does this ship have the fighter carrying capabilities the Preception had? also how many units are you thinking for this class?

She does have the fighter carrying capability and probably only 20 ships.

I'll probably wait for the higher pixel versions till I am done with each view.

Orion's belt

that makes sence. you mentioned some new technology and i was wondering what else you had in mind.

Orion's belt

Just in my opinion it looks like this ship should have less of a carrier focus then the precetption does.

Hawks

Very good design. Any chance that there will be a full color Top Side few anytime soon?

Capt.Hunter

I like the direction so far. It does make me wonder how high in the digits Starfleet would actually go in their registries before deciding on resetting them or doing something else.

TrekMD

Very nice!

Endeavour

Now that is what the Sovereign should have looked like! I always felt that getting rid of the neck on Starfleet designs destroyed some of the stately grace the older ships had.

I look forward to seeing further views, this is a beautiful design.

And I realize this is the wrong thread, but what's the status of the Perception?