3Dscifieric's Blender USS Enterprise

scifieric

Hello everyone!

It's been quite a while since I posted something here. I've rebuilt my USS Enterprise in Blender. I need to work on learning how to animate particles, build a shuttlebay, a shuttle craft, a Doomsday Machine, and a Constellation, but this is a start.

I've attached a shot from behind. This type of shot was used fairly frequently in episodes such as By Any Other Name, The Immunity Syndrome, The Lights of Zetar and others.



Here are some angles from around the ship to show how it all works together. Click for larger versions.

This one was actually done as a kind of tip of the hat to Madkoifish. He has a knack for showing these fantastically dramatic angles. I cannot reproduce that, but I can give

it a shot as a salute!



A front on shot. Note that all the warp engine lights are on at once. I know that this never happened (or at least rarely or I never saw it) and when I set them up for

animation, it should hopefully look a little more like the original.



A similar shot to the approach to K7 space station, only without the station. This is to show the inner sections of the warp engines, the impulse engine, and the bridge.



Here's the whole ship from below and off to the side.

Tralfaz

This stuff is frickin' amazing! Wonderful work and a beautiful specimen of the Enterprise.

scifieric

Thank you my friend!

madman1701a

Looks awesome!

I really like the angle of that front view!

-Ricky

Chris2005

Amazing! Almost looks like a real physical model.

scifieric

madman1701a wrote: »

Looks awesome!

I really like the angle of that front view!

-Ricky

Thank you Ricky!

Chris2005 wrote: »

Amazing! Almost looks like a real physical model.

Thank you Chris2005! That's what I was going for. I want to use this model to go back to my The Doomsday Machine project.

Chris2005

scifieric wrote: »

Thank you Chris2005! That's what I was going for. I want to use this model to go back to my The Doomsday Machine project.

Nice. I actually was planning on visiting that same episode after I get done with my TMP project. lol

I can't wait to see what you turn out.

Vortex5972

I love it. Looks perfect.

scifieric

Chris2005 wrote: »

Nice. I actually was planning on visiting that same episode after I get done with my TMP project. lol

I can't wait to see what you turn out.

Same here. I love seeing what other people do.

Vortex5972 wrote: »

I love it. Looks perfect.

Thank you! That's very kind of you to say!

scifieric

Vortex5972 wrote: »

I love it. Looks perfect.

Thank you! What a wonderfully kind thing to say. My work has been described as many things over time, but never perfect! Thank you Vortex!

scifieric

Made a new deflector dish from a small section of a huge sphere. This is closer to what I wanted. Click for a larger image.



Also changed the material for the engineering rear dome and made the internal light smaller to look a little more like the original. Click for a larger version.

Sooner or later I'll have to address the landing lights.



Here's a couple of closeup shots. No larger picture associated.

TALON_UK

Nice, loving the subtle weathering you have applied to the hull.

scifieric

Thank you TALON_UK! I want my model to look as close to the original that I remember from my childhood as I can get.

Vortex5972

scifieric wrote: »

Thank you! What a wonderfully kind thing to say. My work has been described as many things over time, but never perfect! Thank you Vortex!

You're welcome. Liking the updates. :thumb:

scifieric

Thank you again Vortex5972!

homerpalooza67

Eric, I recall watching an edit of 'The Doomsday Machine' with all the effects redone in CGI. I could've sworn your enterprise was in it.

scifieric

Thank you homerpalooza67!

I did some effects for The Doomsday Machine with an earlier version of my Enterprise a few years ago. I'm trying to learn how to create the star effects in Blender now. I'd like to redo my effects and finish that episode in HD!

homerpalooza67

You did a great job, one of the first TOS episodes I watched (in full).

scifieric

homerpalooza67 wrote: »

You did a great job, one of the first TOS episodes I watched (in full).

I appreciate the compliment! That's one of my favorite episodes.

homerpalooza67

My favorite is Trouble With Tribbles. Not a whole lot of CG to "fix" but i'd love to see "wires" added and rough comps on the enterprise and K9.
Also one of the best snark-jobs on TV. Kirk is such an a**hole but you love every minute of it!

scifieric

LOL! I enjoyed the backstage stories about the tribbles and David Gerrold's writing of the episode, along with his apology to HeinLein for unintentionally ripping off the novel The Rolling Stones.

scifieric

I know that I often talk about The Doomsday Machine, but one of the shots that I tend to emulate from the original Star Trek series as a test is the opening shot from The Immunity Syndrome.



Click the thumbnail to be taken to YouTube. If not, here is the link: https://youtu.be/Jh5a-X0FN_o

Everything made in Blender 3D including the particle system I made for the star background. The entire effects shot was composited in Blender as well, but I put the sequence together with the clip from the episode using Corel Video Studio 6.

uniderth

10,000 times better than TOS-R.

scifieric

uniderth wrote: »

10,000 times better than TOS-R.

You have no idea how happy that sentence makes me feel! Thank you uniderth!

Vortex5972

Looks really good. Rather like the studio model might have done had they got decent enough cameras at the time.

homerpalooza67

scifieric wrote: »

LOL! I enjoyed the backstage stories about the tribbles and David Gerrold's writing of the episode, along with his apology to HeinLein for unintentionally ripping off the novel The Rolling Stones.

Those were the days, eh? Now even an unintentional mistake like that can lead to lawsuits

scifieric wrote: »

I know that I often talk about The Doomsday Machine, but one of the shots that I tend to emulate from the original Star Trek series as a test is the opening shot from The Immunity Syndrome.



Click the thumbnail to be taken to YouTube. If not, here is the link: https://youtu.be/Jh5a-X0FN_o

Everything made in Blender 3D including the particle system I made for the star background. The entire effects shot was composited in Blender as well, but I put the sequence together with the clip from the episode using Corel Video Studio 6.

I can't see youtube at work, would you mind posting a couple hi-res screenshots? I"ll look at the whole clip when im home.

scifieric

Vortex5972 wrote: »

Looks really good. Rather like the studio model might have done had they got decent enough cameras at the time.

That's very kind of you Vortex5972! Thank you! (Makes me feel good!)

homerpalooza67 wrote: »

Those were the days, eh? Now even an unintentional mistake like that can lead to lawsuits

I can't see youtube at work, would you mind posting a couple hi-res screenshots? I"ll look at the whole clip when im home.

Yep. I'm actually pretty surprised that nothing came out of that. I guess it all depends upon intent and the humor of the person "offended". James Cameron had to append an acknowledgement to Harlan Ellison at the end of The Terminator for something similar!

I only saw this after I got home. This test was at about DVD resolution, so I'll post a couple of those for now.

scifieric

And for fun, here's a shot to simulate the "blue spill" from blue screens of the day. That, and the occasional color gel over the lights.

homerpalooza67

fantastic!

scifieric

homerpalooza67 wrote: »

fantastic!

Thank You homerpalooza67!

homerpalooza67

Just watched the video. Muchas Awesomeness!