A friend was wondering today how would a TIE Defender look with white solar panels like the TIE Fighters in the '
Star Wars: The Force Awakens' upcoming film, so I decided to retexture a 3D model I had and show him. Of course, instead of just doing that small change I got carried away and tried to imitate the
The Force Awakens look as much as I could and made the hull black and reflective, turned the cockpit into a mirror instead of transparent, and since the details were hard to appreciate in the blackness of space, I added a background landscape.
Original 3D model by Staffan Norling:
http://www.scifi3d.com/details.asp?intGenreID=10&intCatID=8&key=164
Background HDRI image by Maciek "Mac" Plewa:
http://macsix.deviantart.com/art/Anvil-Spherical-HDRI-Panorama-Skybox-416317312