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Hey y'all. I was on the site way back when I was in college, about 2008-2010-ish. I didn't do much, but since then I've pretty much dropped out of modeling altogether. Now that I'm coming up on 8 years out of college, I want to get into, and get better than I was. I think I've managed that in some respects even with the few hours of practice that I have gotten.
So, without further ado, I give you my latest doodle in polygons.
To be honest, this is probably as far as I'll be taking this one. It's mostly practice to figure out how to manipulate edgeflows. Done in Blender, Rendered in Eevee.
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As you can see, I am way out of practice with drawing and I hope to be fixing that as well as working on my modeling.
You can get lost in doing details.
Shipping container concept. Done mainly to illustrate what I was talking about in terms of scale.
Sub-d modeling practice. I have come to loathe the front of the Ferrari 488 TDB Coupe.
And a missile I banged out in a few hours today.
There's also a shuttle that'll never see the light of day, but that's because I went in without any plan and you can't really do that when modeling I have learned.
@evil_genius_180: Oh you'd probably be saying something different if you saw the wireframe. The topology is a mess in the corners.
All that really matters is the rendered result. I know some of my wireframes can look like garbage, but it renders OK, so I'm happy.
The joys of being an artist I guess.
Ain't that the truth
IMS The Ballad Of One-Ball Riley by [Søren], on Flickr
Here's a few renders of the sketch model I made to figure out some things.
After making these and sleeping on it, I've decided two things. First, the ship's getting flipped upside down. Second, the ship needs to get a lot smaller, about 1/3 to 1/4 the current size in that sketch (for reference, the ship is about 400-ish meters long)
The main reason for the down sizing is to allow it to use the standard cargo modules I've come up with.
And here's my progress so far.
A lot of tonight was getting things set up for this project and learning how to use the Knife Project tool in blender. I started off with the frame because I plan on rigging this to open up. And I figured that was as good a place as any. Besides, once I have the frame done, I can make variations.
And just because I don't really have anywhere else to put them, here's some more doodles that I've worked over the past few days.
And started on the panels.
Next up is the doors and the pistons that actuate them, mainly because I'm not sure if I like what I have for the frame.
I think a part of it was I didn't account for how to make the container pressure-tight. I've also made some changes to how big it is and the system over all.
Might as well get into it here. I mean, most of us like to the in-universe logic for things, right?
The idea is that this is to space cargo what intermodal containers are to modern cargo. I'm going to be taking some liberties with the size of the container mainly because the setting this is going in is only loosely based our galaxy. I've got some interesting aliens and the like that I'll post here when I get around to doing proper designs for them, buuuut that's getting off topic.
So, the idea behind these containers was that would provide a common framework that would be useful in moving cargo and getting ad-hoc structures set up, whether they be stations, bases, temporary starports, what have you. Taking a page from my day job (I work in IT) I decided to make the containers multiple of a set dimension, like with rackmount equipment. So, the cargo containers are based off a 30m wide, 15 m deep hexagonal prism. A container that's 45 m long is referred to a 3 Cargo Unit container or a 3CU module. The beauty of the system is that you can configure it in a variety of ways and there's a large market for kits that convert these containers into habitats, cheap ships, hangers, or whatever else you could need a big, box for. A tramp freighter is just as likely to be made using a cargo container as a core of the structure as it is to care a cargo container.
Anyway, that's a rambling peek behind the curtain, I've got a lot of ideas in my head.
Looks like something in the benthic depths of Europa,
Thanks for introducing me to a new word today.