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3DLewis' Galaxy Class

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  • darkthunderdarkthunder408 SwedenPosts: 102Member
    Freak wrote: »
    It was clocked. Otherwise how does it become a penal colony in Voyager. (That was where Tom Paris was doing his time.)

    I'd just chalk that up to a mistake by the Visual FX team.

    Also, Paris was serving at the Penal Colony ca 2371. First Contact takes place in 2373. Maybe New Zealand sunk?
  • kadenkaden799 JapanPosts: 219Member
    We do have a supervolcano disguised as the largest lake so maybe... lol
  • BrandenbergBrandenberg1655 CaliforniaPosts: 1,937Member
    Man, such a beautiful ship! I'm going to short out my keyboard if I keep drooling like this.
  • markmasseymarkmassey512 StaffordshirePosts: 586Member
    she's looking glorious.......
  • FreakFreak1088 Posts: 4,361Member
    Freak wrote: »
    It was clocked. Otherwise how does it become a penal colony in Voyager. (That was where Tom Paris was doing his time.)

    I'd just chalk that up to a mistake by the Visual FX team.

    Also, Paris was serving at the Penal Colony ca 2371. First Contact takes place in 2373. Maybe New Zealand sunk?

    I would accept that, except they went back in time to the late 21 century and just after World War III ended.
    New Zealand clocked itself so it would not take part in WWIII, they only stopped using it when the Federation Banned the use of clocking devices.


    But in reality, you right. it an FX mistake.
  • Vortex5972Vortex5972321 Posts: 1,202Member
    Can we not assume that NZ was destroyed in WW3 and there was a reconstruction effort over the following century after first contact with the Vulcan's?
  • lennier1lennier1913 Posts: 1,280Member
    Freak wrote: »
    But in reality, you right. it an FX mistake.
    One guy's mistake is another guy's in-joke.
  • markmasseymarkmassey512 StaffordshirePosts: 586Member
    Maybe the compositor had just had his application to work at wetta rejected?
  • japetusjapetus2937 SeattlePosts: 1,397Member
    Gorgeous! Been inspiring to see!
    lewisniven
  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
    edited December 2020 #371
    More ventral detailing today. Very close to being geometry complete now!

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  • JeffrySGJeffrySG321 Posts: 477Member
    Beautiful looking model!
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  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
    Bit more geo today;

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  • johnl2112johnl211248 Posts: 54Member
    Lewis,

    This is amazing work. Feel free to ignore the following; while you have this lit very accurately for "screen accuracy" I was wondering if you've done any passes where its self illuminated only - also, your interiors are rendered with a kind of harsh flourescent light - would you have to rebake your interiors to change that to like a 3500k light (for some rooms...)

    I am thinking of building my own ship stealing some of your techniques (but not the designs), but plan to not match the TNG lighting (where stars are super dim, and deep space is kinda uniformly grey...) but the harsh light/shadows of actual space. For instance, are the "black windows" still rooms that are not illuminated that and would catch sunlight and be visible, or are they just "black"

    Also the texturing is screen accurate, but its accurate to "plastic model painted sorta glossy sort of matte grey" - do you plan on going for a more reflective metallic look?

    Thanks! Great inspiring work! I consider this on par with or exceeding the work Tobias Richter does model wise.
  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
    Hi @johnl2112

    Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it. The rooms are lit 'properly' if you like, but then I've tinted the glass green ever so slightly to align it with the on screen look in Generations, it's purely a stylistic thing (the glass would probably have a ton of coatings on it right?). The quarters (of which there are more on the saucer) are far warmer lit then the other rooms (corridors and a science lab which is very blue). Yesterday I took the saturation down on the rooms a smidge though.

    Unlit windows are just opaque black glass, it's far easier that way.

    I've tried quite hard to match the on screen look admittedly, as it appeared in generations, which as you say is is a 'matt plastic painted model'. The renders above have no film grain or anything applied also admittedly look a bit smooth, plus the denoiser gets a bit carried away. A film grain overlay and some post processing goes a long way to combatting that look but these are just WIP renders. The Picard intro when the other way and went VERY metallic, which in my opinion was over the top, it looks almost chrome.

    The below is a render with the roughness map also driving metalness, to give a more metallic look, with some light post processing, just to see how it'd look as you mentioned it.

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  • johnl2112johnl211248 Posts: 54Member
    @lewisniven huh, cranking the metalness is kinda weird in the absence of something to reflect -- I'll have to think about how I'll want my ship to appear. I am kinda torn between the more metal look, and a pearlescent refit connie look.
    lewisniven
  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
    It's subtle there TBF, I'm lighting with a hdri and if I crank metalness to max you can really tell the difference.
  • publiusrpubliusr550 Posts: 1,746Member
    Novel cover worthy
  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
    edited December 2020 #379
    More aztec work on the underside today.

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  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
    Aztecs around the engineering section 90% complete now. Pylons next.

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  • LeoBerlinLeoBerlin333 Posts: 2Member
    lewisniven wrote: »
    More aztec work on the underside today.

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    This is the most beautiful picture of the D I’ve ever seen!
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  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
    Thanks @LeoBerlin !

    The lesser spotted view of the top...

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  • JeffrySGJeffrySG321 Posts: 477Member
    So nice!
    lewisniven
  • Chris2005Chris2005675 Posts: 3,096Member
    There's something oddly satisfying about your Galaxy Class... lol
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  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
    Outer pylons textured, just the inner pylons to do and that's aztecs pretty much complete.

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  • Chris2005Chris2005675 Posts: 3,096Member
    Now my question is... does she separate? :P
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  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
    Chris2005 wrote: »
    Now my question is... does she separate? :P

    Lol, afraid not..I didn't model the top of the cobra of that inner section of the saucer. I think the stardrive section looks really awkward on it's own anyway tbh.
  • Chris2005Chris2005675 Posts: 3,096Member
    lewisniven wrote: »
    Chris2005 wrote: »
    Now my question is... does she separate? :P

    Lol, afraid not..I didn't model the top of the cobra of that inner section of the saucer. I think the stardrive section looks really awkward on it's own anyway tbh.

    Fair enough. haha
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  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
    Top side of the pylon aztecs done.

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  • trekkitrekki939 Posts: 1,394Member
    Your work is very good!
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  • lewisnivenlewisniven2491 UKPosts: 462Member
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