It's been a long time since I have posted here. Well about a year ago I started modeling the Icarus 2 from the movie Sunshine (2007) but ran into difficulties during the modeling process and decided to shelve the project for the time being. About two weeks ago I was on vacation and decided to look at taking up modeling on the ship again, with all the new tricks and techniques I have learned in the year since I shelved the project....
I took one look at my old mesh and scrapped it entirely! This is a completely new build, with an emphasis on realism and accuracy and
DETAIL!
I'm still trying to get the lighting down, which is difficult as this ship was portrayed in deep shadow behind the shield, yet still 'viewable'.
I hope you guys like it!
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Beautiful work!
Thank you very much!
oh and, St. Pete! How ya doin!
Thank you! Oh cool Tampa! That's where I grew up, part of the time anyway between traveling. We lived on Davis Islands
Thank you!
Thank you Tobian. Well I am striving for details to where we should be able to take paint samples lol! Yikes!
This weekend I will be modeling the large main shield, which of course has a massive amount of light coming from the structure, this of course will lend shadows/color/light to this part of the ship depicted here. Once that is done I will have to come back to the lighting on this section to adjust for an overall effect.
Thank you Tobian - this will be detailed enough to get REAL close
Thank you - the Valley Forge was one of my favorite ships growing up, one of these days I would love to model her...
Thank you!
Different strokes for different folks, my friend.
Your Icarus II looks awesome. I think in the movie both are carbon copies of each other.