Here's the Storm Eagle i'm working on, modelled after the original Forgeworld design, which again is more or less a (prettier) redesign of Games Workshop's Stormraven. I intend to do the complete interior as well.
I use Google Sketchup for modelling and Deep Exploration for rendering.
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Good modelling sir. Keep posting.
I probably won't do the Storm Talon, the shapes are a little too complex for my skills and i really don't like it's design. Like the Stormraven, it just looks way too... squat. Like the model *had* to be squeezed in a sprue of a certain size. The Stormraven on the other hand i could do, since it already shares many parts with the Storm Eagle.
Ok here's the door i did for the bulkhead:
short question, can you tell me how you did that animation in Sketchup?
Err, short answer: i didn't.
Long answer: i made 10 screenshots with printscreen and made an animated gif in Photoshop.
How to spot when someone may have outgrown their current software package and needs to move on to something more powerful
I'm sure everyone on this forum paid full commercial price for their 3ds Max and Maya... and then paid in full again for legit licences for the latest Adobe creative suite... Mhmm... Yup.
Or they used non-commercial student licenses which are available for cheap for most industry standard software.
I'm not even going to suggest any other options for obtaining the software.
Now me, I use
[url=htp://www.blender.org]Blender[/url], free and open source. Because I am a filthy, low life, scummy, entry-level commercially non-viable hipster douchebag.
And 4 grand is stupidly expensive. A student-licensed copy of lightwave is ca.$100.
But all this software is on his PC, so i can't do much more than minor changes and renders.
I've tried Blender, but it doesn't feel intuitive to me somehow. I have to search minutes for the most trivial operations, but maybe that's just me.
As for Sketchup, i was just fooling around a bit and was surprised how easily and quickly you could knock together complex meshes, as long as it doesn't have too many curved surfaces that is.