Adam Warnock

So, I finally settled on a project to get going on. I figure cargo ships should get some more love since so much of the attention goes to the warships. I'm basing the model off of a LEGO ship made by Soren Roberts that you can see below:
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.

Current Project:



Original Post:
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.

Redid the the twistlocks and added in the frame.


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.

Some doodles done based on what @Viper said he wanted his design language to invoke. I'm gonna be honest and admit that I phoned it in on that last one. It's based off of @Daemoria 's needleships that he did some time back (Has it really been years?) and I just gave up on having it not look wonky after fixing the nose.


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.

Thanks! I don't this this piece is going to get as much praise, though.

She's looking good. Almost ready to swat some whalers.

Just some things I've been working on over the weekend.
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.

Funny how you go to make a greeble and you go and make it way too detailed. Oh well.

Woo! I've enjoyed seeing your journey throughout this thread, @Rekkert, and I have to agree with what others have said that you have a talent for designing interiors.

Anyway, back to topic at hand, those consoles look like they are just designed to evoke a certain aesthetic without a lot of thought put into how someone's supposed to use the things. I get the client wants to evoke that shape, so not much to do except maybe shrinking it down or talking with the client about tweaks to make them more usable while trying to keep things the same.

That said, I think you could get what you are after and have things evoke the stylings of the NX-01. I tried sketching out some top-down views of the console to see if I could do anything with that shape.

Nice. She's looking good. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.