japetus

Did some texturing in Painter of the large fuselage areas and platform. I think a few more greebles and the top super structure need some texture, then it'll be good!

And got more greebles done today!

ok you're probably all sick of seeing the Rising Star..i know i am...i fiddled with some streaky alpha maps i made in Designer, tinted some more ...and made the ship more blue like it should be and tried a bit less roughness. What do ya'll think? Feeling pretty good that i can leave it for a while...panels

Just added some shapes that looked like they were pretty close to what was there. Like you said, very hard to tell!

Thought I'd pull out this old model and refresh it a bit...using vray, ACES workflow, modern texture workflow, models and a lot of other things I learned from 12 years ago, holy crap! Anywho, looking good.... I think next I'll have To put in some real interiors...

Testing out Vray 6's new Clouds feature. Unfortunately you can't seem to look at them from above, but they are really great and fast!

Modeling pretty much done...filled in some of the huge gaps...worked on the front. What a weird ship! Needs some textures next

Dont know how far I'll get, but came along a ton of reference photos for the original BSG colonial fleet as well as hi rez zoic renders from the remake. I'll be focused on the fleet. And there is a lot of crossover with the remake as well, so I'll be focused on trying to get those ships made. There's also a bit of wiggle room as to which ships are which between the 2 fleets. We'll see what happens!

Latest:

First up is the Rising Star and some flat top tug.

This image is mostly a test using UDIMs for the first time. I textured with Painter. In the end though I will be modeling the many panels.






A modeling test of the panels on the tail

Worked on more greeble areas and nooks and crannies. Ever closer! For real..i can feel it. Spent a bit of time today moving areas around cuz I zoomed out for once and realized things were out of proportion. Think it's about as close as it's gonna get w/o me dying.

Ok...been super busy but I haven't forgotten! I've been trying to finish up the back in fits and spurts. I think I finally did it, added a few of my own greebles from my Rodger Young model too (so useful!) But tried to stay true to the filming model. Pretty happy! Just a few little things left to do around the ship before I texture..