markmassey

Looking at filling in the rather neglected underside of the ship... added a couple of Docking hatches on the sides of the secondary hull... and added some cargo bays on the upper sections of the ship.... Progress which is a good thing.. Hopefully i'll get time to sit and learn how to use Arnold properly at some point...

As Usual i start by saying had some spare time!!!!! But worked a little on this ship over the weekend so just thought i'd drop some updates here.... she's getting there.... slowly haha..

Thought I'd post a couple of test renders I've done... having fun playing with Arnold at the minute... looking at shaders now.... But I'm going to have to stop procrastinating at some point and swing round to looking at the bow of the ship.. and the top half of the primary hull.....

Worked on the panel lines on the under side this afternoon..

Well it's been a while, but I've spent a couple of hours tonight re working the detail on the dorsal area around the torpedo launchers.. Sculpted the recess areas on the the main hull.. also added another dip at the top where the bridge dome is going to be..

Hay Guys been a while since I've posted anything, but taken a break from not finishing my farscape or star trek models and had a play with the Toon shader in Arnold.. Had some fun making this ship from an old 90's cartoon called Buck O'Hare.. Just to prove to myself that i can finish a 3d model lol...

Progress!!!

Still working on the back end of the ship.. Amateur hour here with the screen grabs. Worked on placing the impulse engine and the detail around the shuttle bay.

Ok here we go..... version 14 of Moya from Farscape... I'm not sure how far I'm going to get with her this time but I'm pretty confident.. I've been wrestling with the shape of the main body for a while now... and after spending far too much time capturing screen grabs for reference when I should have been working...... I'm pretty happy that it's close enough for me to move on with....

I know there's not much to look at right now, but I thought putting it up here would spur me on a little... instead of what I usually do and open the file and think hhmmm well that's wrong and hitting delete...

Managed to get some time on this today... nothing too impressive.. just working on the detail on the underside of the secondary hull... looking for where the best place for the aft torpedo launcher and tractor emitters etc, planning on cutting into sections of the hull and exposing some slight greeble detail..

Sooooo.... have to say i've been inspired by some of the excellent model work on here to go back and take a look at a ship i've been toying with for.... well lets just say a while...

I've been refining a few niggles i had with the hull sweep and the lines of geometry on warp fins... But the big step was i've laid out some plating on the underside... now for some reason this is the part that i really struggle with.. so i'm pretty impressed that i've done something that i feel happy with.. as basic as it is.... I think its a good start... and hopefully i'll get some momentum on this..

Now the next job is learning how to use arnold... as maya has ditched mental ray since i last rendered anything...