Fennius

Named after a Sagan quote, haven't done a proper space image in.....ye gods a long time, and I while I have a tendency to never finish a model and not be at a high standard on my modelling skill, I did used to like a good photoshop space background back in the day and I discovered Blenderkit had a free Enterprise D model so that solved that. A few tutorials later to make better space things, and I have dewfinitely levlled up from when i last did this....about 10 years ago/






Enterprise by Joachim Bornemann

Been working on this ship and finally just about finished her, for now named the USS Astraea, though I don't think I'll use that as a class name. Also found a good tutorial for gas giants, though I touched up the atmospheric glow in photoshop

Provisionally making these more steel blue with red dome units 'Assault Daleks' just because I like how they look and want an excuse to use them more. That said in this lighting they come out way more bright silver than blue.

Dalek model and fog is mine, everything else is a blenderk
it asset, especially the cityscape by Ryder Booth https://www.instagram.com/ryderb_photography/ Touched up in photoshop to change up the lighting.

Three high ranking Daleks having a tea party, now with a materials library to make the render look *considerably* better. Red is still a little bright for my personal tastes but this was basically a spur of the moment image



I have to say the hammered copper effect on the walls *works* for me for that Cushing-esque aesthetic

So this was a spur of the moment scene after seeing a similar one on deviant art, and I decided to do my own take on it with my old dalek models, and the saucer recoloured to blue and silver.

Frame rate fixed up, camera motions are a little jerky but this largely started as atest on cutting down render speeds

Right here we go, a full animation worthy enough to not be called a test:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LppsL3tH9kI



Still a little janky in places, especially as what seemed a nice smooth pace in the previews in blender turned out to be waaaay too fast, so I had to selectively slow bits, messing with the frame rate, but I've started messing with davinci resolve for some basic editing and it seems to have worked out acceptably.



There's a couple of small changes to the ships actually, I ever so slightly tweaked the depth on the hull texture and added a rough clearcoat so it catches the light better, I slightly darkened the red of the bussards, and I fixed the vane rotation glitch (although with the frame rates slowed you can't actually see it in the flyby scene - next time!).

This turned out better than I honestly expected. 1,284 daleks in the scene, though 1,280 of those are low poly mockups I originally created as a scale marker. Which is pretty consistent with classic Doctor Who actually