Fennius

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!).

Test animation following AlaskanFX 's very excellent tutorial (even if I went insane because I couldn't get it to behave like theirs!) along with my first attempt at poking Davinci Resolve

Loophole wrote: »

Really love this design, got any close-up 3D of it?

I do!

Couple of them posted in other threads, but I have a deviant art gallery for it and a couple of test renders on youtube

https://www.deviantart.com/fennius/gallery/88114818/uss-astraea

Excalibor wrote: »

Fennius wrote: »

Pheylan wrote: »

Really, really nice. I like the first version the best.

What program did you use to draw these if I may ask?

So I absolutely cheated, I took the blender model I made and played with the wireframe settings following as youtube tutorial I found If you set it to minimum it largely just follows the hard edges, and then it just needed tweaking and compositing in photoshop

Great looking schematics, indeed! I think I also like the first version more than the others. The last one is also nice, but it's harder on the eyes, so the first one wins... :-)

May I ask for that tutorial? My own designs will surely benefit a lot from this technique. Thanks a bunch!

Here we go, it doesn't actually give you a transparant wireframe so what I did was set it to black, and also set the background to black and removed the grid so all I was seeing was the wireframe. Poking the slider for it changes the numebr of faces highlighted