Sams spaceship design

This is my entry for our competition! Its pretty simple, no textures or advanced rendering- but I like it. In terms of modelling, I think its been sucessful but theres A LOT of room for improvement. Every time I complete one of these competitions I get a little bit better and a little bit more confident with how things are progressing, so bring on the next challenge!!

Robs spaceship design (Part 3)

…some landing gear…. :P

Rear door with some steps….

With windscreen….. proved to be a bugger… but…. Why should that have been any different to the rest of the model ay? :P
There have been a few changes since these pics.. but not a great deal. Had other things going on and its kind of taken a back seat again.

Biggest change is I added a character :P … brought in the old ROB-BOT from my final film. Depending on how things go….maybe not for this particular challenge… but at some point…. Might try animate him in the ship……we will see though…..

Erm… also added a few little bits and bobs in the interior too. Chair etc…. but still working on those bits.
…and that’s where im at with it so far. Would like to get some nice colours on to it and stuff…..but… im not exactly clued up on how to do that…..so not sure how that will turn out….

So far its probably taken…..well, its got to be over 20 hours. With restarts and mistakes and stuff. Far too long anyway… for something so simple…

Robs spaceship design (Part 2)

Another annoyingly awkward bit….making the space in the front for the window.
I didn’t plan any of this very well did i…. well…. I didn’t plan it at all…..anyway… I digress….
Point is…..when I modelled the main part of the craft i forgot to take into account the shape of the window….and….well….. the fact that there would be a window…. What a tit! …..lets just say it meant doing a fair bit of tweaking. Not really happy with it, but….once again….. frustration got the better of me and I just deleted the faces and left it at that. Bloody thing….

Anyway…..mirrored the geometry and merged it to get me ship shape all ship shape…

Did some basic cubey type shapes to create a bit of an interior….(think I changed these slightly since this version of the model…not much mind….but they are slightly different now.) .. oh yeah… theres also a gap there for the door…..that was the only bit that was straight forward :P

The aforementioned door way… with frame!…and… some groovy lil fins on th rear of the craft…

Robs spaceship design (Part 1)

This is the quick crappy sketch I used to model the space craft. Its not very imaginative or interesting….. but…. It proved a bugger to model!

Modelling part 1; tried a few different things to begin with, but finally settled on using a polygon cylinder as the basis for the craft. Manipulated that to get roughly the right shape and then used two poly spheres, deleting half the faces on each, to kind of cap off the cylinder. The wing, again, took several frustrating attempts. I tried extruding from the existing part of the model, which seemed like the obvious choice to start with, but, I just couldn’t get it right. Instead I used a poly cube as the starting point. Keeping the leading side flat, I moved the vertices closest to the main part of the craft to match them to the shape and curve of that with the intention of combining the two parts and then merging the vertices. (does that make sense?). I then extruded from the straight faces to create the wing shape. Not entirely happy with the result, but it was starting to annoy me!

Top view of the stupid bloody thing…..

After joining the wing to the ship I tried to create a kind of, erm, I guess an air intake duct. This also proved problematic. Ended up settling with what you see in the pic after spending far too long on that part…. Bloody thing…..

My Spaceship

Just a very brief WIP post on my spaceship. Both me and Rob have been pulled away from contributing fully but we're both slowly plodding away. I'm not going to say what mine is yet but I expect you'll be able to guess. If not- think of a very famous ship being caricatured!Stay tuned for more updates from both me and Rob!

-Sam