This is merely Bryce 4, I get a lot of downtime at work so I play around. No Meatballs, but I'm considering taking it home and meat-balling it a bit! No post, these are just quick renders... Any suggestions, ideas? The inspiration comes from Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Cycle series of books, arguably the most hardcore sci-fi books on the planet. Anyone who enjoys hyperspatial theory would love them! This is my rendition of the alien (amnion) craft called Calm Horizons, a huge warship. Any input would be appreciated!

And here's the rear shot...

Cool. looks semi-organic like some of those freaky deep-sea fish

...and I love hyper-spatial theory! (still trying to figure out how to fold that tesseract right ;-)

For some reason it reminds me of the pleasure ship from The Fifth Element. I like it.

Very original looking spaceship. Great textures!

I like it. Marc Vestabule would be proud! What about putting Billingate in the background? :) For a long time the Gap books were the best sci-fi I'd read, until I chanced upon Peter F Hamilton's Reality Disfunction trilogy (The Reality Disfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God). If you've never read them you really need to - completely astonishing, a mix of ultra hard-core sci-fi and primal horror. I read all 3,000+ pages in 2 weeks, then read them again!

Aye, I will definitely check it ouy, tuttle... And good idea, I'll probably put Billingate in the background. That should be much easier to model than this ship was...

The textures are astounding!! Really first class work here...excellent.

Another, updated version with a bit of post (KPT6-Equalizer). Anything I should add, though? I mean, from a modeling aspect? (aside from engine flare...)

And another silly, updated version... I took it home, ran it through some Bryce 5 and some nasty filters. I can't imagine animating it with this many filter, although I know it's possible with After Effects, for example. I've tried incorporating Photoshop filters into Bryce-made lenses, but the effects are only marginal compared to "true" postwork.

And last, don't worry I'm just about sick of this ship too! Just the model, with a clay-ey texture. Spotlight-array for the shading (76 lights). It's a simple model, really. The materials make up most of the detail. Just playing with multi-replicate and positioning/relations techniques inside Bryce. It IS perfectly symmetrical along it's long axis, although from this angle it doesn't really seem so...!

Impressive! And all the shots you posted make almost a mini-tut... thanx a lot! S.

Very imaginative modelling!

You have a fantastic looking ship there. When are you gonna make an animation with it?

Very imaginative concept. Most of the views look like the ship is about to enter hyperspace........vgw

Hyperspace rules. I'll make an image of it doing just that, Bryster...!