Exploration by NefariousDrO
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I've been looking at various ships I've made, trying to think about how I'd re-design them if I could start over. This was intended to be along those lines, but it's amazing to me how they just kind of take on a life of their own and lead me down very different paths than I'd originally planned. Not that this is all that big of a departure from my usual, and it certainly works in its own right.
I'm not sure if the radiator-panels are large enough, and I'm sure I need to add more radiators to the engines themselves, but over all this is a rather pleasing ship.
The model was built in Bryce, mostly with my own textures, but the engines use presets that have been modified. Engine exhausts were originally done in Bryce as well, but then modified rather heavily during post-work. The background was done in Photoshop, as was compositing and "aging down" the hull texture a bit. If you're interested, it's a texture built from using various filters, masked to the shape of the rendered ship, and then applied as an overlay to the rendered model. I also blended the ship to the background a bit (the clipping mask of the ship had edges that were far too sharp) by duplicating the rendered ship as two identical layers. The lower layer was then blurred some to make the edges "fuzzier" while not losing details of the ship itself.
Thanks for taking a look, and as usual comments/critiques and suggestions are definitely welcome!
Comments (19)
1358
very cool design, well thought out, good, solid structure, compact... too large would attract too much space debris, too small and it would kill the occupants with claustrophobia. serious, cool work!
Mutos2
Very sound, hard-science design with nonetheless a small drop of blazing grandeur from space-op !
foggywear
This is great work, can't believe it is bryce ,awesome
geirla
Great details and texture! Yeah, maybe more radiators in back. I'm try to work out how the wheel spins, or does the whole structure rotate?
peedy
Fantastic model! Corrie
Ancel_Alexandre
Nice scene, and thanks for the advices. The one to blend foreground and background will surely be really useful to me!
ia-du-lin
great modelling, fantastic looking space station
blankfrancine
For my next interstellar jaunt, I'd like to rent this ship! Awesome work,Mike.
Debwhosmiles
I think your calling is as a starship designer! You really consider things carefully and execute your ideas so well! =D
grafikeer
Great model and texturing,as usual....I like the overall design and detailing,and the blending into the background worked very well...nicely done!
bobrgallegos
Your eye for detail is awesome. Wonderful work on this outstanding space scene!!!
Dibujantte
Awesome art!!! Thanks so much. Joy!
carlx
Excellent sci-fi art!!!
dcmstarships
nice design and great background
MagikUnicorn
Gorgeous
jocko500
you do make wonderful ships. and the background do go with them so will
kjer_99
It may be a variation on a theme, but I really like this one.
RodS
You continue to just blow me away with your skill, Mike! You should be designing DSVs for NASA! This is magnificent!
KnightWolverine
When done with precision such as this...any and all redesigning just adds to the already intensiveness of the previous model.....In other words Mike....Your Designs Rock!!