Airplane Study

ely862me · 18 May 2009, 10:40

Bravooo!

Daniel · 18 May 2009, 19:16

I'm blown away by your model, Eric.

boofredlay · 18 May 2009, 21:30

Thanks again everyone. Hopefully a render will be coming from me soon.

tomislavm · 19 May 2009, 08:10

Fantastic render, 5+!

sepo · 19 May 2009, 08:54

Great model Boo...fantastic amount of deatail....Solo that is really nice render...and 17min. is just amazing.

david_h · 19 May 2009, 14:39

In the Words of Howard Hughes in the Movie "The Rocketeer"

"The Sonuvabh" will fly!"***

IdahoJ · 19 May 2009, 16:31

Very cool! The only thing missing is the "prop disk"...

boofredlay · 19 May 2009, 18:17

Thanks, however there is not a propeller. See here:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=155314#p155314

JHuman · 19 May 2009, 20:17

I love these models. Could you explain a little on how you modeled the body and the wings, thats what I am stumped on from looking at the wireframes. Great job, thanks!

boofredlay · 19 May 2009, 20:36

Thanks. Those shapes were simple really. Just a cylinder for the body, using the scale tool on segments about the cylinder. And for the wings I made a profile and pushed the shape, scaled one side, pushed again, scaled or rotated...

Hope this helps.

JHuman · 19 May 2009, 20:40

OK, that makes sense, I guess I was confused from the amount of triangles in the wireframes. I thought you used the sandbox tool. I have never used the sandbox tool to create that clean of shapes, only landscape. Thanks for the reply.

boofredlay · 20 May 2009, 16:01

Ok, here is a first run at rendering this "Big Bird".

Shiny out of the box...

Dantheman · 20 May 2009, 17:08

the third one is epic

boofredlay · 20 May 2009, 17:09

Thanks Bruce.
Well the original author called it "Big Bird" so I think I will stick with that.

Edit: Thanks Dan.

solo · 20 May 2009, 17:09

Spud?

liam887 · 20 May 2009, 17:10

yeah that third image in the clouds is good, is it finished yet?

boofredlay · 20 May 2009, 17:12

No, this was just a first try. I may even do multiple color schemes and what not.

liam887 · 20 May 2009, 17:17

A sharks teeth WW2 paint scheme would look pretty good you up for that?

mike d · 20 May 2009, 17:54

eric
that really looks good.

solo · 20 May 2009, 22:50

Big Bird flies!

I did a few short animations, compiled it quickly with basic 'ol Windows movie maker, slapped on an audio track and we have the Big Bird music video.

If I had more time I'd have done better clean up and editing.

Sit back, crank up the sound (earphones would be best) and see Erics baby go.

[flash=640,480:3vf4cxn1]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4755201&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1[/flash:3vf4cxn1]

Modeled in SU by Boofredlay, textured and animated with Vue 7 infinite.