Scifi Sketchup Modeling

liam887 · 7 May 2009, 07:46

Posted the tutorial, just a quick job I did last night http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18866
Its over in the tutorials section...enjoy

dolphus · 7 May 2009, 09:34

liam887 !!! Fantastic work thanks for posting, I am the last person in the world to talk about rendering, but why don't you give Kerkythea a try , it,s free and i find it a great thrill to see a model come to "life", your 2d images are great don't stop doing them

liam887 · 7 May 2009, 09:40

Im having a lot of trouble getting it to work on my MAC . I have 3dsmax8 & lightwave through Uni so I can render in them however I feel illustrating my models gives a more personal touch and sets them aside from renders? I also prefer the look of them compared with renders (renders that I can do anyway, im sure in somebody elses hands my models would look far better rendered by somebody who know what they where doing lol).

dolphus · 7 May 2009, 14:23

I hear what you are saying and strength to you as i said please keep on posting you work is a joy to look at thanks

liam887 · 6 Oct 2009, 22:12

well its been a while but I thought id post this orbital elevator ive been working on as part of my Halo Project. It still needs a lot of work but so far so good!

liam887 · 6 Oct 2009, 22:17

ahh forgot I had this better render I did earlier.

pilou · 6 Oct 2009, 23:14

I always forget to click on the images for have the Zoom!
Cool star city details

liam887 · 7 Oct 2009, 01:08

Thanks its not a city just the base of the elevator. I came across a piece of concept art for the recently released Halo ODST and thought id give it a shot, its far from finished, once ive got it all roughed out il get in close and add the details!
Ive got an animation module coming up in Uni in a couple of months so hopefully ill have enough halo stuff ready for a good animation in Max!

dolphus · 7 Oct 2009, 04:23

Nice clean modeling looks to be an interesting project well done

Marian · 7 Oct 2009, 08:05

Liam strikes again .

Ultimatez 32 · 7 Oct 2009, 09:38

great work liam! those are great podium renders. I'm trying to make sci-fi myself, but somehow I can't do that yet....

liam887 · 7 Oct 2009, 10:56

Thanks for the buildongs man they will be useful, updates to follow soon!

What seems to be the proble, ultimatez? If anything scifi is easier as you can just make stuff up when you get stuck lol! You should join scifi meshes, you will get lots of help & inspiration over there!

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liam887 · 10 Oct 2009, 15:06

Thanks Everyone

Well decided to go fullwhack and make the whole city then animate it all! So the base station for the elevator is pretty much finished now just have to make the bridges and train lines. Anyway here it is at about 98% complete. The Carrier was ripped from the Halo 2 game.

Marian · 10 Oct 2009, 20:32

Hey look, I can see my building from here . (i know it's not in there just thought i shouldn't waste the joke though )

liam887 · 11 Oct 2009, 01:38

lol well not in that render anyway but dont worry its there. You should have waited haha.
I had to get rid of some of the detail as it was too poly heavy (ive got the whole city docks to do)and I made it a bit thinner as it was too fat for its location , but thanks again its going to be good and fits in well.

Also did one of the ODST pods that will be crashing down into the city, nearly finished.

The dock building marked TRAXUS is from halo 3 and made by UGV2 ive messaged him to see if I can use it for my model but no reply so far, ill wait a bit longer otherwise ill just have to make it myself.

Marian · 11 Oct 2009, 08:33

Nice work
All looks great.

liam887 · 12 Oct 2009, 03:05

thanks man, well ready to unwrap and texture now methinks, its taken 3 days but I do love the pod model!

liam887 · 20 Oct 2009, 01:24

Dont know what this is yet started doing some stuff for Uni and it turned into this lol, i should really work on my train of thought!
Im learning new things from this site all the time and every model I do seems better than the last, glad I was told about this site!

liam887 · 20 Oct 2009, 18:13

did some more work on it today while bored in lectures>>> There are a lot of small details that just dont show in podium renders is there a way to refine it somehow maybe change the light settings so you can see everything? Or do I have to just scale up the render size?