The Art of SketchUp - part 2: Sci-Fi

ely862me

DUUUDE!!!.....

michaliszissiou

Exactly
Wow ken.

d12dozr

Fantastic, Ken. Just fantastic

liam887

I wish I had never told you now haha

That looks bloody amazing from all the entries I have seen you deserve to win by far I can see this in the game for sure the eve guys and fans will love it good luck hopefully ill get all my deadlines behind me and aim for second place!

pilou

Amazing!
Any statistics about nbs faces? Components, Groups?

Solidseal

Render it

Amazing work .
Maybe I missed it but do you have a name for it ?

dale

Been really enjoying this thread. Thought I would post this as an inspiration for you to keep visualizing, as we may need them sooner than we think.

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ken28875

@liam887 said:

I wish I had never told you now haha

That looks bloody amazing from all the entries I have seen you deserve to win by far I can see this in the game for sure the eve guys and fans will love it good luck hopefully ill get all my deadlines behind me and aim for second place!

Hi Liam,

Haha...too late now, I am in...j/k Thanks for your kind words and I wish you will finish yours and enter it on time.

@unknownuser said:

Amazing!
Any statistics about nbs faces? Components, Groups?

Salut Pilou,

Desole, I don't keep track of polycount, components and groups. But I can assure you that there are tons of them.

ok, so last night was not quite productive. My little princess was not able to sleep and cried due to teething. Then after I sooth her back to sleep, I went out to take a break on the sofa, but fell asleep. LOL

I guess my body was so tired from all the lack of sleep from the past week and needed to shut down. Well, it's good. I needed to recharge.

I woke up at 6am, just an hour before getting ready to go to work. I had time to only block the other part of the ship that could be another smaller ship on its own.

Below are the 6 views (front, back, left, right, top, and bottom) that are required for the submission.

So my plan is to enter them as well as have another entry with all the perspective and close up of the starship.

All of them are still WIP and I have lots to do (adding details, panels on the hulls, etc.). I will also have interior of some docks for little starfighters or something.

Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful day!

_KN

liam887

yeah your going to have to think of a good name now! Well my deadline just in so time to start on this beast over the weekend, looking really good. For the 6 views have you tried to turn edges and hidden geo off and do a view in monochrome with profiles on or edges?

liam887

yeah I think a render overlaid in PS with some fancy blending might go down a treat however I am wary as they request line art only? still got two weeks before deadline so see what everybody else is doing first I know a lot of people wont post till the end also. Im sure it will look fine my plan is to do plain black and white line art and then do a digital paint of one of an orthographic view.

ken28875

@ Solidseal: I won't have any colored rendering as the contest does not require it (just option). Therefore i will mainly focus on the crazy details of the model. I will probably do a some colored illustrations when i have time after the contest is over.

I don't have a name yet. But it will be part of one of the races from the EVE universe. Maybe I should start a thread so people can give vote and suggest for a name for that starship. lol

@ Dale: Thanks, I am glad you've been enjoying this thread. Maybe they will build my starship to go to Planet "G" in the future.

@ Liam: Glad to know you will be able to do something for the contest. Best of luck!
Yes, I will turn off the hidden lines. What I meant to say was that the contest requires 6 views, but did not say these are my final entries. LOL Thanks for pointing that out though. honestly, I don't know how the final submission and presentation will look like. But something like this below or do some Vray renders with lines overlaid on top like the previous perspective renders might be the way to go.

artysmedia

I think I need an electron microscope to see all the details you've put
Like the render style

ken28875

@liam887 said:

yeah I think a render overlaid in PS with some fancy blending might go down a treat however I am wary as they request line art only? still got two weeks before deadline so see what everybody else is doing first I know a lot of people wont post till the end also. Im sure it will look fine my plan is to do plain black and white line art and then do a digital paint of one of an orthographic view.

Hello Liam,

How is it going with your starship?

I think i will focus mainly on my high detailed model with the 6 views in black/white lines for the main submission. I will also submit another one with renders of different views and details like the ones below. I don't think I will have time to do a colored render. since it is just an option, I don't think it will be a big deal. There are many entries (most of the nice ones actually) that have great colored renders, but the 6 views are so simple and even lack the details. Since the judges will mainly look at the orthogonal views, I want to show some very nice detailed views.

Here are some more views of the WIP from last night or this morning since It's past 6am and I am still awake.

I added a lot more details, but still have to finish some parts that are still empty. But it's getting there.

Thanks for viewing and have a great friday and weekend!

_KN

You have to zoom in very closely to see these details:

pilou

There is a bolt missing!

EscapeArtist

WOW! That detail is amazing!

michaliszissiou

@pilou
@ken
great work. I'm not sure if this can help but here an asteroid like. Use it if you like
http://www.mediafire.com/?d54364rm2uv4rmx

dolphus

Ken it was obvious when you posted the first views of the ship that this was going to be special....well you did not disappoint.....it is magnificent....a benchmark ...very well done... ......next???????

ken28875

@ artysmedia/Roberto: Thank you. I used Vray and overlay with Sketchup lines.

@ Pilou:

@unknownuser said:

:shock:
There is a bolt missing!

LOL....but it's true...there is a missing bolt! Pilou has the eye of an eagle. I will ask the engineering crew on board of the ship to fix it.

@ Michalis: Thank you very much for your asteroid, but I will probably not use it this time as I won't have time to do a colored render. I might use it in the future though.

@ Escape artist/Jeff: Glad you like the details. Thanks.

@ Coen: Thanks for your comment. Hope all is well in Rotterdam.

Here are the latest WIP with more details added. One more week to go. Deadline for the contest is next Wednesday. I have the back (top and bottom) to finish.

I run into a problem when rendering with Vray. It worked when it's half of the ship. But when I mirrored the model to have a both sides, Sketchup and Vray crashed. Maybe they cannot handle such a big and intensive polycount.

Anyway, thanks for viewing. Have a terrific day!

_KN