The Art of SketchUp - part 2: Sci-Fi

ken28875

Sharing some old student projects.

Modelled in Sketchup and exported into Studio Max for texturing and rendering.

Have a great day,

_KN

numbthumb

Wow...Stuff like this makes me feel totally incompetent. Congratulations, Ken!
BTW whats´ wrong with the girl´s leg?

liam887

@ken28875 said:

@liam887 said:

epic, my work is in today so ill celebrate not having time to enter the competition by making one for fun anyway, wish me luck!
looks great by the way, you far exceeded my expectations on this job!

Hi Liam,

Thanks for your kind words. Honestly, I wasn't sure where I was going and how the model would end up looking like. I just kept on working, adding details and figuring out at the same time how to model some parts of the starship. It's kind of a trial and error since it is the first time I did such a big detailed model.

Glad to hear you did finish yours. Which one was it by the way? Could you please send me the link?

Best,

_KN

ahh no you misheard I never submitted but im going to make one anyway just for fun as I have more free time now and no looming deadlines I just posted some pre-lim work but its subject to change. I think I want the ship vertical orientated and change the whole design but still keeping some of the core components I have still modeled.

ken28875

EVE Online Contest

The 15 finalists were chosen and I am quite disappointed with the judging.

I did not even get in!

Lots of people commented and disagreed with the chosen ones.

You can see them here:

http://news.deviantart.com/article/133308/

Oh, well...it was not a waste of time for me as it was quite a great experience working on my starship and improving my Sketchup modeling skills.

Thanks for all your kind comments and support during the 3 weeks I was working on the Starship.

Regards,

_KN

dolphus

Ken I had a look at the other entrants and I must say I am astounded that your ship was not included, one can only wonder what the "judges" are smoking, in my opinion I would have been disappointed if you were not voted No 1, you been robbed......

ken28875

Hey there,

Here's a personal project I did a couple of years ago.

Buildings and cars are modeled in Sketchup and the rest as well as the final render was done in Photoshop.

Have a great one,

_KN

michaliszissiou

So the creature is a 2d painting?
Well done, you need a sculpture app Ken. Its time to involved with this.
I could work some more on shadows, a hard-light overlay of a wall-plaster-painted tex could do the GI trick.

orgelf

the Giant Spaceship is clearly a Masterpiece

incredible !!

thanks for posting

Ghalko

So about that awesome spaceship:

Another chance has come up, very similar rules but this time all Eve community feedback. http://www.evecontest.com/finalvote/

I might try but a 3 week window is really too small for someone with many ideas but no solid spaceship experience such as myself. Hope you resubmit, it would get my vote.

Let me know if I should post a separate thread or something.

ken28875

@michaliszissiou said:

So the creature is a 2d painting?
Well done, you need a sculpture app Ken. Its time to involved with this.
I could work some more on shadows, a hard-light overlay of a wall-plaster-painted tex could do the GI trick.

@ Michalis: Yes, the creature is 2D painted in Photoshop. I have Z-brush on my computer but never had the time to practice. It is certainly on my list to do (or should I say to learn). You mentioned about 3D Coat. I will take a look. Thanks!

@orgelf said:

the Giant Spaceship is clearly a Masterpiece
incredible !!
thanks for posting

@ Orgelf: Merci beaucoup. Glad you like it.

@ghalko said:

So about that awesome spaceship:

Another chance has come up, very similar rules but this time all Eve community feedback. http://www.evecontest.com/finalvote/

I might try but a 3 week window is really too small for someone with many ideas but no solid spaceship experience such as myself. Hope you resubmit, it would get my vote.

Let me know if I should post a separate thread or something.

@ Ghalko: Wow, that is pretty cool. Thanks for the notice. How did you hear about it? I will certainly submit my starship again. Thanks for you vote.

To Liam: Are you there? If you are reading this, you now have a chance to enter. But I guess you might be busy with school lately. I have not seen you in the forum for a while. Anyway, hope all is well and that you will be able to enter the contest.

Have a great day everyone!

_KN

My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
Sketchup for Sci-Fi Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27030

Ghalko

I heard about it because I play the game. It would be nice to see some more ships out there.

There are some NPC corporations or factions that don't have any ships to their credit. Sisters of Eve (careful with any web searches) is a humanitarian faction that does rescues and relief efforts, but it really doesn't have any of its own ships. Something along the lines of white ships with red (like the red cross) decals. The ship(s) wouldn't have to be quite as complex as your awesome one so they might not take as long.

One thing I noticed is that even though the rules are similar it definitely sounds like the 6 views plus the one colored (hopefully rendered) one is all they want. Also it is a bit more of how the ship would fit into the game so that whole Sisters of Eve thing might not be a good way to go. So if you want ideas just let me know.

ken28875

@ Bryan/Ghalko: Please check your private message and get back to me when you have time.

Hi guys,

ASGVIS/V-Ray for Sketchup just had a Featured Artist article about me.

You can read it here:
http://software.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=886&Itemid=466&utm_source=Publicaster&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Winning%20Subject&utm_term=Read%20more%20about%20Ken%20Nguyen

There are a couple images that were mainly done for the interview and not posted anywhere else. Here's one of them:

I have been working on a few more but did not have time to finish them. I will post them later.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

_KN

My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
Sketchup for Sci-Fi Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27030

SketchUpNoobie

Looking at all the pictures of that ship actually made me feel a bit nauseous. The fact that you didn't even get in the top 15 made me even more sick. And this made it in before you? That's just wrong.

"Wow" doesn't do your models justice. I was going to maybe post my sci-fi temple, but now? Excellent work!!!

liam887

@ken28875 said:

@michaliszissiou said:

So the creature is a 2d painting?
Well done, you need a sculpture app Ken. Its time to involved with this.
I could work some more on shadows, a hard-light overlay of a wall-plaster-painted tex could do the GI trick.

@ Michalis: Yes, the creature is 2D painted in Photoshop. I have Z-brush on my computer but never had the time to practice. It is certainly on my list to do (or should I say to learn). You mentioned about 3D Coat. I will take a look. Thanks!

@orgelf said:

the Giant Spaceship is clearly a Masterpiece
incredible !!
thanks for posting

@ Orgelf: Merci beaucoup. Glad you like it.

@ghalko said:

So about that awesome spaceship:

Another chance has come up, very similar rules but this time all Eve community feedback. http://www.evecontest.com/finalvote/

I might try but a 3 week window is really too small for someone with many ideas but no solid spaceship experience such as myself. Hope you resubmit, it would get my vote.

Let me know if I should post a separate thread or something.

@ Ghalko: Wow, that is pretty cool. Thanks for the notice. How did you hear about it? I will certainly submit my starship again. Thanks for you vote.

To Liam: Are you there? If you are reading this, you now have a chance to enter. But I guess you might be busy with school lately. I have not seen you in the forum for a while. Anyway, hope all is well and that you will be able to enter the contest.

Have a great day everyone!

_KN

My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
Sketchup for Sci-Fi Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27030

Ahhhhhh i wish I had seen this have been so busy I would have submitted again oh well something similar will come up again one day I guess!
on another note I am back while the holidays are on trying to make a shield helicarrier form the iron man marvel universe as the film is out next year!

numbthumb

Can´t believe I missed this -leaves me speechless!
Unlimited imagination plus some serious 3D skills ... a killer combination! Bravo, maestro!

ken28875

Sorry I missed some replies.

@unknownuser said:

:shock: Looking at all the pictures of that ship actually made me feel a bit nauseous. The fact that you didn't even get in the top 15 made me even more sick. And this made it in before you? That's just wrong.

"Wow" doesn't do your models justice. I was going to maybe post my sci-fi temple, but now? Excellent work!!!

@ SketchupNoobie: Thanks, John. I really appreciate your support. Yeah, I was very disappointed by the whole thing.

@liam887 said:

Ahhhhhh i wish I had seen this have been so busy I would have submitted again oh well something similar will come up again one day I guess!
on another note I am back while the holidays are on trying to make a shield helicarrier form the iron man marvel universe as the film is out next year!

@ Liam: I resubmitted a revised simplified version to the new contest. However, it seems like people are getting angry and confused this time too. Nobody has heard from CCP and the voting was supposed to start already. Oh well...

I saw your helicarrier in your thread. Very cool. Looking forward to seeing the finished model.

ken28875

Hi guys,

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

@numbthumb said:

Can´t believe I missed this -leaves me speechless!
Unlimited imagination plus some serious 3D skills ... a killer combination! Bravo, maestro!

@ numbthumb: Thank you for you nice comment.

A friend a mine asked me about the wireframe Sketchup of the Jaguar XJ 220 that I did a render earlier.

I would usually use orthos to build it. But due to time constraint (I was in a rush to finish it for the ASGVIS-V-Ray interview), I downloaded a model from the warehouse that was really low poly but had the dimensions and proportions that I needed to build my hi poly model on top of it. I also used some images for reference.