Great job like always!

I did a breakdown of the layers here. Maybe 118 layers in total grouped into 10 categories here. Used Thea for the reflection pass. I will be doing illustration breakdowns and tutorials with SketchUp at basecamp if I catch any of you there.

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/009/378/963/large/liam-keating-ins9.jpg?1518638245

https://cdn-enterprise.discourse.org/sketchup/uploads/default/original/3X/2/f/2f56a3d249d292f4a9c23c9bdb52719a3a2b46fb.jpg

I just got my flights in from London, £400 direct with Norwegian great deal if anybody else is flying from UK.

Yes agreed, the deliverable for the client was just the model but I needed something poppy for my instagram, I found the red of the cut a good contrast to the red on the posters.

I also missed some of the section cuts by the doors, nooooo........ :0(

I haven't use it yet. But I find it a great idea.
Not that long ago I was talking to my 10 years old son about the possibility of giving a workshop of sketchup at his school to teach them some basic skills on drawing 3D, but since they use chromebooks in the classroom it was not possible.
Well, this web based app has make it possible!! 😄

I reckon Liam has a good chance with his entry, there is a good level of competition but hopefully he takes it.

Maersk Line Orbital freighter in Neptune orbit. Powered by eight VASIMR plasma driven engines (variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket), the freighter moves bulk cargo from low orbit to high orbit where it’s transferred to larger interplanetary freighters.

The VASIMR engine is highly efficient compared to a traditional chemical engine able to move 34 metric tons of cargo to a higher orbit for only 8 tons of expended fuel. However the trade off is that it’s incredibly slow taking months to achieve this rather than days.

Therefore crews in the haulage business will typically sign up for a 12 month round trip tour. Although this type of work does not pay very well compared to the 10+ year interstellar tours, the trade off is that you always get a good view and are no more than eight hours from a conversation with home.

https://i.redd.it/css2cvi57y201.jpg

It looks great, achieving that with what amounts to a parts bin approach says a lot about your level of talent. VERY nicely done. I hope to see more like it when you have time.

@rich o brien said:

I do something similar in Blender as tests....

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It can animate displacement so you get pretty crazy results.

Yep thats the one, nice, I didnt know you could so particle displacement in Blender but then again what cant Blender do!

If I wasn't such an idiot I would hopefully like to learn that, I am still stuck in the 2D realm of software with the exception of sketchup!

Looking good!

@hellnbak said:

I do have one question tho - how do you keep your desktop so neat?? When I do clean mine (rarely), 10 minutes later it once again looks like a toxic waste landfill site 😒

Maybe it's just a rendered picture?

The hits just keep coming. This is fantastic Liam.
Missed you at basecamp last year.

@boofredlay said:

Amazing work.

cheers!

Awesome.

@pbacot said:

"Because the animation is a GIF I need the first frame to e the same as the last frame so I cant move things too much, it gets tricky!" Oh. But can you make it jump back for the last frame?

Its proving quite difficult, the animation is set on an infinite loop so it keeps on going, in order for it to be fluid you cant just jump back to frame 1. I am working on cutting the cloud layer in half and then inverting it so that the start is also the end and it just keeps on going seamlessly (in principal, harder in practice 😞 )

Nice models, a pity that both littoral combat vessels AND the Zumwalt class have failed tests for resistance to sea skimming missile attacks. The littoral ships are not going to be pursued and the Zumwalts severely cut back to just 3 ships. All that money in development just running down the drain.

@filibis said:

Hey Liam, how's the process going?
Nowadays i'm trying to figure out more or less the same workflow for architectural visualizations but no luck. How do you overcome UV/Light mapping issue inside UE4? That would be great if you could share your experiences in a tutorial like content.

The sketchup export was quite easy and solved at the start, I am only making geometry in SU and was unwrapping in Blender as it was easier. Most of the time until now has been learning UE4 from scratch whenever I have time. I am hoping to post some detailed guides in May and will be sure to let you know.

Very nice. Are you going to add some aircraft to the flight deck?

looking at pictures of the actual ship, the bottom of the hull is dark gray, not orange (or red, like the designer's original renderings)

Very nice! Will she float?