Saucer

I think I need to redo the name. It looks kinda.....off somehow. But the panels are more or less done.... on the top anyway :)

Top saucer panels

Been doing some new panels to the top saucer. I didnt think they matched enough.

Nacelle render

And this is how the panels looks like.

Nacelle panels final

I'm done with the panels on the nacelle. Finally :)

Nacelle paneling

Started to repanel the nacelles to match the rest of the ship. Also got the bottom part back to where I left it before the big scare.

Progress

Been doing some more stuff.

Some closeups

Bloody hell. I almost shit my pants when I opened the main hull file today. The entire bottom half was missing. I opened the backup.... and the shit was gone there as well. Also in the last backup the bottom was gone. My wife thought I was about to die because of my very loud cursing and yelling. I opened every single file to check if the bottom was in any of them in some version, and yes, I had one saved, almost the latest one as well. Only the cutout for Moby was missing. Talk about relief :)

So stoopid

Yes I am. I cut out the rescuepods in the hull, and didnt remember I had made a hatch that I had used on the upper saucer already. It took a long time to merge and clean up all the vertexes after combining surfaces. Well some small progress. Some windows and stuff.

Rescuepods

Some more panels are done, and I added the rescuepods.

I hate Trek

Ok. Its official. I hate Trek. Here's an update on the panels. I see I need to change them on the nacelles as well. Exactly what I was afraid of. Damn.

Render test of panels

Had to check how it looked like. Dont want to do all that vertex pushing and pulling just to find out it looks like shit :)

Moby Dick updated

Did some changes to the fighter\shuttle going under Invidia. New panels and some changes in the back.

Main hull panels

Have been cutting out the rescue pods on this part of the hull and done some panels. Still have buttloads left :)

Number 10

This is version 10 of the panels. And I hurt all over. Have been out in the garden and worked.

Aaand panels

Haven't had time to do much today. My little but powerful wife kicked me out into the garden ,to do some work now that the rain have stopped. But here is two renders. Didn't like those to much actually.

And even more panels

One more.

More panels

Testing out some different panels.

Saucer panels

Started on the panels on the saucer.

Nacelle done

Think I'll go with this. The panels dont look to shabby, and I'm relatively pleased with it.

Paneling away.

Have some few left to make on the nacelles. Boolean the panels saved me many days of mind numbing work. Jippi :D

Panel testing

Well, it looks promising so far. Decided to try the boolean way. Made cubes and shaped them as panels and cut the panels out that way. then a quick extrude to get some height. This was just a test, so need to redo some of them.

Texture test 2

I feel I'm so totally unfocused right now. Not happy with the quality of the textures.Need to redo them, and maybe redo the uv mapping on the nacelle.

Texture test

Trying out some textures I made. I see that 1000x1000 is a bit small. The bump gets all jagged. Not sure about what color I should use either.

Easing myself into it.

Jepp. Trying to ease myself into this model again. Decided to try some nacelle work. Did some lines. I wish Ac3d could have an option to insert some loops with fixed width, but no, I have to split and move every damn vertex manually.

USS Invidia

Hell, I was hoping I was over the block with the Invidia model now that I had made some other stuff like the Flynn lightcycle and Moto, but no. Still stuck on the bloody paneling. Shit. Well, I did a render on how it looks like now.

Ringworld

Finally summer holidays. Been busy with work in the real world, but here is a new picture from me. Only thing I haven't modeled are the suit. Thats made by Shukky and downloaded from sharecg. I posed it in Dazstudio4, a free Poser wannabe, and then adjusted it in Ac3d. The buildings and the ring are modeled in Ac3d and then imported to Carrara. Its around 400 buildings in the finished render, all replicated and spread over the ring.

Playing around.

Yes, some old stuff I made some years ago. The street is from another project I made. I thought it could make an interesting background to the Moto. And recycling are just soooo it, this year ;o)

Alone v.2

Finally. After countless renders and redoes, and redo on the redoes and so on, this is what I ended with. Think I'm there now. I got an idea for the Moto RS style bike I want to follow, but I need to model some more stuff first. More to come.

Moto RS

While I'm waiting on the updated Alone renders, that takes forever, mostly because I keep changing them, I decided to make some new textures. Its a more grown up version :)

Alone

"Jessie stood on the road, high up, and listened to the humming of the gigantic machines shaped as skyscrapers. She lifted her hand against the sun, trying to see what laid ahead. The tracker on her hip gave a steady bip, promising that the signal she followed was quite near. She began to wonder if she maybe should be down on the bottom level instead."

Well, its close to what I had in mind with this picture. I'll post a wallpaper shape as well.