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thisnorthernboy

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Illustrator from the UK. Spaceships, robots, and imaginary places.

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Interstellar Craft.

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@nyrath Ha! I am certainly having fun fella.

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Latest bit of Blender practice. A support vessel, based on a sketch from a while ago.

Blender 3D render of a spaceship. Long, vaguely half cylindrical - the bottom is flat but covered in engines and greebles. At the back a couple of sensor domes sit above the engine nozzle. The main spaceship is a mix of cream and orange. Underneath glows blue in places. The engines glow red from the heat.

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Sketch… Render…

A little Blender model of a space tug. A cylindrical body, with a goldfish bowl style cockpit at the front. Underneath, a yellow cylindrical cargo unit is attached

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@klausman Mostly through sci-fi-ness.

I'm not a hard sci-fi illustrator, although I do appreciate this very much nods to that. So I don't really worry too much.

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Little render of the un-named space tug.

#b3d #Spaceship

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@iamgerardthomas Cheers fella. I think once you've got basic modelling, you can just make stuff up.

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The Pelagic, progress.

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@nyrath Thank you. I really value and appreciate your opinion Winchell.

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Glowy!

Just need to work out why the angle of the radiator fins is affecting the output.

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Progress on The Pelagic, deep space exploration vessel.

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Latest Blender spaceship - work in progress.

The Pelagic.

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Did I just build a simple model of a spaceship to try and learn UV Wrap in Blender? Did I make it way too detailed? Yes I did. Shall I practice on a simple cylinder first? Yes I shall.

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Progress. Lot's still unfinished, plenty to fix, lots more to figure out.

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When you're learning something new, it's sometimes the littlest things that can give you the greatest thrill.

Adding glowing lights to a spaceship model in Blender.

Just takes me back to the joy of the cool Space Lego kits that would sometimes come with lights.

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Weird Field spaceship progress. I quite like the plastic look of the model without any texture added. Just makes me want to build a kit of it, or make it out of Lego.

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@nyrath Thanks Winchell. When I was designing these ships, they very quickly went from a grungy mess of mechanical parts, to something odder, and less mechanical. I think being able to capture a bit of that in 3D is key.

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Starting to build a Weird Field spaceship in Blender.

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Progress…

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@RJB_Mallacore Cheers mate. Really happy to have finally got over the initial hurdle. I really can only do basic modelling, but repeat stuff, and have a good idea of what my ships should look like, and it seems to be a decent start.

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The next thing I try and model in Blender, is going to be one of my Weird Field spaceships. Not sure which one yet. If you have a favourite, let me know.

I've started building a little toolkit of WF tech.

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Greebling.

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@hypolite I think it came in to use at ILM in the 70s. Might even have been George Lucas who coined it.

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It's @nyrath 's fault I think about cooling fins.

Interstellar ship - work in progress.

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A little maintenance unit. Got to open those pod bay doors some how.

#WIP #b3d #Spaceship

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That'll do for now.

Interstellar Spaceship and maintenance pod.

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