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Spacing Out - Another Arik-Attrocity
Arik_the_Red:
Thank ya Eric! Here's a bit more ring-work... building toward the core from outside inward...
dwalcott:
I like this ring A LOT better than the other. For different reasons. You have totally moved away from the cartoon feel of the previous design and have lots more detail that is really gonna shine through with lighting later. Cool. Keep up the good work.
ENSONIQ5:
As soon as I saw the rebuilt ship I was gonna make a post about it's design links to such movies and shows as "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Space, 1999" and "Silent Running"... and then you went and mentioned them yourself! I love the look of the redesign Arik, really excellent work. The central hexagonal power plant section twixt tanks and nozzles has a nice design link to the Eagle moon lander from the Apollo missions. I love this model Arik, perhaps in part because I love the movies and shows mentioned, but also because I like your own unique design ideas, especially in respect to the finer details.
In regards to assymetry, be careful how assymetric you go. For a space vehicle to work properly the mass should be balanced centrally around the thrust axis, so it accelerates straight without cartwheeling. So long as the vehicle looks like it could stand on end, nozzles down, without tipping over it should be about right I reckon.
When it comes time to rotate the ring, assuming you still plan to, could I suggest using a rotation script? It allows simple speed adjustment and does not suffer from those unexpected backpedalling events that happen with keyframed rotations. Let me know if you're interested and I will post a script that can be easily modified to suit your application.
Arik_the_Red:
Thanks again, guys. I'm having fun slowly piddling through this thing.
Ensoniq5, knowing your work because I pored over it heavily when I first saw you enter in the "Strange Worlds" contest, I had a feeling you and I had a similar bent in Sci-Fi taste, and am not at all surprised you pinpointed the same movies/shows as I had in mind. When I broke away from the original design, I started out with trying to go for a very "current day space style", but have opted to keep a certain "futuristic" element to the ship instead... else I would not have the red and white extremes that I've held over, and a certain look that definitely does not quite fit "realistic" in it. I guess it's basically taken a "realistic contemporary look" and future-ized it. And as for symmetry, I have really tried to think "asymmetrical" for this... but it just doesn't want to go that way... However, I might purposely go and make something completely asymmetrical after this, just because I do feel it would be a great thing to build...
Here are a few of the "inspiration shots" I am gleaning from as I do work it.
This first shot, from a classic little game I played in the 1970s, called "WarpWar"... It is my primary source of inspiration, for reasons that are quite obvious as one compares images... The look just screams out the style of space-stuff I really like:
Original WarpWar Game Art:
Refined and polished up Game Art:
When I first got WarpWar it came in a ziplock baggy, and had nothing but basic ink-drawings for art, a hex-sheet for game board, and a bunch little punch-out square playing pieces that had silhouettes of the various ships for the game. But the art (as seen in pic #1) appealed to me heavily, being in the same style as the ships of the movies mentioned previously.
Obviously of the same style and inspiration, the most recognizable model from the old show "Space: 1999" has never lost its luster in my eyes, though to watch the show itself is like watching the worst in sci-fi movie making, just absolutely attrocious all around... But I still feel the "Eagle" really did play hard for "realistic and plausible" as a lunar craft:
Replica model from the show:
3D CG design from who-knows-where:
The Discovery, from "2001: A Space Odyssey":
The ship, Valley Forge, from "Silent Running" (also, for those not aware, footage of this vessel was used in one episode of the original "Battlestar Galactica"... a tribute to a movie? or just being CHEAP?):
....and, being assaulted by the Cylons in "Battlestar Galactica"...
(don't even get me started on the episode where the USS Enterprise is flying with the fleet...)
Yes, I go on and on... but hey, call it a fat-headed ego trip, because I will gladly agree.
Out of all of these, though, I still have a partiality toward the first image - the ink drawing from WarpWar....
Ratticis:
Someone's got too much time on their hands :P (ya, I know, who am I to talk). It always turns out better when you're passionate about what you're doing, which you obviousky are. It looks great and every time i open this thread it looks even better. Looking forward to seeing the completed project.
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