MDS Ship Ideas

[cavebear]

Still no PC up and running yet. Here is something I've been playing around with on my lap top.

[Ice-Dragon]

Nice looking ship there mate

[cavebear]

Thanks Ice-Dragon,

Can't do much detail until my PC is up and running as the lap top chokes

But I am working on windows right now that I will be putting in the trench and I've been trying to eliminate most of the sharp corners a bit.

It's a big ship so I can only do larger details till the pc is up.

[cavebear]

Man there are a lot of large blank areas on this pig to fill in. Only about 5% of the windows have been installed along the trench area (it's close to 400 meters long). Going to give the windows different colours next time too.

This lap top took over 6 hours to render the scene.

[Ice-Dragon]

that looks really good
I would make those windows bigger if the ship is only 400m long, because at the moment looking at the windows the ship loos about 4,000m long.

[cavebear]

Actually the ships overall length is about 1130 meters and the trench is about 656 meters. I thought is was around 400. The windows are all 1 meter tall and the smallest of them are 0.5 meters wide.

The perspective angle is giving a very cool sense of mammoth size too. Kind of dramatic.

[cavebear]

In Banff right now on day 3 of my holiday . Just wondering any of you think that I should vary the colour of the windows of the MDS Wraith for rendering. Right now it looks a little 'bla' I think. The windows have a lot of sizes but the colour is worring me.

I also just picked up a new WACOM tablet with a 9 x 12 inch working surface. I have no program yet to use with it when I get home but from what I hear Corel is the way to go. Any other suggestions? I need to learn to make texures and using a mouse just sucks which is why I picked up the tablet.

This will probably be the last time I find a computer for the rest of the week so I'm hoping to have some comments to go through that might help me when I get home next week.