Competition #13 - Godo

[Godo]

This is what I'm talking about
in #1 I just made a solid object, but it was really confusing to manipulate.
in #2 I made it from a chopped up sphere, and it looks a little easier to manipulate, but there's more polys... I mean is there gonna be some kind of give/take here in regards to that?

[doylle]

The problem you have is that you're thinking 2D in a 3D world. Never ever use that technique you used, where you line out your contour, and then extrude. It's evil, it's everything you don't want, it's almost like using booleans...

I know i said to work on 1 viewport, and then work from that, so i can imagine that this is a bit confusing now. Therefore i made a quick mockup of how i'd construct your shapes. Note that there are many ways to do this, and that this is most likely not the best one, but it works for me. Also, it's missing alot of the detail from the concept, and it still needs alot of tweaking to get all the loops and vertices in place, but this should give you an idea...

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/3600/mockupqi3.jpg

cheers

[Atius]

i must say i agree with doylle, ur modeling technique needs some improvement... but the most important aspect about ur concept is that it lacks some shapes, u got the main shapes but u need some more details in it, as a 3d model i mean... aniway i think that ur doing a great ship and i hope we can all see it ready and textured

[Godo]

Ok. I've got some progress on the low poly - please crit as much as possible.
I'm almost done with the pod, I might sketch out some more details, but I think I can catch most other things with the normal map. doylle's little tut helped a lot. Thanks Doylle!

Right now it is at 772 tris.

[Atius]

hehe alot better now, nice shapes there...lookin`forward for some updates

[chris89]

i smell a vexor

[Godo]

What is that?

[doylle]

Google Image Search

It has the same "key elements" indeed, but it has enough custom stuff to to pass i think

[fabiodan]

It might be a good idea to add some wings in the sides of the ship. I might be wrong, but I think it will look cool.

[Godo]

Originally Posted by doylle

Google Image Search

It has the same "key elements" indeed, but it has enough custom stuff to to pass i think

Oh! I played the EVE demo once, but I don't remember that ship. I think I was the race that had the more scaffolding-looking ships. That ship is much larger in scale though.

It might be a good idea to add some wings in the sides of the ship. I might be wrong, but I think it will look cool.

Don't worry - I was just trying to get some crits on the pod since I had a hard time getting started. I should be completely done with the low poly this weekend - still sticking mostly to the original concept so it will have the engine nacelles and wings on its flanks.