![[Comic 158] Starship Texture Preview – Almost Done](http://www.thefarreaches.com/comics/2008-02-01-0158-Preview.jpg "[Comic 158] Starship Texture Preview – Almost Done")
Feb 01
After much learning, experimenting, and a lot of software-related setbacks, I finally have the ship just about done. I wanted to do something nicer and more custom than previous ships, especially with the texturing. The shiny texture is nothing too new, although I tried to make it more iridescent with that blue-black-purple shine to it. The glowing panel lines were just something fun I wanted to try. The whole look is a custom, flashy, perhaps too flashy sports ship. We’ll be meeting the owner pretty soon. I just need to make the landing gear and boarding ramp. Before that I need to take some time to plan the ship out and determine how big it is and what the interior layout might be. This ship will be used quite a bit in the coming pages, so I wanted to make it cool. After that I need to build and texture the background set for the establishing shot. But after learning so much about texturing in modo with this ship, I should be able to do some nice stuff for the background. Please let me know what you think.
Shiny! I like it. Do we get to know whose ship it is yet?
Anemone
Sure! We’ll meet him as soon as I finish the next page. So hopefully soon.
Gwah!
*dies*
That is AMAZING! How long did it take you to do that, approximately, breaks and setbacks aside?
Forgot to mention this before but it reminds me strikingly of a Covenant Banshee from Halo, yet it is also very much different.
Glad you like it. Modeling the ship took about a day, maybe a day and a half. I don’t remember. Texturing took over a day and a half, but that’s because modo kept crashing without saving all the maps I had just painted. It would have taken about four to five hours to texture, without the problems. But I think once I figure things out it should take a lot less time because it hasn’t taken me too long to keep fixing the textures that didn’t get saved. I’ll rant about it tonight and show more pics.
Sweet! Worth the wait.
*Agrees all around*
Only I was thinking that it looked more like a twisted concept of a possible future Covenant Capitol Ship from Halo…instead of a Banshee…
Everything looks nice and shiny, good job!
I can’t wait for the comic!
Anyway, as usual, I’ll just say, good luck, have fun, and keep the stress, the getting sick, and the dying down to a minimum.
Do we have an agreement?
Thanks for the concern.
I’m doing pretty well at the moment, all things considered. The work for the ebooks is done for now, the challenging ship is finally finished and ready, so I’m ready to hopefully do something cool. I’ve got some great 3d art that’s got me inspired (and they’re not soooo incredible that I could never match them…so that’s good too.) The makers of modo wrote me back and told me how to make sure the image maps get saved (save ALL command). So even though it still crashes a bit, at least I won’t lose my work now.
I’m still waiting to hear back on the ebooks, but that should be soon. So right now I can just focus on getting the next page done.
I like the ship!
Great comic!
i think it is generaly agreed, the ship looks frikin sweet! and convenentish….hehehe, though a lot cooler! (who would build a ship shaped like “whale” anyway?)