Spaceboat: Animation

The final result of all those hours in class spent working on that ship. A very quick and dirty spacey animation involving my two models. Please be kind, as it was my first use of Adobe After Effects, and I really struggled to get it all working as good as it is. Anywho, it'll get me a passing grade on the assignment, so I guess it's not all that bad.

Enjoy!

Modeled/Rendered in 3Ds Max 2009
Composition done in Adobe After Effects

Fates

(3150x2231 image. Clickie for big version)

They travel a road without any knowledge of their destination. They cannot see where they are, nor make use of any of their other senses. Willing slaves to an unseen force.

They have no choice; they smile the whole way.
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Just a random idea that I wanted to do. Mixin' it up with a different lighting scheme and multiple characters. I totally had a base image I used to draw this, so no praise for my suddenly awesome human drawing skills

For my next extracurricular project, I wanted to try and do something just out-right cute. I try and mix it up whenever I can.

Lobphant

A rerendering of my older hybrid design. (Clickie for bigger)

I now call it a Lobphant. I think it's more punchy that way >>

Anyway, still experimenting with different methods of shading and rendering. Let me know what you think I can improve on!

This time around I focused on making sure the shading conformed to the texture base instead of relying on the texture itself to do that. Also, for this piece I did away with the "Lightest" layer, which I used to get the bright white specular effect on some of my other pieces. I didn't think it would work out well with the textures.

Anyway, enjoy!

Spaceboat

Another spaceship project from my intermediate 3D class. This one I did from scratch, not really having any idea how it would turn out. I actually had thought it would look more Enterprise-ey, but I like the shape of this. It's not often that you see a spaceship that looks like a boat.

I used Jeff's ship model as the fighters for this model. I'm not sure how big he figured his ship was, but maybe that just makes this ship really really big :D

Modeled, textured, and rendered in 3Ds max 2009.