New Sci-fi Short Film.

[Tower888]

Greetings! Do you have a Composer/Sound Designer lined-up to do the music and sound effects yet?

[Unity95]

Well we do have a sound guy but he may be only doing one thing. Either the music or the sound effects.

We really need modellers though:thumbsup:

Let me tell you... Any help is appreciated...

[rajdeep]

I wonder if I can be of any help...I work in wings3d and can export in 3ds format will that do...

[Autarkis]

Whats the project exactly? Can you provide a backstory for it?

Please post sketches to see if the ships are interesting :)

[Unity95]

Well the story is about 2 groups (races) locked in an endless battle. It has so long that neither side remembers the reasons behind the war. The short film is about the turning point of the war and follows a pilot that is two hearted about going to war with the enemy. As he is told by his sister that they can not achieve peace through the destruction of another race.

Anyway. The space battle it self is around 3 minutes but after that the the main character and an enemy fighter crash land on the planet below. There they find an extinct civilization. An abandoned city with giant ocean ships and old war machines swollowed by an endless desert.

There are so many fun things to work on here. The big ships and the space battle, giant derelict space hulls in the space battle (of destroyed ships), present day ships that will be in the desert, modern day buildings that will make up the abandoned city, conventional war machines in the desert and many others.

I can't get the images to work.. I'm trying to put them somewhere as I can't attach them.

Will have them tomorrow.

[Autarkis]

You can email them to me at autarkisATphantomflowDOTcom

I'll put them up on my webspace :)

[solarisavenger]

Hi unity95,
I would like to join in this modelling too. Could you give me some concepts to model on or atleast some ideas would be great. Please pm me and I would be glad to help out.
you can also email me at solarisavenger@yahoo.com .

[Unity95]

Thanks guys. As you see the concepts are not in great detail (yet) but the idea was to have the "good guys" have homeworld 2 style ships and the "bad guys" more along the lines of Starwars. The there is room for great amounts of detail. Although there will be many distance shots of the ships in battle, there will be more close ups. Specially when they are destroyed the fighters will be flying around the giant hull pieces.

Besides the Spaceships there are many more things like rusty old and destroyed oil tankers and battle ships of the present time or slightly in the future. Also present time city buildings.....

Again thanks for the help:bounce:

[Unity95]

Let's see if these load...

Bad guys (http://www.3dluvr.com/unity/images/ship1.jpg)

Good guys (http://www.3dluvr.com/unity/images/ship2.jpg)

Agian, they are not very detailed concepts. The detailed plans will come before modelling. If I know who is doing what then I can give out detailed model sheets.:thumbsup:

[solarisavenger]

unity95, i am in. do you have aim or something so we can communicate? I have been chatting with autarkis for a while and we have got some ideas exchanged. Though I have never talked about the concepts you have provided. I will posts some pics of what I have come up in a few days based on the concepts you have given. I will be going for the bad one. If you could provide any more details would be great.

[Unity95]

Thanks solarisavenger :bounce: also :thumbsup:

Thats cool if you go for the bad guy's ship.
These ships are like star destroyers but have a rounded hull and one very large engine array. The image here is of a battle cruiser and is about 6.3 ks long.

The destroyer is 2.7 ks and flag ship 13 ks.

I'll post up a detailed concept sheet tomorrow.

:applause:

[solarisavenger]

Unity,
I have begun working on the engines and today I am working on the hull. I would like to have more information like the detailing so I can put in stuffs. I forgot to mention to you that I am working on maya and not 3dmax.
Will post some details later.
edit
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on a side note I am doing the hull in nurbs and polys so they are both mixed.

[Autarkis]

but dont worry, I'll transfer all of his work to a max/3ds file :)

[Unity95]

Ok since the "bad guy's" ship is being modelled I have done a detailed concept of the Bad Guy Battle Cruiser.

Here it is. The model needs to be pretty detailed bu not extreme, as the close ups will either be camera projected maps on a basic mesh or matte paintings and for very close up those sections will be modelled. So the detail level needs to be fine enough so that one can zoom in a little. :thumbsup:

Bad Guy's Battlecruiser Detailed (http://www.3dluvr.com/unity/images/EBattlecruz1.jpg)

[solarisavenger]

Hi Unity,
based on the side images of the battleship you have given I have tried my best to come up with the hull of the ship and the engines.
here are the pics,
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/keltuzar/1.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/keltuzar/3.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/keltuzar/2.jpg
Do you have aim or msn messenger? we need to chat to come up with ideas for the glowing stuff in your new images. Becuase from far it looks kewl but if you want to zoom in a little people will want to know what all the details are. I have the whole modelling by far in 2 days spending say 4-5 hours totally. I know its not much but I have other commitments like my studies, but I am trying my level best to contribute.

[Unity95]

I'm signing up wis msn messanger so we can talk over things. I think it's going great so far. As I was saying before, the bad guy's big ships are like star destroyers in that they have a lot of greebled bits between the smooth plates.

[Unity95]

Here is a detailed concept of the good guy's ship.

Good Guy (http://www.3dluvr.com/unity/images/WBattlecruz1.jpg)

[solarisavenger]

http://www.3dluvr.com/3XcG1083203178m/unity/images/WBattlecruz1.jpg
http://www.3dluvr.com/3YdG1083203321s/unity/images/EBattlecruz1.jpg

[Autarkis]

http://www.phantomflow.com/project/concepts/screenconcept1b.jpg

http://www.phantomflow.com/project/concepts/screenconcept1a.jpg

Here are some speed paintings of the planet. (from unity95)

[osadkid]

Hey ,i would also like to help ,this looks very intersting.
I am not the best modeler ,but i am an avid animator. I can animate in pretty much all the major packages except for softimage.Im also a character animator in those same packages and more. So if you need an animator ,then just email or pm me ,both are found at the bottom of my post (you know what i mean ;) ).Also you can see some of my work at my temp portfolio (http://osadkid.bravepages.com) .

Thank You ,
Daniel Osadtsuk

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