Here is the ship for wednesday, July 13th:
No low poly project is complete without the inverted normals trick 
The game size shot has photoshopped fading there to get rid of the ugly cutoff that would be hidden by particle effects in-game anyways…
I just have to model and texture one more tonight and I’ll be caught up! I think I am going to do Friday’s tonight too, because I have to spend all night at the bookstore for the Harry Potter release!
Haha, mine were more inspired by the Covenant in Halo and the Nomad ships from Freelancer, still pretty similar
For Thursday, July 14th (OMG I AM CAUGHT UP):
It uses the uh lightning to like grab stuff, or something. I guess. Important, alien things. You know what I’m talking about.
First to say: Wow! Excellent work. I most recently stumpled across this thread and I instantly loved these cute, little, lowpoly, low-texture miniships. Aaaahhh, the good old times… In fact I love them so much, I didn’t manage to keep my hands off my PC and started to do my own one. And it really was a lot of fun! I used Max4.2 and ProMotion for the texture. It took about 2 hours during regular work ;-). The ship has exactly 100 polys and uses a 16 color texture with 64 x 64 pixels. Take a look at it. It’s some kind of a hommage to Captain Falcon’s ship from F-Zero.
Hope you like it. Keep on working! I want to see more ships!!!
Great work on that grappler one!
Any chance of putting them all together at some point? I dont mean collating all your images, i mean place them on a mockup game screenshot - like an upwards scrolling shooter or something? Id like to see how they look when theyre the ‘proper’ size.
xoor - awesome man! I love it the texture looks a tad dull/blurry, if you play with the contrast slider just a bit you’ll keep your 16 colors but hopefully make it pop just a bit more.
Andy - thanks! When I am all finished I intend to 
Because of schedule reasons and the fact that I’ve been doing these for a month already I will probably one do one more week of them before stopping. Plus I am eager to do some scenes!
xno - thanks, I’m glad you like it! somebody requested alpha planes a little while ago so I had to oblige them
Thanks again guys, the last ship in the alien fleet will go up tonight!
Yippee! That’s it for alien week. Inspiration here is probably TOO obviously Samus’s ship from Metroid Regardless, I am not sure what I am going to make next week, I think it will be planets/locations though, so I have some backdrops for the renders whenever I get around to them. Thanks!
EDIT - I think for the mockup renders I will do one at DS resolution and one at PSP resolution, with fairly restrictive lighting, etc. Then probably a “collector” style wallpaper of all the ships rendered plainly in a nice grid, and then hopefully nice big wallpapers of the 2 mockup scenes at higher res.
Nice! I suggest for the planets that you make a few moons as well for some of them. I’d like to see a mechanized/city planet or moon!
Phil - here you go
It didn’t turn out quite like I was hoping, but I think it still basically works. I was having a hard time expressing an entire city block with a single pixel, I’m not sure there’s a good way to do it…
EDIT - This is Tuesday’s “mini ship,” I have to work on paid stuff tomorrow! Mini-ships will be back on Wednesday night!
Well, what can i say that hasn’t been said yet? These are just awesome! I keep coming back to this thread and each time I do I am surprised, delighted, and know why cgtalk is the place to be. With talent and fun all mixed together how can you lose?
These are simply great. You have inspired me to try my hand and super duper plasma pooper low-poly modeling (that means really low like you have been doing…)
Keep up the good work! These are fantastic!! =)
-Bair
Woot! Nice job with the city planet:)
I’ll have to give this very low-poly stuff a try at some point, that way I can actually finish something and work my way from up there!
men maybe i shoold try to… its look complicated…is it hard…??ho well il find out!..
i really sincerely hope you don’t mind me posting one i did here. if it bugs you tell me and i will pull it out. no worries.
first let me say its pretty tough working with such a small texture page and such a low poly limit. the fact that you do it so well is a testament to your skill and abilities. so here it is. my tech tank… shrugs
doesn’t bug me in the least! I would try working with the “pencil” tool in photoshop next time, it should help you get a cleaner, crisper final map! Also, on low poly forms, for some reason things like more “round” if they are not axis-aligned; e.g. if your tank barrel was a diamond-shape along the cross-section, rather than a square. Keep at it!
