Grand Space Opera 3D Entry: Alan Baars

#1

Alan Baars has entered the Grand Space Opera 3D.

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Latest Update: Texturing: textures, basic lighting

probably not enough time to finish, but I’ll give it a shot…

just textures with basic lighting, no fx

#2

Had this image in my head of a massive structure built inside a globular cluster or nebula.
Just beginning to sort out the shape/feel/direction I will go.

#3

It’s an interesting concept, Alan. Trying to get the lighting and volumetric effects to work right for something like that should be a huge challenge. What software are you using?

#4

I used Painter and Photoshop for this, will be using Lightwave for the final piece.

#5

This is an interresting start, want to see the complex a little more detailed :smiley:

#6

More detail to follow, as the concept takes it’s final form(s). This is probably more like an ultrasound of the final piece, want to do more concept work before creating models.

#7

In the far future, Earth’s sun is nearing it’s death. Citizens of the Galactic Union have constructed a massive structure around the planet in order to transport it to a new star system. Two hundred years after the engineering project began, the planetary ark makes it’s way out of the mother system.

#8

wow I really like the idea of an arch transporting the whole world away from the sun… only question, if humanity would be able to build something that’s aproximately 50 times bigger than earth… why would they still try to transport it away?

I don’t want you to change your concept now, but I’d probably make the thing a lot smaller… so that you can still see the planet in detail… but there’s some sort of a system strapped around it to carry the planet away…

just some thoughts… really like the idea, it’s outstanding!

keep it up! :slight_smile:

#9

In the back of my mind I’d considered that at this point in human history Earth had long ago been transformed into a nature preserve planet, an act of reverence to the world that bore the weight of humanity as it stepped out into the universe. The act of disturbing the world was less appealing than building a structure to move it.

Just liked the idea so much that I couldn’t drop it.

#10

Hurray! Started modeling today! The election’s left me feeling somewhat detached from this, but this is becoming an excelent diversion from thoughts of the dark future ahead.

I expect to have quite a bit more to post tomorrow.

Off to work,
Al

#11

Hello,

Your idea is great but I agree with lehmi that your structure is too big… I mean more graphically the earth looks too small… and in terms of logic too… its strange to build a such big structure if we have the technology to attach just few big reactors on its axes for example… but if I can devlopp your idea maybe that can be a super big space station… in this way that will be logical…
just my 2 cents :smiley: I`m always looking for logic in SF constructions :banghead:
Also your idea on the first sketch talks more to me…

Keep that good direction :thumbsup:

#12

Thanks for the crits. Probably will increase the size of the earth relative to the transport somewhat. Don’t like the idea of attaching anything to the earth that’s large enough to support a drive system, in this age, earth is a nature preserve, so no permanent structures.

#13

So far today. Not sure about the inset shapes, I’ll take another look after work, maybe I’ll change them.
gotta go (me too!)
Al

#14

No real time to work on this last few days, but have a block of time tonight to devote.

Here’s where I’m at so far. Lower right corner is a render test of an experiment using extruded 1point polys as windows (with glow). Like how this worked out so no I have a process to create the thousands of small windows.

#15

last posts of the day, two views of as far as I got tonight…

#16

another view…

#17

Great concept idea and i like your concept sketch

Modelling is processing really good great job:thumbsup:

keep it up and good luck

#18

Wild idea,thinking out of the box…Cool concept,way out there,but thats why it’s cool Alan…I’ll be watching for further developements…Best of luck…:arteest:

#19

Hadn’t had a lot of time to work on this during the week, hope to finish the transport tonight.
here’s where I’m at so far.

#20

going to have to remove more windows looks a little too dense, more time later today…

p.s. carefull of the spiders in Wisconsin, got bit by one five weeks ago, doctor’s stumped. no spidey strength yet just lots of little bumps (ugh!).