Grand Space Opera 3D Entry: Arild Wiro Anfinnsen

#78

Wiro and Pascal!!!..
I stand in awe.

Have you considered using atmosheperic elements to add scale?? Like clouds or a dust strom or perhaps even a kind of tornado ( the possible cause to the mothership to crash???)

Also supposing that a “mothership” has crashed, one could assume that this massive object simply didnt go plob into the ground and perhaps skidded for a great distance before coming to a complete stop? Maybe by including the vast wake of destruction of the motherships crash more scale can be added.

Besides long streaks of burn marks from a crash never fail to give a sense of desolation to a dessert landscape.

You have always been an inspiration, and just competing with you is an honor.
Good luck.

#79

Heya Wiro!

Dan here. Wicked concept sketches man. It looks like you do it with such easy. It motivates me to improve. I actually really like the top left of the first images you posted. It’s got a calm, quiet eeriness about it that i really like. But which ever one you go with, it’s no doubt gonna be very cool.

good luck man.

#80

Greetings mr Wiro!

I’m nowhere near your level, but I hope to make some useful suggestions.
Looking at your latest sketch, I get the impression that you’re trying to convey a sense of moodiness and melancholy. As mentioned by the others, the sense of scale is still not there, but can be easily rectified by elements relative to your ship. But at this point I really like the feel of your sketch. Some cool colours might further enhance this quality. I would really love to see this quality brought out!

Hope to have helped!
:buttrock:

#81

nice sketches

cant wait to see the 3d version…

#82

Yep, me too. It’s amazing to see how much cgtalk has grown. I still remember how cgtalk used to look like.

Anyhow, wiro, we’re still waiting for your update :smiley:

#83

simoncvy, WazaR and keetmun;
All your suggestions are good ones. I definately will add some smaller ships; escorts, small transports, etc and atmospherics; dustclouds from the ships, suggestions of dust kicked up through wind, etc to the endpiece.
I’m not so sure about the crashwake though since that would implify great speed. I was imagining the ship to be so big that it’s relative speed was low. It would look more like the Hindenburg crash, floating to the ground and crunching it’s shape into the sand.

stupendoh;
Yo man! Good to see you entering too. Several people have liked the ocean pics but I’m thinking that sand broken with rocks and cliffs would look more interesting than flat ocean allthough I too like the colours of the first sketches.

Well, I’ve been working late nights almost all week so no time for updates yet. It’s weekend now so I’ll get back to it soon after getting my hair cut :wink:

Wiro

#84

Wiro loves steam

#85

Arild
Welcome on board!
waiting to see your concepts.

#86

I agree with what you just wrote above, the ocean ones look better to me because of the colouring. -I dont know why, I have nothing against warm colours usually:) But an actual ocean is a little dull in terms of cool rock formations and crashed starships.

So maybe if you consulted your drawing board you could come up with something different: like an ocean inside an icy desert (lake maybe). And there could be caves, glaciers, frozen stuff etc. all with blue and white.

But there really isn’t anything wrong whith the desert idea though, I like it. And I like your starship alot, very original.

#87

ohh man - Wiro is here … you’re my hero, man. Because of the fascination of your shebot pictures i started with 3d … now… it look’s like we are opponents now :slight_smile:

will definitly have a look at your thread from time to time

viel glück - und ja, die ozeanbilder wirken sauberer, frischer und origineller.

#88

When i last battled wiro, it was using a technique called ‘the art of modelling without modelling’

… and we both know who won that battle!

#89

Very nice concepts Arild!! I really like your ship design and good luck to you!!:thumbsup:

#90

great work so far wiro!! :beer:
I like a lot the concepts and cant wait to see how this develops! :thumbsup:

#91

Wonderful work. I can imagine they flying slowly and gracefully over the endless water.

#92

Awesome!
I like the spaceship design!:thumbsup:
Keep Going

#93

i really like both your sketches, i think there is great promise here!

#94

Mr. Wiro!!

We used to exchange emails looooooong time ago. You are my childhood hero! I was inspired by you when i started my cg venture.

Im sticking here…Going nowhere…:bounce:

#95

wonderfull … wonderfulll ! :smiley:

#96

tick, tock, tick, tock…waiting to see more… :slight_smile:

#97

Wiro loves steam