Very cool story Jason 
love the idea of dragging a whole planet with a spaceship.
Great modelling too
Grand Space Opera 3D Entry: Jason Lee
ross_coe
#21
otacon
#22
Thanks. Yea, the lights on the planet are placeholders for now until i paint a better one. Speaking of forming letters, somewhere in my spaceship detail i wrote LW3Dā¦it not in the last renders i posted, but i have it in the new stuff.
greentek
#23
hi Jasonā¦
very original and good storyā¦ excellent backgroud for great pictureā¦ ship model also looks very believable but can you post view of entire shipā¦ cos its not clear from the last picture what youāve changed in the ship designā¦
i think you have to improve the compositionā¦
first you need to outline main event in your scene, find for it proper position and start building all other stuff around itā¦ this technique helps a lot in the hard process of creating good compisitional layout for the sceneā¦ whatās going to be main event? battle? planet? maybe some person on foregroung? its very important to start from this initial levelā¦
great workā¦ 
iāll keep an eye on your projectā¦ it looks very promisingā¦
cheers and best of luck in the challenge!
otacon
#24
Very good point greentek. I know i want to have the āplanet stealer shipā actually wrapped around the planet ready to take it away just as the fleet from Fultran is arriving. Ive experimented with a few different compositions, but i still havent found anything i like yet. This weekend im going to try and nail down a good one. Thanks.
otacon
#25
Here are some color tests i was trying out just to get a feel for what kind of colors would work best. This ship isnt finished yet, but i needed a break from modeling detail. Tell me which one you like best.
otacon
#28
Ive added some more detail to this ship. Im going really slow. Hopefully i can get this thing done. Im still thinking about designs for the planet stealer ship too.
luigithekid
#30
Really impresive! The amount of detail is amazing. Number 2 and 6 are my choices for the shipās colors. Still impressed by the amount of detail.
I think you should post the plantes with a few ships to get a general idea of the composition. Anyways, just amazing!
luigi
otacon
#31
This is some detail on the small fighter im working on. Each engine can rotate independently for fast manuevering.
otacon
#32
This is a composition test to see where some of the things in the scene will go. I am still thinking of a ship design for the planet stealer, so that will be attached to the planet somehow. I am going to add more small fighters in the scene too.
greentek
#33
hi Jasonā¦
your ships look very wellā¦ especially i like fighter with huge enginesā¦ but you have still work on the compositionā¦
best of luck and cheersā¦
otacon
#34
This is another composition test. I might have to go wider to fit everything in the scene, but weāll see what happeneds.
otacon
#35
ā¦and here is another composition idea, this is still very WIP, im just throwing out some ideas here.
greentek
#38
hi Jasonā¦
in my opinion #4 is the best one so farā¦ but thats sure is just my personal opinionā¦
anyway decision to keep one ship on the foreground and close view is definitely right i thinkā¦
your going very well mateā¦ your picture must be great i thinkā¦
keep it up Jason and cheersā¦
IRML
#39
I like number 4 best too, if the rest of your work is anything to go by then this should turn out as a super quality piece of work
shards
#40
:eek: everytime I visit the thread there are some great improvements!! very cool work on the modelling!! loads of details on the last ship! if you want another opinion I think the composition test #5 is the best of allā¦the format fits very well the composition!!this is going to be one of my favourites entries!!keep it up!