Grand Space Opera 3D Entry: Zubuyer Kaolin

#1

Zubuyer Kaolin has entered the Grand Space Opera 3D.

#2

How u all doin… gr8 to be here and i wish best of luck to all the ppl in this contest… first of all lemmi introduce myself… I’m Zubuyer Kaolin and i’m 18 years old. i know there r lot of really big ppl here so m kinda scared of them that i might get lost under them. LOL well anyway here goes my idea…

here is my first try on a concept… its really been hard for me cause i never(NEVER) did any 2d drawing in Photoshop or any other software so this is my first 2D work, and i had to use a mouse cause i dont have the laxury of a Wacom Tablet… it took abt 3hours to do…and m having trouble on visualizing a better concept… this is somewhat an end-of-the-earth-and-there’s-no-hope thing… i really need some comments on this… thanx sooo much… there r more to come real soon…

#3

oh, i suck at space ship design… but here is a quick skatch…

#4

Hi,

Ok it’s not a problem if you can drawing very well space ship,
you can try to make one with some 3d primitives quickly then make a screen shot in a good perspective view then print it or redraw it with photoshop or pencils.
It’s a good method to add details or achieve the design without lot of persp problems :slight_smile:

#5

thanx Michel… i am aware of this mathodology u were talking about… and thanx for the suggestion… anyways… here is another concept skatch… i tried to grab a more peaceful futuristic place, where aliens and human live togather

#6

i was so excited about this contest that i cudnt resist modeling a simple spaceship… i used some crappy panel textures that max gives for free with it… took abt 30mins. i might use this one as a small background ship.

#7

Hi 3doid, (again!) :slight_smile:

i like the first idea better, it is more ‘operatic’. Opera to me suggests drama and grand scales and themes, (I cant get bugs bunny and elmar fudd opera image out of my mind ‘who killed the wabbit!?!’ dont know if youve seen that cartoon based upon the famous Wagner opera with ‘ride of the valkyries’ theme :)) so an ‘end to the earth and theres no hope’ idea suggests more of a dramatic tension and is more ‘opera’ than a peaceful place where everyone gets along. although this advice should be be taken lightly as a peaceful place could be the starting prelude of an opera or the ending…

Also Michel has a good point, at this stage its best to be concentrating less on the details and more on the ‘composition’ of the image using simple shapes. The composition should emphasise the main theme or ideas that you are trying to make - it does not have to be finished and beautiful at this stage. Drama and tension can be thought about here in the relative placements of the centre of attention(s) and the direction in which you want peoples eyes to travel when they look at your image.

#8

hey Tekano, thanx for your feed back… i agree with you… i think a battel or conflit would best suit the Space Orera theme then a peaceful sitback… and yeah i saw those cartoons.

Okay hers is a story concept i developed for the base of my work

[The story]

It?s the year 3121 mankind have advanced a great deal that they expand their boundaries to far space, controlling many planets of many solar systems. This revolution happened in the year 2730. That was the time when man conflated other civilization both with force and peaceful discussions. The first 3 century the fleet gained peace and prosperity but in the darkness conspiracies where taking place. In the yeah 3106, a group of extremist and power hungry people lead by earth?s former hero Zenix Lon betrayed earth and assembled an army of savage creatures from many planets within the fleet to fight for power. His goal was to gain leadership of the entire fleet, but to gain support from others he promised free leadership to each leader of their planet. But this also was the part of the huge conspiracy. Thus the great war begun. Meanwhile earth seeks alliance within its neighboring planets and assembled their own powerful fleet. This war has now reached its 15th year, but there seems no stop for this chaos.

#9

I’ve read your story, but you should’nt forget that the thema was like a ‘turning point’ in a space opera. maybey you could add something like someone is losing, winning, surrendering or something like that.
anyway I liked your story, sketches and the first textured model :wink: looking forward to see more from you :bounce:

#10

thanx PreatORiAn for dropping by, feels gr8 that you liked my work. well as u can see the story is the base concept… its the history of what is gonna happen next… now i’ll have to figure out a hopefully powerful ending to it and start working on the final image… in that i’ll surely wanna potray a turning point in space history (and that is the theme of this challange)
well here are some of my thoughts:

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  1. Earth moves for action with a huge space army
  2. Earth gets defeted and all its ships and civilization gets destroyed
  3. Earth fights back and both side gets heavy damage
  4. The underground Conspiracy meeting (meny alien leaders and Zenix Lon)
  5. Peace (rejected lol)
  6. Repare station for damages battelship (with huge robots and torn ships)

and more to come…
[/B] :bounce:

#11

I also liked the first sketch, i think you can start from that one to make fantastic idea just try to add more of your nice thoughts into it, also you can make many good effects and lighting there while the peacefull one looks a bit boring,(sorry).

good luck friend,

#12

hi doid… i see nice sketches here… make some more detail sketches and everything is going to be good :slight_smile:
btw i am 17 years old :stuck_out_tongue:

#13

hey Designer2 i agree with you… what is a grand space opera with out some hardcore spaceship blow up MUHAHAHAHAH… and yeah now that m more into it… i wont b makind any concepts of peaceful boredom… now where is my torpido launch button… gotta blowup some alien ass!! :bounce: :bounce: :wip:

#14

here is a pre-vis of one of my concepts… it shows earth getting ready for soem heavy alien butt kicking…

#15

cool i like it :smiley: it puts me in mind of battlestar galactica :thumbsup: hope to see you in the finals

#16

qualifies for space opera by my standars :stuck_out_tongue:

you might want to put some ships into ‘squadrons’ or something so it’ll look more organized instead of yust ships all over te place ^^

#17

hey thanx CgGoth, i hope i’ll make it to the finals… and thanx PreatORiAn for the great suggestion… its more realistic and logical to put ships into ‘squadrons’ rather then what i did… when i made this pre-vis i was thinkin earth was in panic and through every ship they got without thinking LOL… i’ll do soem more of these soon… :wip:

#18

Actually i think you got too much objects in that scene…i’d suggest you to remove some objects from the background and of course group em into squadrons as preatorian said already.
Great work so far!!:thumbsup:

#19

Hi!

I think you are doing great!

But I think you need to include some enemy ships too, to give the sense that something is imminent, like the combat can start at any second.

Keep it up :thumbsup:

Best regards

#20

thanx for the feeldback guys… well here is some update on my concept… tell me what you think