HARDCORE MODELING! 80's Cartoon: STARBLAZERS

#21

Wow Mario! Looks great!

Cool concept, its coming along nicely, I had never heard of this show till you mentioned it. Can’t wait to see what you come up with! Good luck!

#22

Thanks Keith, glad you like it. The show was very popular in the early 80’s. The animation was not so good, but the story, ship designs, and music made it a favorite cartoon. The movies were much better, and Disney was seriously thinking about doing a live action Star Blazers motion picture.

#23

wow cool thats alota detail. Are you gonna add some cool textures?:bounce:

#24

I am going to do my best on the textures, I am not so experienced in Photoshop. At this point I just have to give it my best shot. It’s going to take me a while.

#25

I never watched the show, but I have definately seen this guy around model shops and whatnot. Great job!! Looks ready to blow something up real good!

#26

Thanks, trying to get it textured on time. They haven’t shown Star Blazers on US TV in years, due to variety of excuses. It’s a shame, because despite the dated and clunky animation the plot was very interesting and the science fiction aspect of it very imaginative.

#27

Here are the six orthographic renderings of the Argo space battleship from Star Blazers, originally Space Cruiser Yamato in Japan. Since the last WIP’s I have done some minor modeling changes, especially to the main guns. Textures are done too. Beauty shot is next!

Front view:

Back view:

Right view:

Left view:

Top view:

Bottom view:

#28

Well done dude, modeling is very sharp. Congrats on finishing before the deadline!

#29

Thanks man, almost there. Still working on my lighting on the beauty shot. Space scenes are a bit tricky to light. Will post tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest.

#30

Looking very cool! Cant wait to see what your beauty shot will look like.

Cheers and Happy Easter!

#31

Nice work here, really looking forward to seeing your beauty shot.

Apparently there will be a new Yamato movie released in Japan this year, set 21 years after the origional series concluded.

#32

I hope it’s a good one, they keep doing sequels, it would be nice if they re-did the first one with updated CG animation.

Here are some wires:

Still working on that beauty render!

#33

Here’s the link to the turntable animation.

http://mysite.verizon.net/restoilt/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/argo_turntable_02.mov

#34

Here’s a small version of the Beauty Shot. At the front of the ship the Wave Motion Gun starts to charge up before the blinding discharge that is about to vaporize the enemy. The crew had to wear very dark shades to protect their eyes, very dramatic eh?

#35

Here are some renderings to show the ship from a variety of angles. This has been a lot of fun.

#36

Hey Mario!

Congrats on making it on time! This one has been quite a model!

The ship looks wonderful, exactly as I remembered. :smiley:

Next step will be a diorama right?

#37

Hey Eric,
Good to hear from you. Thanks for your comments on the Argo. I was looking at your Arcadia this morning, a very impressive model, congratulations to you too. We made it!Definitely, let’s do a diorama next.

#38

Mario.

Do you want me to fully texture your model for the Diorama? I can read LWO files just fine.

#39

congrats on finishing the model on time…
looks amazing…

it would be cool if you and FICTIS’s Arcadia together … it would be amazing …
Good Job !!:smiley:

#40

Thanks theKid123, glad you like the model. I really enjoyed working on it. We are definitely going to render them together, I guess they are both Leiji Matsumoto designs after all.

Back in 1980 I never imagined I would some day do a 3D model of the Argo, strange eh?