My other hobby…building 3D CG models…first up…the Battlestar Galactica

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  • #13741
    Steve Dunlap
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    If all goes well, I'll be able to show you what else I've been doing when I'm not rockin' Bourbon St., or making Exorcist excerpts.

    This is obviously a work in progress.   I am building the Colonial battlestar from Battlestar Galactica, the original 1978 series (although I love both the '78 and recent series).  The program I am using is called “Blender”.  It is a free 3D modeling app, and it is incredibly powerful.   I am making the model in Blender, and then converting it and porting it over to iClone (the program I used to make my Exorcist excerpts.)

     

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    #24202
    Steve Dunlap
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    Engine section added…

     

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/martok2112/Battelestar%20Galactica%20stuff/IMPROVEDHULLASSY001L.jpg
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    #24203
    Steve Dunlap
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    More…

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/martok2112/Battelestar%20Galactica%20stuff/IMPROVEDHULLASSY001H.jpg
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    #24206
    Ananta
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    Great work Steve.

    Your model is pretty much detailed. Impressive !

    #24207
    Steve Dunlap
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    Thank you. 🙂

    Working on the landing bay arms now. Hoping to have them done today or tomorrow. 🙂

    #24215
    Sofia
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    Wooow!

    It looks like Ripley's spaceship!! I LOVE Aliens!

    #24217
    Steve Dunlap
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    Yeah, it's a pretty detailed starship. 🙂

    #24219
    Sofia
    Participant

    Sure is. 🙂 Is this the animated web series you mentioned in your youtube channel? 

    #24228
    Steve Dunlap
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    It's going to be part of it, yes.   Now that I have this more accurized ship built, and know a few more things about the app I used to build it, I'm going to try and build some other models before I get back into the animation.   All the ships I'd built before using iClone looked decent, but were very flat.   Now I can do physical details, and make them look more lifelike.  🙂

    #24229
    Steve Dunlap
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    Well, here she is, pretty much completed….a Colonial Battlestar…namely, the Galactica.  I was able to make nameplates for Galactica, Pegasus, Atlantia, Rycon, Columbia, and Solaria.

    I think she turned out rather nicely.  My first model I've ever built with an advanced modeling app….Blender.    
    This was a fun model to build….and quite a tough one for my first, as battlestars and star destroyers are among the most greebled physical models out there.    For reference, I used my 2 inch Konami Galactica and Pegasus miniatures, as well as online photo references.
    This version will appear in an animation soon.
    I hope you'll like this 🙂
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/martok2112/CGI%20Galactica%20fanfilm%20project/GALACTICA009.jpg
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    #24230
    Steve Dunlap
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    some more…
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/martok2112/CGI%20Galactica%20fanfilm%20project/GALACTICA006.jpg
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    #24231
    Steve Dunlap
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    another batch of beauty shots…  I'm pretty proud of this being my very first mesh…I picked a mother of a ship to start with too. LOL!
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/martok2112/CGI%20Galactica%20fanfilm%20project/GALACTICA003.jpg
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    #24237
    Sofia
    Participant

    It's INCREDIBLE! It looks so real!!

    #24238
    Steve Dunlap
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    Thank you, my friend. 🙂

     

    I do plan to do a little more refining to it.  A friend of mine recommended bevelling some of the edges.  The way it would catch the lighting with bevelled edges would make it look even more realistic.  🙂

     

    I am currently working on the Cylon basestar (the battlestar's nemesis).  I should be able to finish it in half the time it took me to make the battlestar.

    #24240
    Sofia
    Participant

    Can't wait to see it, Steve! It looks realistic enough to me!

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