Sci-fi Ship

Moodboard

 

Sketches

 Some scrappy horrible sketches, was thinking of basing it off a basic shape and then streamlining it as its a style often used for futuristic designs. I ended up combining a few of these as I didn't like any of them in particular

Was thinking about making a space trawler type ship, which picks up asteroids, debris etc. Doesn't seem to work all that well especially the net, the bad sketch doesn't help. Will try to fix the problems with the 3D model and ignore the net.

Forming it out of a box (divisions were added in strange places for some reason)

Formed the basic shape

(Angle isn't very good

Added more shape and directional lighting. Decided against adding the net thing as it made no sense. More of a small exploration type ship

Side view

 Made a new model with less distortion and better topology (don't have screenshots of early stages, followed similar process starting with a box but divisions weren't added weirdly and used extrude more than in the previous model)

Used bevel and extrude for where thrusters would go

 Applied a greyscale metalic texture over the entire ship added a laser under each wing, added flaps to the wing thrusters and fixed some messed up geometry

Lit Renders

Top+Front

Back+Underneath

 Painted over both the front and back renders. Pretty happy with this aside from some of the shading at the back which doesn't make a huge amount of sense, couldn't get the perspective right with the front window either which I think has let this down quite a bit.

Dragon: WIPs + Final

Started off using the grab tool to work out where the head, wings and tail would go

Added legs and fleshed out the wings, adjusted the head and neck. Body is a little bit small

Made the front legs/arms longer and added details like claws, added a tail and added detail to the face.

Added some extra scaley stuff on the legs, face, tail, body and wings.

Attempted to paint it in Sculptris but the program ended up grinding to a halt so decided to leave as is. I'm pretty happy with this, not sure about the tail as it's a little horseish/leafish but I didn't want to go with the typical spiked tail and wanted to think how it might be used when flying maybe even swimming, as a kind of third wing which could help it steer better and balance itself in flight, or use to swim fast in the water. I think I could of got this concept across better though either through the pose of the dragon or by using a more wing like design

Dragon: Sketches

Wanted to draw some basic types of dragons before deciding what type I'll make using Sculptris. None of these came out well and look a little odd, I prefer the one on the bottom right though.