After working on so many film projects over the last year its about time I got back into working on some fun 3D projects of my own. So after much, much, much (not much) deep thought on this subject I’ve decided to put together a quick starship to play with in some VisFx projects I want to try out soon.

No points for guessing any influences, the point of this project is to try out some design ideas and eventually work on some visual effects shots with the model. I’m putting the imaginatively titled ‘Starship 1′ together in Maya. I’ll come up with a fancy classical literature sourced name for it in the weeks to come.

So far I’m still developing the basic shape, there’s very little detail so far but I’ve textured it with a simple reflective metallic grain, just as a test.

This is going to a be a bit of test bed for some things I’ve wanted to try for a while but I’ve had no time to play with because of commitments to other projects. So this might end up being a bit of mess, but hopefully will lead to some fun results to use in future projects.

Filed under: Projects, Work, 3D animation, 3D modeling, 3D Starship, 3D WIP, David Forrest