Do you remember that scene near the end of Airplane! where Lloyd Bridges (whose character picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue) sees the stricken 707 coming in for a landing and screams “He’s coming right at us!” Yeah, that’s what I was going for here. Modeling on the lower primary hull is completed, … [Read more…]
Or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gloss” I can’t seem to stop fiddlin’ with the materials on the upper primary hull, but I *think* this is the right balance of shiny/dirty/glossy/not glossy. I think the main reason I keep dithering is because I know, deep down, that once I commit to … [Read more…]
Work in progress #13 shows the Enterprise sporting what I hope is her final coating for the upper primary hull.
The day job has been unusually busy the past few days, so I didn’t have much time for the project this week. I did want to see whether it was possible to render the Enterprise model in 8K (7680 x 4320) and well… it is! But rendering my model at 8K reveals several issues that … [Read more…]
A minor update to end the week. In this image you see that I continue fussin’ with the appearance of the Bussard collectors (the domed caps on the warp nacelles), along with some tweaks to the lights on the saucer-shaped upper primary hull. Happy Flag Day to my U.S. visitors!
Here is today’s work in progress on the star of my project, designer Matt Jefferies’ signature masterpiece, the original USS Enterprise from Star Trek.
I know, I know. I have said this at least three or four times over the past decade. It’s been sixteen years since I bought LightWave 7.5 back in 2003 with an eye towards completing this project. Maybe I was just waiting for computer technology to advance to the point where it wouldn’t take 45 … [Read more…]