Voyager, the second start! :)

I had to postpone it the last couple of months, mostly because I could not find the focus to do it. But now is the best time to continue and finish it. After all, as Malcom Lu (brilliant 2D artist) said to me, Voyager is the star of the show, it should be done first. He certainly has a point.

I will consider this day 1 of the project.
I created a light rig and some decent render settings for my work in progress shots.

Because Voyager will need all of my attention to get it right, I will put my other projects on hold.

Because it's my summer break!

A freshly rendered alternative angle that I left out for ST-MAG:

Click for a 6000 pixel wide image  ;)

Merian Poll

Poll closed, thank you for voting!

The Merian variant (U.S.S. Hawking) will contain:

The "dual wing" layout. (55%)
Different sensors pods (44%)
A more uniform color scheme (19%)

I decided to skip the vertical nacelle idea for now. Perhaps a different class sometime.

Totally unrelated: You can hang out at the messhall from the U.S.S. Batavia again. (Fixed the link)
(360 degrees panorama)

Think! Before you post!

In the Merian Poll please ignore Horizontal Nacelles.... I should have typed Vertical Nacelles.... (1 on top 1 below...)

In my enthousiam I typed what I thought, then was called away and never noticed my error. :) Sorry!

Voyager research.... :)

I had to make a picture of myself for Dougs blog, but I always end up looking different or too serious. So this time I kept my curvy arch enemy (for the next couple of months at least...) in my hands, much better results! :)

USS Planck (my SOTL2012 entry)

It aired on Dougs blog yesterday, and now I can show some more images of it as well! :)
Most of these are work in progress images. Enjoy!

Variant Experiment

The final Calendar image

Wireframe view, showing the spine in white.