Moonbase machines

[Smallworld]

Hi Guys, how you all doing? Strange times at the end of the world for everybody I think. I was laid off at the end of December (actually was glad, not a great environment) and the outlook for retail fitouts (and their designers- me) is bleak in Ireland. Soooo, I'm going to go free lance for a while and see how that goes. I'm going to see if I can actually make any kind of living out 3D / illustration / contact design. As part of this I'm finally getting a portfolio website together and am finishing off and fine tuning various projects. Thats what I'm showing you here, four craft from a fictional moon setting. Probably think Space 2049, that kind of thing. One dates from about ten years ago that I just textured to the four engine transport which is all new. Hope you like, stay strong and keep well everybody!

[scifieric]

Wow!  Beautiful work, dude!

curious to your thoughts on the tiny plates.  Protective?  Energy absorbing?  Just interesting detail?

[Smallworld]

Thanks for that Eric

I did the panels to break up the surfaces and when texturing I tried out a gold foil type material. Looked terrible. I tried a few other things and then set on the hex tiles. I took a product shot of some wall tiles and modified it trying a few different colours. Gold looked good but ultimately grey won out. I see them as thermal / radiation / impact protection that can be easily repaired as needed. Also I think it looks cool, which is the main reason. I wanted to build a family world look across the various craft and the surface tiling helps with this.

[ozylot]

Cool designs. I like the tiles.
I wonder how they would look in a black shiny material like the heat shielding they used on the space shuttle?

[Prime_8]

crazy good looking.