First animation test

For a first test I'm happy with it, needs a lot of refining though

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Back on the Akira

Working on the Akira again getting it to a point where I can start rendering out some animation footage. Also been working on planetary renders. I used Blender Guru's excellent tutorial to get going with the planets then just started fiddling with settings.

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Just a little scaling aid

A Type 6 Shuttle.

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So I decided to re-model the whole thing...

I seem to have fallen in to re-modelling the Akira class from scratch. This is my first 'large' model in Blender so I'm learning a lot as I go but happy with the progress so far. Getting the shape of the catamarans right is by far the trickest part but I think they're about as close as I'm going to get.

Given how low poly the production mesh was I'm allowing myself a little bit of creative licence with some of the details, approaching at as I would were it a 'hero' ship in some cases.

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Shuttle Bays Re-Modelled...

Got the shuttle bays re-modelled completely, these look far better in my opinion. I may add a litttle more detail but nothing massive.

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PBR and Lighting

It quickly became apparent that I was going to have to UV unwrap the whole model and re-texture it, as well as producing a full set of PBR materials. It's a slow process but we're getting there.

I'm exercising a fair amout of creative licence with the panelling and such like but reffering back to the Akira CG model as well as the 1701-E model to get the look and feel right. I'll probably remodel a lot of the front shuttlebay entrance too as the lack of geometry in that area is letting things down quite a bit in my opinion.

[Update]

With the top of the saucer now given a full diffuse and roughness map, I'm starting to get closer to where I want to be;

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Fairway Title Sequence Test Render

So I'm looking to put a title sequence together for a bit of fun, here's the first test render of ship footage. Mesh by Kenny_Z.

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