Serenity 2 - The tutorial
 

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Work has been a bear and I've been putting a lot of time into a Serenity modeling tutorial for Lightwave.

The original thread was started over at Lightwave Group and is up to 712 replies in 6 weeks.
This is the progress so far:

http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/testpic1T.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/testpic2T.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/testpic3T.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/testpic4T.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/testpic5T.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/testpic6T.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/testpic7T.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/testpic8T.jpg


Although the tutorial is actually a thread at LWG, there are PDF files available from my website (right-click and choose save target as):

Detail Reference Pictures
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...Details_A3.pdf

Part 1
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial... Tutorial-.pdf

Part 2
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...rial-Part2.pdf

Part 3
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...rial-Part3.pdf

Part 4
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...rial-Part4.pdf

Part 5
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...rial-Part5.pdf

Part 5 Extra Movie Details
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...orial-note.pdf

Part 6
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...rial-Part6.pdf

Part 7
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...rial-Part7.pdf

Part 8
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...rial-Part8.pdf

Part 9
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...rial-Part9.pdf

Part 10
http://www.seansgallery.com/tutorial...ial-Part10.pdf

Part 11-15 are not yet complete in PDF format.

Cool looking mesh .... thanks for spending the time to make the tutorial, definately on my 'ToDo' list now,

Andy

thanks!

Looks good, Sean.


Mind if I link them into our Tutorial section?

Thank you Sean - i'm learning a great deal so many thanks for taking time to put this together!

Wow! She looks beautiful! Impressive detail. I love it. :)

Yeah that is a great Tutorial

All right, even though I use max this should come in handy.

Thank you very much!

that serenity is as nice as a firfly? is that what it's made like? :bounce:

Yes. That's it exactly. Only this is the movie version, not the TV version.

AWESOME !!!!!!!! I have just started to model .. I will be adding this to my todo list...

Cool! Hope this works for everyone. I've been running into some serious system issues at home so I haven't done much in the last week or so.

thank for the tutorial, Sean!

My God.... that's beautiful. I have to ask though, is the primary buffer panel detachable? :D:D:D

LOL!

BTW: I have been working on the tutorial but none of it is in PDF format yet. If you want to catch up you can take a look at the Works in Progress forum at the Lightwave Group. As soon as I get the PDF's caught up I will post links to them here.

Until then here are some more tidbits:
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...-599431_tn.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...-599451_tn.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...-527998_tn.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...-528132_tn.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...-219816_tn.jpg

And a quick little AVI of the cargo hold
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/cargo3.avi

Looks stunning Sean :) I am in awe looking at the work so far .. its taken me week to get the over all shape of my first mesh right and that would be simple stuff you you.... I hope the system issues have been resolved :)

Yeah. finally. I also just got back from an animation seminar so I'll be able to put those skills to use soon.

EDIT: just do the first four or five parts of the tutorial and you learn skills that will speed up your modeling process.

Cool ........:) I have learn a bit by Trial and lots of errors .. but now I understand more I will spend more time on your Lession :)

Been wanting to do this one myself. Beautiful work.

I was looking for a reason to reinstall Lightwave. Thanks :)

What app are you using, Starwolf?

I hear you on that one. Computer art is my last refuge. Well, I hope you'll share some of your art with us. :biggrin:

If you guys want a bunch of generis tutorials try this site:
http://www.3dlinks.com/links.cfm?cat...categoryid=115

On the left hand side are links to tutorials for other 3d programs and links to free model sites.

Sean, you always do such gorgeous work... your Valley Forge is one of my favourite examples, and this looks to be stunning. thank you SO much for sharing the tutorial... This is phenominally helpful!

-jaime

Ok guys. Sorry for the late posting..... Here are nore updates to the texturing of the ship.
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/text106.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/text107.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/sertexture2.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/sertexture1.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/wings_textured.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...finished01.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...finished02.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...finished03.jpg
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...finished04.jpg

:smiley: Wow, that's professional-level work.

Thanks!

Professional? Absolutely! What impresses me the most is the texturing, very well done. The mesh is spot on, imho, but the texturing is outstanding.

Sean, how long did it take you to produce the textures for the mesh? That must have been image map hell, lots of time with photoshop?

An outstanding effort, without question.

OK....what part are we talking about? The Shuttle or the whole ship?
The shuttle took me a week. I've been working on the textures for the whole Serenity mesh for quite a wjile now. I have been working on the textures for the entire ship since June, but I've also been writting the modeling tutorial at the same time. One of the reasons why it's taking so long.....I have been working on the Serenity modeling tutorial since November 1st, 2005....

This weekend I collaborated with Lynn Lefey and produced a new variant on the Firefly class spaceship, using my old mesh as a base.
The mesh and deck plans are for use with the Serenity Role Playing Game.
The variant is based on a description from the rule book of a blockade runner version of the ship used during the Alliance/Indenpendent war.

here is a zip file containing the custom blockade runner schematics (4.11MB)
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/..._custom_BR.zip

here is a zip file containing the standard blockade runner schematics (5.6MB)
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...firefly_BR.zip

Each image is 2000x2000 pixels

The Deckplans were produced by Lynn:

Custom blockade runner - Crew deck
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...r-mod-crew.jpg

Custom blockade runner - Missle deck
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...od-middeck.jpg

Custom blockade runner - Cargo deck
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...er-mod-cgo.jpg