USS Kelvin

The Animaniac · January 1st, 2009, 04:28 AM

Here my Cinema 4D-Conversion of Tobias Richter´s USS Kelvin. Special Thanks to Tobias to let us play with his Beauty, Original Model made with Maya 2008.

gmd3d · January 1st, 2009, 05:42 AM

excellent .. the lighting is great ......and I also like the warp effect

evil_genius_180 · January 1st, 2009, 10:16 AM

Man, that's awesome. I'm really loving that design. It's kinda funky looking and I usually like funky looking Trek ships.

And, as Taranis said, your lighting is awesome.

In what format is the original file?

mikala · January 1st, 2009, 10:44 AM

Great job getting that out of Maya Animaniac!

The Animaniac · January 2nd, 2009, 07:33 AM

Thanks Greg! Have reworked both a bit and rendered a Hi-Res Version. Original Model was made in Maya 2008.

mikala · January 2nd, 2009, 07:39 AM

It looks like you fixed the texture on the saucer section?
For such a weird ship it looks very good in your renders.

The Animaniac · January 2nd, 2009, 08:31 AM

Yes, the Textures are fixed. It was a hard job to get all correct Texture-Paths and Sizes out of a Application i have never used before

mikala · January 2nd, 2009, 08:57 AM

Well Tobias seems to be a very helpful person. He seems to answer questions about his mesh pretty quickly.
I thought the textures looked more "dense" if that describes it correctly. About twice the amount of panels showing.

The Animaniac · January 2nd, 2009, 09:38 PM

Yes, he is very kind, but i was satisfied to figure it out myself.

evil_genius_180 · January 2nd, 2009, 09:54 PM

Those are great. I especially like the one with the phaser and explosion. Is this model available for download or something he sent you?

The Animaniac · January 3rd, 2009, 08:20 AM

Thanks! Its released at SFM as a Maya-File, and my Cinema 4D-Conversion with a OBJ-File follows in the next Days.

evil_genius_180 · January 3rd, 2009, 10:20 AM

Sweet. I guess I'll have to try and remember my password for SFM.

January 30th, 2009, 11:07 AM

Wow nice. Excellent model and shot.

February 15th, 2009, 09:38 PM

Is anyone up to doing a .obj or poser conversion. I tried, but the textures won't match up.

evil_genius_180 · February 15th, 2009, 10:05 PM

That's probably a mapping/material translation problem. One fix would be to re-map the parts and re-apply the textures.

February 15th, 2009, 10:26 PM

Unfortunately, it a bit beyond my experience level. I tried using Carrara and poser to do it, but without success.

evil_genius_180 · February 15th, 2009, 11:28 PM

Translation errors between texture mapping/material settings in different software suites are one reason I hate converting. Another reason is mesh errors caused by the conversion. Sometimes it's easier to just build and texture a ship, IMO.

March 13th, 2009, 01:23 PM

Nice piece of work Tobias Richter made, eh?