Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Fan Fiction & Art => Topic started by: Hylian Dan on November 25, 2008, 11:05:29 PM
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Update:
More screens. Video coming soon.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Predator3.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Predator7.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Predator2.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Flying4.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Landing.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Landing2.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/TheAuxiliaryAnimorphs.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Space2.png
Update:
Wallpaper: The Pool Ship in Earth's orbit, from book 5
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/PoolShipwallpaper.png?t=1228792848
New image: The Pool Ship nesting in the wreckage, from book 53
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/PoolShiplanding.png?t=1228846763
Update: Texturing almost complete. More pictures and stuff coming soon.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/YeerkPoolShip.png)
Larger image: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/YeerkPoolShip.png
Suddenly, a window opened in one of the walls. It just grew, the same way the door had
before. Like the steel was alive. It formed a round porthole, large enough for all of us to see -
even Rachel, who could only turn her massive head enough to look with one eye.
I gasped.
Below us, blue and white and so beautiful it brought tears to your eyes, was Earth.
Sun sparkled off the ocean. Clouds swirled over the Gulf of Mexico, a big spiral, maybe a
hurricane.
<Look,> Cassie said simply.
We looked. Through the eyes of the animals of Earth, but with the minds of human beings,
we looked down at our planet.
Our planet.
For now, at least. For a little while longer.
Then something different came into view, as the Blade ship rotated away from Earth.
<This is why the Yeerks opened a window,> Ax said. <This is what they wanted us to see. So
that we would despair.>
The mother ship.
It was a gigantic, three-legged insect. The center was a single, bloated sphere. The sphere
was flatter on the bottom, and from the bottom hung a weird, mismatched series of tendrils.
Like the tendrils of a jellyfish. Each one must have been a quarter-mile long.
Around the sphere were three legs, bent up, then back down, exactly like a spider's legs.
<The legs are the engines,> Ax explained. <The tendrils hanging down below the belly are
weapons and sensors and energy collectors. That is also where the shipboard Kandrona is.
The Yeerks must bathe in the Yeerk pool every three days and absorb Kandrona rays. There
must be one on the planet below, too.>
<Yeah. We know,> I said. <Your brother told us. For all the good it did us.>
It just hung in orbit, like a predator gazing down hungrily at blue Earth below.
<I can't believe people on Earth don't see this on radar,> Rachel said. <I mean, it's huge. It's a
city!>
<It is shielded,> Ax said simply. <It cannot be seen by radar. And it would normally be
invisible to us. Visser Three is showing it to us. To terrify us.>
<He's doing a good job,> I said.
Original post:
So I'm taking an intro to 3D art course, and for a final project I have to texture and animate something. I chose to try to create the Yeerk Pool Ship landing from book 53. I only have a few weeks to do this, so for now I'm just showing the Pool Ship and the ground, not all the other stuff that's going on.
Here's the illustration I based my model on:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/YeerkPoolShipSchematic.jpg
And here's my Pool Ship model as of now, without any textures. Keep in mind I'm pretty new to 3D art/Maya, and I only have a short time to put this together. Made this much in two days:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Screen4.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Screen3.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Screen2.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Screen1.jpg
Comments/advice appreciated.
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where did you get the pool ship schematic?
and your modeling is awesome! i can tell it will be the bomb when you're finished!
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It looks really good! :D I can't believe you did that much so quickly.
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that looks great.
can't wait to see what it looks like when you add some texture. ;)
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where did you get the pool ship schematic?
I believe the schematics for the various ships in the Animorphs series can still be found on their official Scholastic site if i'm not mistaken.
Anyways, good job with it so far. I'm sure you'll get a really good grade for it :D
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whoa... i love it, i can't wait till u finish it!
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It's great! I'm waiting for the textures too ^^
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i've seen one for the domeship and the blade ship. but never one for the pool ship!
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where did you get the pool ship schematic?
I believe the schematics for the various ships in the Animorphs series can still be found on their official Scholastic site if i'm not mistaken.
Also can be found on Truth's Animorphs site, the Hirac Deleste
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:o nice job ;D
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Very nice! :D That's an awesome project to get to do.
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I got the ship schematic here. (http://hiracdelest.com/download-status.htm)
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lol, of course, how could i have missed that?
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Awesome!!! Can't wait for the texture!
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ooh very cool!
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Very cool! I've been planning on doing that one, too, once I have access to 3DSMax again.
I definitely have to give you kudos for doing it on Maya. I have so much trouble modeling on that... It's great for texturing, but I've always had trouble modeling on it.
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dang,i wanna get those programs now!
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wow I thought I was the only one who used Maya. That's really good. I cnt wait to see the final version
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have u made any animorph stuff?
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The texturing's not quite done yet, but I felt like posting this anyways. More images and stuff coming soon.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/YeerkPoolShip.png)
Larger image: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/YeerkPoolShip.png
Suddenly, a window opened in one of the walls. It just grew, the same way the door had
before. Like the steel was alive. It formed a round porthole, large enough for all of us to see -
even Rachel, who could only turn her massive head enough to look with one eye.
I gasped.
Below us, blue and white and so beautiful it brought tears to your eyes, was Earth.
Sun sparkled off the ocean. Clouds swirled over the Gulf of Mexico, a big spiral, maybe a
hurricane.
<Look,> Cassie said simply.
We looked. Through the eyes of the animals of Earth, but with the minds of human beings,
we looked down at our planet.
Our planet.
For now, at least. For a little while longer.
Then something different came into view, as the Blade ship rotated away from Earth.
<This is why the Yeerks opened a window,> Ax said. <This is what they wanted us to see. So
that we would despair.>
The mother ship.
It was a gigantic, three-legged insect. The center was a single, bloated sphere. The sphere
was flatter on the bottom, and from the bottom hung a weird, mismatched series of tendrils.
Like the tendrils of a jellyfish. Each one must have been a quarter-mile long.
Around the sphere were three legs, bent up, then back down, exactly like a spider's legs.
<The legs are the engines,> Ax explained. <The tendrils hanging down below the belly are
weapons and sensors and energy collectors. That is also where the shipboard Kandrona is.
The Yeerks must bathe in the Yeerk pool every three days and absorb Kandrona rays. There
must be one on the planet below, too.>
<Yeah. We know,> I said. <Your brother told us. For all the good it did us.>
It just hung in orbit, like a predator gazing down hungrily at blue Earth below.
<I can't believe people on Earth don't see this on radar,> Rachel said. <I mean, it's huge. It's a
city!>
<It is shielded,> Ax said simply. <It cannot be seen by radar. And it would normally be
invisible to us. Visser Three is showing it to us. To terrify us.>
<He's doing a good job,> I said.
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GREAT!!! *applause* "Bravo! Bravo!" ^^
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wow... just wow.... thats amazing!!!!!!111!!!!one
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that. is. awesome!
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dude, that is EPIC.
i'd love a wide-screen wallpaper, but that's too much to ask.
[spoiler]please? ;D[/spoiler]
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Wallpaper (I think this is the best size I can get on Photobucket):
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/PoolShipwallpaper.png?t=1228792848
I'll probably redo these images in a few days after I do bump mapping and lighting and stuff, but I'm not in the mood for that now. So I procrastinated and made this.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/PoolShiplanding.png?t=1228791459)
I could see the Pool ship, still resting beside the crater that had once been the Yeerk pool. Could
they see me, Visser One and his Yeerks? They could if they tried. I wasn't invisible. But they didn't attack,
didn't send a Bug fighter up to Dracon me.
Why not? Maybe Tom's Yeerk wasn't ready to kill me, yet.
Or maybe Visser One saw me, knew what I was, and waited, like the spider in his web watching the fly. He wanted me to come to him.
He wanted me as badly as I wanted him.
Careful what you wish for, Visser.
Careful what you wish for, Jake.
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a little stretched, but it'll do for now :)
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Well done! Even the cables down the bottom you've done well!
I am not sure about the lava-looking-red lights, but the Pool ship looks authentic!!! Great work!
Was this done with Maya? I can't even begin to use that program!!!
How long did it take ya, Hylian Dan?!
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Beautiful painting too! ^^ And thanks for the background.
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lol goom, i now know what ur desk top looks like.
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Well done! Even the cables down the bottom you've done well!
I am not sure about the lava-looking-red lights, but the Pool ship looks authentic!!! Great work!
The red lines are my interpretation of the lines in the schematic I based the model on. I tried a couple of approaches to them, liked this one the best. I'm still at work on the project, and I have yet to add bump mapping and proper lighting.
I wanted the ship to seem like a gross, bloated, living organism. The design of the ship's "head" is meant to have a few similar features as a Yeerk, based on book 29's illustration. The red lines on the head sort of look like a Yeerk swimming forwards.
Was this done with Maya? I can't even begin to use that program!!!
How long did it take ya, Hylian Dan?!
Yeah, it's a Maya project. It was assigned a week before Thanksgiving, and I've been working on it ever since then. Modeling took about two days, UV unwrapping took two days, texturing took three long days, and since then I've been running into a ton of problems and glitches and setbacks. Rigging it for animation took a full week.
It's my final project for my Intro to 3D Art class, due this Thursday. Prior to this project, I had made a stapler, textured a crate and barrel, and animated a pen in Maya.
If all goes well, I should have a youtube video of this thing in motion posted by next weekend.
Thanks for the comments!
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(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/TheAuxiliaryAnimorphs.png)
This is just a mock-up of a piece of fan art I want to work on eventually. I threw this together quickly in an image editing program that wasn't Photoshop, on my laptop with its fingerpad, hence the poor quality of the animals and tanks.
My animation is almost done. For now, here are a couple more screens of the ship:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Predator3.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Predator7.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Predator2.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Flying4.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Landing.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Landing2.png
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/hyliandan/Space2.png (Drag and drop onto any background you want)
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wow... thats freakin awesome!
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yeah, those are awesome!!
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Great!!! ^^
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That is AH-mazing!!!
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http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=104217050206&oid=2204381924
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuWP3HtknZM
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thats feckin awesome!.... it turned out amazing!
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Wowow!!!!
Good video! Maybe a little too hesitating when it arrives on the planet...
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It looked a little wobbly before landing, but other than that it was pretty sweet.
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Schweet!