Yeerk Pool Ship 3D Model

[AniDragon]

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.

[Azguard]

 dang,i wanna get those programs now!

[SuperBlue]

wow I thought I was the only one who used Maya. That's really good. I cnt wait to see the final version

[Azguard]

have u made any animorph stuff?

[Hylian Dan]

The texturing's not quite done yet, but I felt like posting this anyways. More images and stuff coming soon.


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.

[Dameg]

GREAT!!! *applause* "Bravo! Bravo!" ^^

[Hunter]

wow... just wow.... thats amazing!!!!!!111!!!!one

[Faerie Larka]

that. is. awesome!

[goom]

dude, that is EPIC.
i'd love a wide-screen wallpaper, but that's too much to ask.
[spoiler]please? [/spoiler]

[Hylian Dan]

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.



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.

[goom]

a little stretched, but it'll do for now

[Gafrash]

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?!

[Dameg]

Beautiful painting too! ^^ And thanks for the background.

[Azguard]

lol goom, i now know what ur desk top looks like.

[Hylian Dan]

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!