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Kenny_Naboo
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Pitch Black
Joined: January 11, 2010
Posts: 3823
From: LobsterTown
|  Posted: 2010-08-02 13:34
MI Dread: Nephilim
Just playing around with MI shapes.
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Rebellion
Marshal
Faster than Light
Joined: June 20, 2009
Posts: 730
From: sol
| Posted: 2010-08-02 13:41
looks like legion cruiser.
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Pakhos[+R]
Chief Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: May 31, 2002
Posts: 1352
From: Clean room lab
| Posted: 2010-08-02 13:45
you need to go blue already kenny..
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Bardiche
Chief Marshal
Joined: November 16, 2006
Posts: 1247
| Posted: 2010-08-02 14:20
MI Dreads are nearly Station sized, by the way. Not sure how big the current game model Stations are though. I hear they don't plan to upgrade them, so...
I like the model, but I'm not sure if it's really MI... The MI aren't really fish-like and this thing makes me think "octopus".
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Legatus Immolation
Marshal
Joined: December 20, 2004
Posts: 384
| Posted: 2010-08-02 14:35
why does that look familiar to a gaifen to me?
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Light-of-Aurora
Grand Admiral
Joined: December 01, 2003
Posts: 602
From: NJ, USA
| Posted: 2010-08-02 14:54
W-wow.. seems like we were thinking of the same thing..
The sketch I drew up last night looks so close in shape to what you've made; but on a more relevant note, good job!
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Shigernafy
Admiral
Joined: May 29, 2001
Posts: 5726
From: The Land of Taxation without Representation
| Posted: 2010-08-02 14:57
As I'm not a modeler, I don't know how its done, but if you notice the current Gaifen, their tentacles undulate a bit. Thus, we can handle animated models. And when someone gets around to making more space monsters, that could be good for them.
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YIIMM
Grand Admiral
Joined: June 16, 2005
Posts: 851
From: Barcino, Hispania Tarraconensis
| Posted: 2010-08-02 15:42
I definitely like the look of what you've done, I don't think I've seen any other fan art MI ships 
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The_Enforcer (The Vindicator)
Fleet Admiral
Joined: March 05, 2010
Posts: 163
From: another dimension
| Posted: 2010-08-02 18:02
looks sorta like a praetorian but with its wings arched out more, but good work
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Kenny_Naboo
Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: January 11, 2010
Posts: 3823
From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2010-08-02 18:57
Thanks for the comments.
Yeah... the ship came out a little more organic that I'd thought it would be. :\
LOL. I was actually flying a recon scout 2 days ago around Procyon and Eassl Octavius, circling this Praetorian and later, Longhead taking notes! 
MIs have an arrow shaped primary hull that's usually followed by a crescent shaped secondary hull, then some kinda wing and protrusions at the back.
I decided to split the secondary hull into an X-shape and then make the protrusions more curved. So I believe that the curving nature of that split secondary hull gave it a somehow organic look. Hmmm.....
Edit: A head on view of the ship somehow reminds of HR Giger's alien/xenomorph....
Hmm.... ideas.....
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Lunatiq
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Templar Knights
Joined: May 30, 2002
Posts: 292
From: Phoenix, AZ
| Posted: 2010-08-02 19:59
Almost has the head shape of the monsters in Pitch Black... I really like your work Kenny.
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Kenny_Naboo
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Pitch Black
Joined: January 11, 2010
Posts: 3823
From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2010-08-03 04:57
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As I'm not a modeler, I don't know how its done, but if you notice the current Gaifen, their tentacles undulate a bit. Thus, we can handle animated models. And when someone gets around to making more space monsters, that could be good for them.
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I'm actually halfway in one. One problem though.
LoL. I'm still learning n figuring out the animation part.
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Vice Admiral Onassi
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Joined: March 20, 2010
Posts: 44
From: Bridge of the Hot Needle of Inquiry
| Posted: 2010-08-03 06:57
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On 2010-08-02 14:57, Shigernafy wrote:
As I'm not a modeler, I don't know how its done, but if you notice the current Gaifen, their tentacles undulate a bit. Thus, we can handle animated models. And when someone gets around to making more space monsters, that could be good for them.
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We do need more space monsters.... And maybe even some, i hate to say it.. Runescape style random events. Like sometimes your ship gets sucked into a Time Space Vortex or something and you have to kill the hidious space monsters that reside inside to get out.
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Kenny_Naboo
Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: January 11, 2010
Posts: 3823
From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2010-09-29 11:45
Been taking some time off DS ships to create one for the EVE Starship design contest.
It's pretty high poly due to my use of surface subdivision to smooth out the curves. Last count was somewhere in the order of 60,000 polys or so.
Definitely lots of room for optimization as there're lots of hidden polies which I left in there and should be deleted.
Basically all I needed was an untextured model, but for the heck of it, I did a quick and simple texture + bump map job using some DS textures just to see what it would look like.
So if this ship doesn't make top 15, I can probably use it for DS after some modifications.
I think it could either be a new breed of MI or even a UGTO cruiser/dread.
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Red October
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Joined: May 30, 2010
Posts: 165
From: Stillwater, Oklahoma
| Posted: 2010-09-29 12:33
Man... that ship looks pretty vicious looking.
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