POLYDECTES Aeran Escort Corvette

[pyramid]

I am starting a new thread for this vessel (as every one deserves its own).

Following is Oblivion's proposed concept design in this thread:

POLYDECTES

Via email, jackS was so friendly as to comment on the here presented concept. I want to share this authoritative guidance with the artist(s) that would like to take the challenge of further improving the current concept. Authoritative in this context means according to the UTCS (Upon the Coldest Sea) cannon and aligned with manufacturing styles of the faction by which the vessel in question was manufactured.

Basic concept is sound. Could use some additional indications of retro/lateral thrusters and, like most art from this period, wouldn't suffer from having some radiator surfaces added, but the overall feel of the ship is good, and the Aeran aesthetic is clear. Maybe the radiator fins could go at the back? The thing that actually really jumps out at me looking at that picture is a reminder that many of our turret models are in need of replacement/revisiting/re-imagining/etc.

Anybody willing to continue with the design?

[programmerandrew]

Via email, jackS was so friendly as to comment on the here presented concept. I want to share this authoritative guidance with the artist(s) that would like to take the challenge of further improving the current concept. Authoritative in this context means according to the UTCS (Upon the Coldest Sea) cannon and aligned with manufacturing styles of the faction by which the vessel in question was manufactured.

Is this your standard response for everything?

I'm pretty good at modeling off of something.. But I absolutely suck at modeling from scratch (as chuck_starchaser was so kind to point out in my elephant container ship topic. It wasn't that I didn't know how to do anything other than cylinders and cubes, but that I had utterly no imagination at all so i just made it from cubes an spheres.) I'm still working on learning to make textures correctly though... my texturing is always off...

Andrew

P.S. @ Pyramid For your automated response it's canon instead of cannon

[pyramid]

... it's canon instead of cannon ...

For a non-native speaker the two words (canon, cannon) sound (almost) all the same. And I do admit that I mix them up all the time. Thanks for getting my attention, though. Hopefully this will help me remember the right word at the right place.

[Nózmájner]

The minister had given me a bunch of ship descriptions, practicly the whole aera fleet, for concepting, canonizing.
I've already made a vague sketch of this ship, for retro, lateral and radiator integration, with maintaining the current design.
I'm just waiting for his response on that and some other sketches, but he seems quite busy recently.

Anyway, here's that first draft, very basic (with some additional fooling around with the shape, but that haven't brought out anything decent.)


I've made some more detailed sketches of other ships too, also waiting for review, but I can post them too, if wanted.

[pyramid]

I've made some more detailed sketches of other ships too, also waiting for review, but I can post them too, if wanted.

That's great. Yes, please post other concepts, too. They tend to get lost when not submitted to a public place.
*EDIT* I've posted before reading your other thread with the concepts submitted.