Over the past year or two I've gotten familiar enough with 3D spaceship modeling to develop a kind of workflow to produce ships with a certain amount of detail consistently. This year, I wanted to take on a challenge by going all-out on detailing. How much detail can I cram into a single model and how would that look? Well, one answer I figured: What about a cross section?
The goal was to create a starship with full interior at such a level of detail so that ad-hoc renders of the interior would give a decent enough idea of what the atmosphere and look is supposed to be. Here's a showcase of that big experiment and right off the bat I feel like there are clearly some rooms where this has worked better than others. Personally, I really like the Reactor Control Room & the Central Quarters Corridor. In the remaining rooms, I'll perhaps experiment with the lighting a bit more, add more details after the fact, and so on. But for a first run, I'm quite happy with how this starship turned out.
Obviously, this will not become my new workflow (I hope). But I do believe there's some merit to working on a single ship model for so long. Perhaps in other iterations, I'll at least take that kind of time for custom paneling, more purposeful UV mapping, and other elements.
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