Serenity 2 - The tutorial

Sean Kennedy · January 26th, 2006, 03:57 PM

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Work has been a bear and I've been putting a lot of time into a Serenity modeling tutorial for Lightwave.

The original thread was started over at Lightwave Group and is up to 712 replies in 6 weeks.
This is the progress so far:

Andy M · January 27th, 2006, 02:37 PM

Cool looking mesh .... thanks for spending the time to make the tutorial, definately on my 'ToDo' list now,

Andy

Sean Kennedy · January 27th, 2006, 02:47 PM

thanks!

Darrell Lawrence · January 27th, 2006, 03:41 PM

Looks good, Sean.

Mind if I link them into our Tutorial section?

February 6th, 2006, 07:57 PM

Thank you Sean - i'm learning a great deal so many thanks for taking time to put this together!

February 13th, 2006, 05:39 AM

Wow! She looks beautiful! Impressive detail. I love it.

February 24th, 2006, 01:44 PM

Yeah that is a great Tutorial

scaramanga · February 25th, 2006, 04:46 PM

All right, even though I use max this should come in handy.

Thank you very much!

March 4th, 2006, 02:15 PM

that serenity is as nice as a firfly? is that what it's made like?

Sean Kennedy · March 7th, 2006, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by etwtewtew

that serenity is as nice as a firfly? is that what it's made like?

Yes. That's it exactly. Only this is the movie version, not the TV version.

gmd3d · March 7th, 2006, 03:16 PM

AWESOME !!!!!!!! I have just started to model .. I will be adding this to my todo list...

Sean Kennedy · March 7th, 2006, 03:33 PM

Cool! Hope this works for everyone. I've been running into some serious system issues at home so I haven't done much in the last week or so.

March 14th, 2006, 02:16 AM

thank for the tutorial, Sean!

April 25th, 2006, 07:07 PM

My God.... that's beautiful. I have to ask though, is the primary buffer panel detachable?

Sean Kennedy · April 26th, 2006, 12:02 PM

LOL!

BTW: I have been working on the tutorial but none of it is in PDF format yet. If you want to catch up you can take a look at the Works in Progress forum at the Lightwave Group. As soon as I get the PDF's caught up I will post links to them here.

Until then here are some more tidbits:

And a quick little AVI of the cargo hold
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/cargo3.avi

gmd3d · April 26th, 2006, 01:29 PM

Looks stunning Sean

I am in awe looking at the work so far .. its taken me week to get the over all shape of my first mesh right and that would be simple stuff you you.... I hope the system issues have been resolved

Sean Kennedy · April 26th, 2006, 01:33 PM

Yeah. finally. I also just got back from an animation seminar so I'll be able to put those skills to use soon.

EDIT: just do the first four or five parts of the tutorial and you learn skills that will speed up your modeling process.

gmd3d · April 26th, 2006, 01:48 PM

Cool ........

I have learn a bit by Trial and lots of errors .. but now I understand more I will spend more time on your Lession

April 27th, 2006, 09:01 PM

Been wanting to do this one myself. Beautiful work.

May 2nd, 2006, 02:14 AM

I was looking for a reason to reinstall Lightwave. Thanks

evil_genius_180 · May 4th, 2006, 08:13 PM

What app are you using, Starwolf?

evil_genius_180 · May 5th, 2006, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starwolf

This 3d stuff is really cool, I have always had a desire to produce high quality artwork, I just never had the talent to do so by hand.

I hear you on that one. Computer art is my last refuge. Well, I hope you'll share some of your art with us.

Sean Kennedy · May 5th, 2006, 11:40 AM

If you guys want a bunch of generis tutorials try this site:
http://www.3dlinks.com/links.cfm?cat...categoryid=115

On the left hand side are links to tutorials for other 3d programs and links to free model sites.

May 6th, 2006, 07:29 PM

Sean, you always do such gorgeous work... your Valley Forge is one of my favourite examples, and this looks to be stunning. thank you SO much for sharing the tutorial... This is phenominally helpful!

-jaime

Sean Kennedy · October 1st, 2006, 01:32 PM

Ok guys. Sorry for the late posting..... Here are nore updates to the texturing of the ship.

October 2nd, 2006, 07:51 AM

Wow, that's professional-level work.

Sean Kennedy · October 2nd, 2006, 10:07 AM

Thanks!

October 3rd, 2006, 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nyrath

Wow, that's professional-level work.

Professional? Absolutely! What impresses me the most is the texturing, very well done. The mesh is spot on, imho, but the texturing is outstanding.

Sean, how long did it take you to produce the textures for the mesh? That must have been image map hell, lots of time with photoshop?

An outstanding effort, without question.

Sean Kennedy · October 3rd, 2006, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nurbz

Professional? Absolutely! What impresses me the most is the texturing, very well done. The mesh is spot on, imho, but the texturing is outstanding.

Sean, how long did it take you to produce the textures for the mesh? That must have been image map hell, lots of time with photoshop?

An outstanding effort, without question.

OK....what part are we talking about? The Shuttle or the whole ship?
The shuttle took me a week. I've been working on the textures for the whole Serenity mesh for quite a wjile now. I have been working on the textures for the entire ship since June, but I've also been writting the modeling tutorial at the same time. One of the reasons why it's taking so long.....I have been working on the Serenity modeling tutorial since November 1st, 2005....

Sean Kennedy · October 16th, 2006, 05:54 PM

This weekend I collaborated with Lynn Lefey and produced a new variant on the Firefly class spaceship, using my old mesh as a base.
The mesh and deck plans are for use with the Serenity Role Playing Game.
The variant is based on a description from the rule book of a blockade runner version of the ship used during the Alliance/Indenpendent war.

here is a zip file containing the custom blockade runner schematics (4.11MB)
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/..._custom_BR.zip

here is a zip file containing the standard blockade runner schematics (5.6MB)
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...firefly_BR.zip

Each image is 2000x2000 pixels

The Deckplans were produced by Lynn:

Custom blockade runner - Crew deck
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...r-mod-crew.jpg

Custom blockade runner - Missle deck
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...od-middeck.jpg

Custom blockade runner - Cargo deck
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/...er-mod-cgo.jpg