ship rendering plus new website . . . fixed

[brendon]

Hello.
This is my first post to this forum. I finished up a degree in transportation design last December and now I'm doing freelance concept design work for videogames. Anyway, tell me what you think of the spaceship rendering below done in Painter. The second image has thumbnail sketches including the one that this rendering was based on. Also, take a look at my new website (http://www.brendonmackay.com) and tell me what you think of it.

Regards - Brendon

http://www.brendonmackay.com/images/veh1_full/veh01.jpg
http://www.brendonmackay.com/images/veh1_full/veh03.jpg

[tyboogie]

hey brendon---nice vehicle designs on your sight--and i liek the design of this one too--good stuff

just a question--if this ship is chrome or whatever where is the green coming from? is there something green in the sky---or does the metal have green in it? looks a little off


Good stuff though--keep posting-----ty

[ELWOOD]

hey man i'm redoing my website right now also in dreamweaver. Just wanted to say i dig your design and layout.really easy to move around.

[R_M]

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[egerie]

I agree with ELWOOD. I really like your website because it's clean, it's clear and easy to navigate. Plus your designs are pretty interesting :) By the way, your unicycle (http://www.brendonmackay.com/images/veh1_full/veh08.jpg) reminds me of an anime I watched yesterday called Venus Wars.
Anyways, again, really good job on the portfolio.

[brendon]

thanks for the responses.

Tyboogie - to your question. My intent was that the body surface be a green "supershiny" surface. I didn't mean to suggest that it's chrome and reflecting green back from the atmosphere. That said, my education has been in designing cars. It's fairly typical for car designs to be rendered in a stylized way. Now that I'm doing this I'll need to learn to render/paint more realistically. Any suggestions on how you'd make this rendering more believable would be great.

thanks - Brendon

[Ron]

cool design—different. I like your website too, interesting stuff on there. very professional.

keep posting! I love to see the sketch/final comparisons like you did on this post.

[tyboogie]

well im not sure how you would paint a ship that is green chrome--i guess the blue/white highlights would have alittle green in them? as opposed to just being green parts and then blue sky reflections ( on wing and main foreground nose)

but at this point it doesnt look like the ship is made out of a green colored metal--because of teh blue,white highlight reflections that make it look like its regular chrome that is reflecting the sky around it

[tyboogie]

just a thought

chrome/metal has a lot more contrast, but....


http://www.funktion-studios.com/tyler/ship.jpg

[Montross]

Hey Ty have you done any STAR WARS art? such as ships? Please post more ships up.:D:chug:

[Atmospheria]

this design is really cool brendon, i liked it alot.
but there is an issue. the far limb of the vehicle is a bit off i guess. i showed it on the image.just my opinion

http://www.partycule.com/concepts/brendon-ship.jpg

welcome to conceptart mate
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