Space Ships 43 sec movie - 160x120 - ships.avi - [2.9Mb]

• This alien ship is part of a fleet which invades Earth Defense territory in a piece from my demo reel. At present, the ships leave their own solar system, jump into hyperspace, emerge above Earth, where a space station launches fighers to counter-attack. The fighters take a few shots at the ship, but that's where the scene ends for now. The scene will continue with one of these invaders getting destroyed, but not before it can launch its escape pod (centre hub.) The music that accompanies the .AVI file is from the soundtrack of the Henson movie, Labyrinth.

• I created the ship using a lot of boolean operations. I used tesselated balls, stretched in negative Y for the main shell-like body. For the neck, I used a box with a number of segments, and did a straight bevel on all polygons. The neat glowing panels and engine use the underwater texture supplied with Lightwave 3.0. In a moving picture, the waves on the engine panel radiate toward the back, and can be sped up as the ship accelerates using surface morphing.

• Being the kind of guy who likes to use what's given him, I used the DreadHull specularity map supplied with Lightwave 3.0 for specularity, diffuse, and bump maps on the surface of the ship.

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