#SCI FI SHIPS CONCEPT ART FOR FREE#

I usually animate the mechanics of the ships landing gears, ramps, doors, etc. Decal Machine comes in handy here for quickly mapping a portion of the texture sheet. And I've started authoring a library of some generic sci-fi textures so I'll have more variety in the future. I liked this approach so much I've incorporated it into some of my current and future concepts, as well. Sometimes you know you want some detail somewhere but donвЂ™t exactly know what-having a custom texture and just playing around with the mapping can give some great unexpected results.

#SCI FI SHIPS CONCEPT ART FOR FREE#

You can get some details for free just messing around with the UV placement. It also helped with some more abstract areas. This approach helped me spend less time on a complicated shader to get the ship to feel grounded, as I got most of that from the texture. One thing I did differently on this piece was making a custom tileable/trim texture for the ship as opposed to just using some generic tileable panel heightmaps as I'd done previously. Keeping it simple and utilizing modifiers lets me try things out quickly. The modeling isnвЂ™t anything to write home about-as I mentioned before, to me design comes before topology. Seeing a design in the topology of your mesh and using the topology to execute it can be very limiting as youвЂ™re only seeing a subset of possibilities seeing a form in your mind and being able to execute it without much constraint is preferable. Separating your designs from the topology of your meshes is critical, in my opinion, to concepting with 3D. I feel those add-ons really aid the concept ideation process and creation of the final meshes because they make everything so fast. I used Substance Painter for some of the ship textures and the little character, and Photoshop for post-processing (color grading and some paint-overs).Д«ut the main tool for the majority of the piece was Blender, and some noteworthy add-ons I use almost daily for this piece and many others are Hard Ops and Boxcutter. I love the shots of the surface of Venus-muted greens with a little bit of red. I also looked at some of the planets in our solar system for color palettes. I try to follow the 3-shape rule that Star Wars utilizes for their ship designs it requires being able to describe or draw a ship using only 3 primary forms. ThereвЂ™s some Star Wars in there too, of course. InspirationДЇirst and foremost, I took some shape language from real-world garbage trucks as I didn't want the ship to feel like a real-world garbage truck with ship boosters on it. I also wanted to try some wilder color pallets than I'm usually comfortable with making a garbage truck ship on a trash planet was a great canvas for that. My ultimate goal is to do environment design and I feel it helps to design an environment around a subject matter.Д«ut I've had in my mind for a while to design a sci-fi garbage truck in the Star Warsy-utilitarian style I'm often doing. IвЂ™ve been concepting a few ships lately I think they give me the nice bridge of being able to concept something detailed, then something a bit more abstract in the form of the background and setting. Prior to starting university, my brother and I were always into making video games and he was the first of us to take the leap into 3D back in the day and taught me all the basics.Д®arlier on, titles like Star Wars, Morrowind, and The Dark Crystal really shaped me into wanting to design worlds, and so here I am. I graduated from the Academy of Interactive Entertainment in Melbourne then went on to work at a VR games studio before moving to the UK to work on Star Citizen. IвЂ™m from Melbourne, Australiaрџ¦ but currently overseas in the UK.

My nameвЂ™s Joel Azzopardi, IвЂ™m a senior environment artist II at Cloud Imperium Games.

Sci fi ships concept art