Creature Chasm

Establishing shot for one of the planets, with a gaping hole in the surface. Another shot will show creatures spilling out of the center.

Orbiter Turntable...for REAL

Orbiter Turntable from Michael Janzen on Vimeo.

Here is a turntable of the orbiter. There's still a couple small technical tweaks like stretched textures and moving some polygons around, but other than that I'm satisfied with the progress :)

Feel free to check out the video in HD on Vimeo!
Critiques are always welcome.

Orbiter is blasting off AGAIN!!!

Finished!! It actually didn't take 2 months to put this together, but I worked on it here and there for 2 months. Lots of new skills were learned....and I hopefully not forgotten...

The actual model is used for my thesis as a "real" spaceship! But I also used it for my product class and designed them as "model" ships with little stands! Turntable will be up soon!

Thesis phase TWO!!!

So there wasn't really a phase one? But this shows the first stages of page layout, and then the more finalized version of page 01/02. Quite a dramatic change in my opinion! Lots of tweaking to do, changes to images and text....but this is what the entire journal should look like near the end.

WHOAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Here's a rough illustration of the shuttle launching from Kennedy Station. Needs more work, but I'm starting to enjoy the composition. Some finalized blueprints as well!! I wouldn't mind scuffing it up more and adding markings and "extra" lines here and there. Builds character.

Ship at Six!

Finished my first pass on textures and maps on the orbiter. Looking more "realistic" now with some good textures and colors. My uploading skills are awful, so this is a pretty rough video. Please check out the wonderful 4seconds in 720 dpi!!! It'll still look kinda not good...but when I finish the model I'll do a pretty turntable, I promise!!!

It's not even done YET!!

Progress of a planetary environment. I'm thinking of adding some bridges or landing platform near the foreground to make not so boorrrring, and maybe some planet silhouettes in the sky!

When will the space ships END!!!!!!

So I've been working on ships and shuttle designs for the past month or so...maybe longer! But this is the design I fell in love with. The previous versions were too traditional in their design, and the yellow ship felt too aggressive. It looked more like a jet fighter.

This little guy looks more like a ship that is used for exploration and travel. Round edges and a bulkier feel. A cozy one bedroom apartment! It's taken me a couple days to redo the 3D model and texture and paint the thing...and it'll take more time to get it to where I want it.

Environments from the "break"

I have a couple things. Yesterday, I did a couple environment concepts and tried modeling them out for a better camera shot. Top image is my favorite, and very work in progress. I wanted the structure to look like some sort of factory/temple.



I started out with some basic shapes, and then...played around and painted it! I was practicing scale with massive shapes. I'd imagine these fell from the planets orbit...maybe they are large satellites or broken gateways..I'd like to explore this concept more!



This one I'm just documenting on the blog...it's garbage...and it has potential, but needs work, and maybe a new camera angle. Comments and crits as always!

Planets For Everyone!!!

Here are some planets I've created all in 3DS Max, and then slapped them into space to see what it looks like. I'd like to make a couple everyday, until I get a good feeling for some of the planets I want to use in my thesis. Comments and critiques are always welcome :D