Awesome job, Tim! Had to put this up in case you haven’t seen it yet. Last month Matt Wright won the first Eavesdropper starship award, and Tim went out and did a low poly model!!!! It’s so nice that I am going to quit my job and go back to working in the grocery store because you CG guys are just too good!!!!!! HAAA! Thanks Tim and can’t wait to see what you’re going to do with her next!!!
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awesome!!
next to the cheesy drawing!!
Eavesdropping with Johnny 
Very Impressive CGI! 😉
Cool concept, anyone have an idea how a vessel as this would be used by Starfleet?
it’s a steller mapping and deep space research vessel!
You know that exactly wehat I was thnking it was, hehe.
Ah, way cool dude, good job, eh! 🙂
LLP,
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You got to love that model. You can find more fan models based on John’s sketches over at scifi-meshes.com. 😀
I never was clear if this was an existing design or you drew it up for the award? If it’s an old design, what’s it from?
it was originally a rough I drew when I was applying for the job over at Perpetual Entertainment, and fleshed it out a bit to be the award.
Awesome! Thanks Tim 😀
Your Welcome Matt 🙂
Nice, Suricata!! Did you round it out a little on purpose?
Yea, the USS MATT WRIGHT – so cool!!
Yeah, I tryed a more angular shape but I felt it didn’t flow as well from diferent angles, I’ll admit she’s lost a bit of her speedy look though, I’m sure theer are other guys / gals in the community that will do a high poly model of her.
Thanks for the kind comments by the way john, much appriciated, especialy from you!
It’s your artistic CG interpretation, so it’s fine with me! I’m impressed by your stuff!!
I do like the sleek and speedy look, so maybe someone will do a different interpretation.
Matt congrats!
Tim, nice model.
Dea, Howyadoin?
Fine, thank you! And you? 😀
I have my hands full with my latest class, though!! 😦
I’m okay, I wish I was listening to some live blues and drinkin mojitos, but I am working on client stuff and lsitening to 929.9 Davefm in Atlanta via the net.
I’ve not had a mojito, but I had a bushwhacker on St. Thomas last summer that was Mmm, Mmm, good! I’m not really a drinker though. I enjoy a lot of diff kinds of music, and some live blues would be nice!
Hittin’ the hay. Don’t work too hard!!
Nice work, Tim! I caught this on your blog the other day and was impressed with how well done it is!!
That’s a low-poly model? Sure doesn’t look like it. All my low-polys look like exactly that, a low-poly model. This is just beautiful, though. I wonder what the secret is.
I’ll admit I added the hull plates after I’d used a bump matt for them. Although I made it with the thought it would be used asa backgroud ship, similar to the ships used in First Contact. To me a high poly model is something you can scrap the paint off with a camera and not see its a 3d model! 🙂
Hmmm … I must do something nice for John Eaves so I get a cool Eaves ship named after me and built by Suricata, too. But not *too* nice, because I’m lazy.
Congrats, Matt! John and Tim did a spectacular job.
HA! That’s funny!! Lazy isn’t usually associated with awards, is it? 😆
“Congrats, Matt! John and Tim did a spectacular job.”
Ditto
I can’t help thinking, though, that Star Trek used to differenciate from other Sci Fi universes for the originality of the Starfleet vessels, the uniqueness of the “saucer-neck-engineering-nacelles” combination. The ships I’m seeing since Voyager show a trend towards the “one piece-triangular shape”, already seen on other franchises.
Yes, I know, I know: evolution. But, can we evolve without losing personality?
Sorry, got carried away.
Man you really brought John desgin to life.
It shame you could not keep the sharp lines, but it still looks speedy.
I’ll probaly have a look at it later and maker one with sharper lines, although I have a couple of other projects in the works atm, including the Science Donut vessel that I really really should finish!
Sweeeet! 😀