I was just asked to design 6 space craft and 6 planets for a William Shatner project. Once the concepts are approved they need to modeled and have a little bit of animation done to them. The group asked if I knew anyone with 3D skills that might want to take on this part of the project. I told them I know where to find the best so Here is where I am posting the announcement. The models will get high visibility and it could be a great door opening project, the only down side is It is a cashless job so it would be a work for fun and exposure project,,, If anyone of you brilliant CG-
ers are interested drop me a line.
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Apr
09
Eavesdropping with Johnny 
If my modellling skill was up to the task I would jump at this, but alas not.
However I say this would be perfect for deg.
Would make a great place to start to get into the industry. 😀
I already sent Deg a note about it and wanted to offer it out to everyone here as well,, maybe six guys will want it then everyone can each have there own ship.
I would love to get involved in this too, if I was good enough, but I’m sure there’s much better modelers around here. Sounds very cool though.
if you want to give er ago too I would love to pass on a part of it to you,,,send me to where I can see your work and we can talk about it.
COUNT ME IN!!!!
Whatta I gotta do? Just tell me, me do! And do real good!
Build your designs, for a SHATNER project! Dude! I’ll pay them, LOL!
I’m your model-monkey, eh! Let’s do this thang up! 😀
LLP,
deg
I was waiting to hear from you!! I sent them 22 pages of sketches and they are picking 6 right now. I should have the chosen roughs back tomorrow… I love what you did with the saucer so perhaps we should design the details as a team.
Not to hog, but if needed, heck, I’ll crank as many out as needed, eh.
Just a matter of time to do it! I wanna test/form/hone my production speed modelin’ chops anywho. I was JUST talkin’ about this to my Mom in email when I got your email. Oh man, God is good, eh! Always amazed, never surprised, eh!
Let me know more details as you gets ’em John. 😀
Woo-hoo! Made me day buddy-boy, made me day! Thanks! 😀
PLL,
deg
Sounds a good to me, my friend. And thanks glad you likey. That was an über-quickie job. Check out my finished Ryan design on my “on the bench…” area. That’s a whole other level of modeling than I did on your saucer design.
With any luck of time, your designs will get the same treatment as that, eh. 🙂
LLP,
deg
Ah! What an opportunity! I’d love to be considered for this, John. You can see some of my stuff at http://www.neoworxstudio.com. FYI: I’m working on a SOTL piece for next year through Doug. This kind of thing would be awesome to be involved with! Please LMK what you think, and thanks!!!
wow awesome work and loved the Pan am ship on the launch pad!!! OK I’ll have more info tomorrow
Awesome. Thanks, John! 2001 was an early influence with me and that shot is kind of an homage. The Orion is an all-time favorite of mine.
I don’t have any 3D skills. But if anyone requires tech consulting or needs something to be reviewed, count me in.
thanks for throwing yourself out there!!!
Yeah guys, don’t sell yourself short, step up and show your work and let John and/or the producers decide, eh.
Fortune favors the bold, eh!
Nice stuff Don! 😀
LLP,
deg
Thanks deg. This kind of thing would be right up our alley, I would think. (fingers crossed)
Hey deg! I just picked up a copy of LightWave 9 for $40 off of eBay (steal of the century if you ask me!). I’ve been using 3DS Max, so I may pick your brain sometime for some mentorin’ 🙂
I’d be VERY interested in making space ships…Theyre pretty much the only things I love working on in 3D 😀
sounds cool Dave!!! Do you have your work up to view???
Heres a collection of alot of older stuff with some new (namely the New Movie Enterprise as WIP).
Alot of this stuff Is WIP, but I lost alot of final renders after my hard drive failed on me, I have backups with a friend though So i can get them back tomorrow hopefully.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v438/Dac/Portfolio/
Gah, sorry about that. Took me ages to figure out how to make it public. HOPEFULLY it should work now, again sorry about that 🙂
well done I saw them an love what you’ve done,,, like the new Enterprise your working on too
Personally, I loath the act of 3D modeling and avoid it at any cost. However, I do quite like rigging, scenography and animation, so if the “little bit of animation” you mentioned is anything more complex than just a little spin-around to show off the model, I might be able to chip in there.
I don’t believe that there is much more that something like that,,, thanks
Hey,
I’m head of the ST: Excalibur project, meaning i have a lot of experience with 3D for space ships, and i also work with 3d visualization every day (mostly architecture though)
If you need to see any High poly CG models, i have a couple renders i can send you for a “personnal portfolio”
There’s also a good deal of then at my CG Society portfolio:
http://lcamaral.cgsociety.org/gallery/
Just drop me a mail if you want to talk about it.
LC
yes please do!
Hey John,
Here’s a brief collection of the (public) models from Excalibur project.
Keep in mind that those are ingame models, with low poly counts, and most of the details are textured.
http://picasaweb.google.com.br/lcamaral/ExcaliburStuff?authkey=Gv1sRgCKWkwJr-8ruYXQ#
LC
very nice work and especially loved that Mustang
I’d be willing to give her a go, if ya’d have me! 🙂 Here’s some samples: http://www.startrekunity.com/samplework.html
Woooooo-Weee awesome work dude, Ok have more info tom.
Yay! Thanks so much John!
If they need anything like character Animation I think I can help Im proficient in Maya 8.5
and have done realistic & cartoony creatures/humans & vehicles here’s my demo!;)
http://www.vimeo.com/4379025
There is some coming so keep reminding me about you!
wow ok great thank you!
that was some awesome work!!! love the smooth running of the grey scale assassin, better then the clone wars running characters.
Alright, great stuff. CAn’t see yours though Dave C on photobucket. 😦
Nice ani reel, Perry! 🙂
LLP,
deg
oh thank you Deg!!
Matt Boardman: Hey deg! I just picked up a copy of LightWave 9 for $40 off of eBay (steal of the century if you ask me!). I’ve been using 3DS Max, so I may pick your brain sometime for some mentorin’
Hmmmmmmm…… 40 bucks? Are you sure that’s not a cracked pirated copy, dude? eBay is infamous as an abode for selling illegal software, cheap, at “unbelievable” prices.
And I personally can’t abide any type of pirating, be it software, or films, or music, as that just steals from other artists, hurts the overall industry, is illegal, and is just wrong, IMO.
If it sounds too good to be true, chanced are very good it is, esp. on eBay.
You best check that out first, and let me know, eh.
LLP,
deg
I’ll keep you posted. Guy said that he only used it for 6 months. I’ve been bitten by eBay before…let’s hope it’s not a pirated version.
The only things stopping me are a complete lack of talent, skill and experience, and a limited imagination. 🙂
But what a terrific opportunity for people with all those things! And how incredibly gracious to reach out to folks via your blog, Mr. Eaves! Class! Class I say!
I’m SO with ya, Jay! I won’t be able to get into CG software until the fall, at least. Even then…well, what you said! Yes, Mr. Eaves is a class act. 🙂
your very kind Jay, and thanks. I have to say thanks again also to Doug Drex for pushing this blog,, it is turning out to be more than I was expecting and I love how it could be an open door to get everyone’s creativity and talent out of the garage and into some cool careers. Sure have met some great new friends here and so enjoy all the interest in the same silly things that I like.
I’ll throw my name in as well.
Here’s a gallery with some of my models:
http://www.foundation3d.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/38
woo baby that was some tight work!!! thanks for sending it over.
Thanks!
Well, there’s the whole process of license transfer with NewTek that has to be done, eh. That’s a sure sign right there if it’s legal. That, and if it comes in all the official packaging, and the dongle.
Years ago, I bought my copy of LightWave 7.5 and modo 101 off eBay, but I made sure all the legalities were place and in process with NewTek and Luxology, and requested email confirms from the companies themselves, as to the seller’s proposed license transfer.
If he has not spoken of any of this, chances are good he’s trying to run pirated software.
Then again, maybe he just isn’t savvy as to all that needs to be done. But upon opening and installing any major software, it comes with a user agreement that everyone agrees to, just to get going, but never really reads, and that reading is to understand all the things you are agreeing to, and that includes potential transfer legalities and the processes needed thereof, if done.
Maybe you’ll get lucky, and he’s just didn’t read the agreement and thus knows nothing about what needs to be done.
Or, he’s a pirate, and you just bit it. We’ll see. Still, that sounds just like a “quickie” pirate price, too low for most folks to feel they have all that much to lose taking the chance.
LLP,
deg
I’ll keep my fingers crossed. It was put up as an auction and not a “Buy It Now”, but that never means anything…
thanks for all your insight and opinions on this!!! well said
Hey PepeWan! Alright dude, good to see ya! Your stuff always impressed me, eh. And it takes a lot to do that. 😀
LLP,
deg
Back atcha, deg!
Okay, what the heck. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I didn’t at least throw my hat in the ring on this one.
John, you can see some of the modeling work I’ve done on the following projects:
U.S.S. Grandeur – http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-wips/638-uss-grandeur-final-version.html
Modified TOS Enterprise – http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-wips/37615-conjectural-trek-xi-enterprise.html
I’ve got 3 or 4 others I can reference as well but I don’t want to bog down this post with a bunch of URLs.
Ironically, one of the things I’m best known for is an April Fool’s sketch of a possible design for the new Star Trek movie that appeared on TrekMovie.com year before last. I figure it’s worth mentioning because I deliberately tried to imitate your style when I drew it and had more than one person fooled into thinking it might be your work, which of course was the whole point. 😉
Jason is top notch! Love your stuff on SciFi Meshes, dude!
I’ll be honest: I really like that April Fool’s ship, I think it’s a really well-done design.
haaa that one still makes me laugh,,, thanks Joe
That is one smoke-n nice Enterprise!!! love all the little extras you added with the dish detail and the addition of the torpedo ports and inset saucer hatches…. thanks for throwing your hat into the ring I’ll keep you up on what is happening
that’s a great lil animation and love the shadow play thru the mountains well done Vektor
That is one smoke-n nice Enterprise!!! love all the little extras you added with the dish detail and the addition of the torpedo ports and inset saucer hatches…. thanks for throwing your hat into the ring I’ll keep you up on what is happening
Damn… if I was any good at texturing I’d put myself forward, but I’m only experienced at modeling so far.
Good luck to the others, sounds like it’ll be a great opportunity. Especially deg, I know this couldn’t have come at a better time for you. 😉
Thanks for the best wishes and keep up on your work Mister Man!!!
Thanks, John. Hmm. The others are right, it’d be silly not to jump at this chance even if the odds are against me. This is a link to the CG section of my deviantArt gallery. 🙂
http://www.snazz84.deviantart.com/gallery/#CGI-Work
Thanks jpearse. 🙂
Indeed, and that is what I humbly and forever thankfully regard as, divine timing. Like I said; Always amazed, never surprised. 😀
LLP,
deg
I’ve been lurking around here for a while (and simultaneously haunting Drex’s and Mojo’s blogs as well), and I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve written here.
With great talents like deg and Vektor on the boards, my meager skills may seem rather pale, but I’d never forgive myself if I didn’t toss my hat into this ring.
You can see some of my animations on YouTube at this address:
http://www.youtube.com/user/buckaroohawk
Not hi-res stuff, but an indication of what I like to do, at any rate. I don’t have any photos of my work online, but if anyone would like to see anything, drop me a line and I’ll dig through my files.
Thanks for listening. Hope you like what you see!
Buckaroohawk
that’s a great lil animation and love the shadow play thru the mountains well done Vektor
I put vektor on this one,,,, sorry Buckaroo
Not a problem, John. With all the comments flying around this post a little confusion is invitable. If there’s anything I can do to help with the project I can be reached at buckaroohawk@yahoo.com.
Thanks for taking the time to watch. Glad you liked it!
Hey Vektor, alright dude. Good to see ya, eh! 🙂
NP Perry. 😉
LLP,
deg
Matt Boardman: I’ll keep my fingers crossed. It was put up as an auction and not a “Buy It Now”, but that never means anything…
Well, that’s a kinda good sign, eh. I’ll cross my fingers for you as well my friend. 😀
And thanks Buckaroohawk! 😀 And yeah! step up, dude! Nothing to lose, and nothing ventured, nothing gained, eh!
LLP,
deg
John,
I’m a modeler for a software and game company and I’d be interested in assisting with this project.
There’s images here: http://oregonstate.edu/~huffmanm/blueeidolon/gallery/stills.php of spacecraft and character work a coworker and I have done, and a gallery here: http://realflight.com/gallery/gpmz4116-gallery.html containing published work.
No matter who you pick*, good luck to you and Mr. Shatner on your project.
*(Please please please…)
–Marshall
By the way, I can be reached at episodenull@yahoo.com, or through the TrekBSS with the username I have here.
is all of that your work??? wholly cow your incredible
It’s about 50/50. On the spacecraft page, the Procyon, tool case and tools are 100% mine, from the design to the modeling texturing and lighting. The Sachoff is part mine, part my coworker’s–I did the basic design and roughed out the mesh, then passed it over to him for final modeling, detailing and texturing. The spaceman is a mixed design, modeled and textured by my partner, and rigged and lit by me.
I also did the planets and renders seen all over the webpage.
I’d have to think about it to recall off the top of my head who did what for RealFlight, but of note, given your love for the plane, I did do the ME 262. 😉
Thanks for the compliments, guys. I’m glad you both like our work.
Love the design and modeling on the Sachoff there! 🙂
Good to see you, too, Deg. See, occasionally I really do talk to other people. 😉
As much as I would love to have this type of learning experience, I don’t think my skills are up to it, I’m just too slow. I’ll leave it to the pros and hope we can at least see some of the projects in wip form. Besides, I made a new years resolution to finish what I start before jumping on to something new, wich is already out the door since I just shelved my Z-95 headhunter wip and posted your USS Ramjet wip over at sci-fi meshes. I’d really love if you posted on the process from design to cg.
Ok we’ll let you slide on this one but better be ready for the next call!!!
Joe McMullen (PepeWan): I’ll be honest: I really like that April Fool’s ship, I think it’s a really well-done design.
Ditto, Joe. 🙂
Vektor: Good to see you, too, Deg. See, occasionally I really do talk to other people.
Ahahaha, Jason! 😉 Well, you have your own blog now too my friend, so I guess you’ll get lotsa practice, eh. Time? Blogs can eat that right up quick, eh. Reason I’ll never start one. Never say never though, as famous last words, LOL. 😉
LLP,
deg
Late to the party again. I dunno if Im up to snuff or not but most of my current work can be found at foundation3D http://www.foundation3d.com under the nick of Madkoifish. Id direct you to my website but it is offline for some time. You can reach me at SFM too. Attachment space is limited there so only the recent works are visible.
MKF-
Strange says I posted the reply with links but it doesn’t show not the first time on these WP blogs,
http://www.foundation3d.com/forums/search.php?searchid=130260
Could be it doesn’t like the php strings. This should simplify the search, shouldn’t need to be a member to see the contents.
MKF-
I’m having the same problem
There’s PHP in the links I posted and they’re showing up fine—at least on my end.
I believe your are underestimating your talents mister,,, I thought your work was great, well done and thanks for sending over the link!
I’m game if you’ll have me. Mostly what I do is Trek but I can do other stuff. I’ve tried posting images of my work but this thing isn’t showing the posts and when I retry it says I already posted it but it’s not there. I dunno if you can get my e-mail from my post here, if not you can reach me at http://www.3dscifi.com/ My handle is evil_genius_180 over there also. I’ve got lots of work over there you can see or I can e-mail you some stuff.
I couldn’t get into your gallery but I know your work well.
Thanks and if there is another place to view let me know.
Hmm, I made a post with some images but the blog seems to of swallowed them.
I’m defiantly up for this project, I can speed model pretty well and have the time to commit to a project right now as well. I can be reached at timdavies@hotmail.com, I can also be reached at SFM
My website is down atm, so I can’t link to it, I’ll try and get a temporary one set up later (at work atm)
STINKING Computers!!!! yeah send what you can get to work,,, love to see.
If you guys are posting messages with multiple links, WordPress may be flagging them for moderation as a spam control issue. Mr. Eaves or someone else with admin/editor privileges then has to approve them before they appear in the comments list. I put two links in mine and it didn’t show up for at least a half hour.
True. The posts I added earlier all said they were awaiting moderation; those messages went away an hour or so ago.
I have had posts give me “awaiting moderation” I know what that looks like. What Evil Genius and I are dealing with is totally different. The odd behavior means those posts will NEVER be seen on the blog, they are blocked or just vanish in the ether.
This happened when I attempted to post WIP updates to the doughnut thread with a list of Imageshack urls, those posts NEVER showed up on the blog and that was weeks ago. To note too every time I get this at wordpress it is when Im in reply mode. Probably some sort of url limit or other odd restriction in some TOS listing somewhere on the WP site.
madkoifish (I’m prefacing this because your post doesn’t seem to have a “Reply” link under it, so I don’t know quite where this post will end up):
That’s really weird. I haven’t ever seen anything like that. When you hit the “Submit” button, what does the screen do?
Yeah replay is only one chain deep, hit reply it acts like it normally does just loads the page. Back up or reply again with the same text (I have picked up the habit of copying anything I type) and it’ll give you a “you already said that” If you change your post but leave the urls it’ll just keep going. It could be a bug of some kind I dunno.
Doesn’t really matter atm since both of us found other ways around it. Just frustrating.
I just mocked up a quick gallery in imageshack with what I have hosted there, but alot of it is just WiP stuff
OK that worked good. thanks for the effort.
It’s been a treat to check out some of the links that have actually shown up so far. I must say I’m impressed and motivated…great stuff! Nice to see this opportunity for some very talented new friends I’ve made on this site. Actually everyone that posts comments on this blog has in some way been a teacher, bringing me new insights into the Trek Universe.
Good Luck, all of you!! I look forward to seeing what this talented group can produce (if John is nice enough to post it). 🙂
deg, I’m waiting for your big success so you can stop in Phoenix and say hi on your way to the craziness that is LA. 😉
Well where are your models young lady with red hair!!!
johneaves: “That is one smoke-n nice Enterprise!!! love all the little extras you added with the dish detail and the addition of the torpedo ports and inset saucer hatches…. thanks for throwing your hat into the ring I’ll keep you up on what is happening.”
Thanks! I don’t know if you browsed all the way to the end of that thread but the best and most up-to-date renderings can be found here: http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-wips/37615-conjectural-trek-xi-enterprise-21.html#post408300
That link includes my so-called “Richard Datin wannabe” shot. Check out the link and you’ll get the reference. 😉
Lotsa fine talent, eh. 🙂
DeanneM: deg, I’m waiting for your big success so you can stop in Phoenix and say hi on your way to the craziness that is LA.
Roger dodger D! I’ll bring one or two or my Estes rockets and we can do an October Sky launch out in the desert, eh! 😀
LLP,
deg
Wow some of the work i have seen is absolutely amazing!….. As a matter of offering up some random crazy ideas i would like to offer up my current and old designs…. I maybe too late for this but ehh what the heck 😀
Here is a link to my wips http://steptrollthe.deviantart.com/gallery/ …. a lot of the work is old stuff but the star trek gallery is my most recent work. I am still a novice when it comes to 3d modeling but i am always full of idea’s 😀
Hi, I have done a lot of military vehicles (humvees, blackhawks, apache, stuff like that) I have been using blender for several years now. I am setting up a wordpress to post my work so that you can see what I do. I also am into texturing, not that it’s my favorite thing to do, I am best at modelling. But I love doing this stuff. I assume that we need 6 final sketches before we start the modelling right?
My URL is shadowdd.wordpress.com 😉 there are images up.
I’ve really never modled any real spacecraftish things, so I’ll have to pass on this one, but Ill gladly reccomend Pottyj’s work. He never ceases to amaze me with his work.
lol, thanks Jeremiah. My real name is Keith so if you prefer to type that out rather than pottyj that’s fine 😉
JohnLeaves: Were you thinking more of a older star wars style spaceships (boxy) or the new star wars? If you look at my site, one if a render of a speeder I created that’s similar to the older star wars. But like the new ones are real flowing and almost, look like they’d be for underwater stuff….;) I was just wonder if you could give us some ideas of what style and type you are looking for.
Yeah, I knew it was you Keith. 😛
Well, late by a few days to this party, but thought I would throw some images in. I don’t think I am anywhere near ready, but “what the heck!”. This first set of images is a current WIP. http://s479.photobucket.com/albums/rr153/seattle221/march/advanceproto/ All work has been done in Google Sketchup of all things, LOL. With renders done in Kerkythea. Yea, I know, I must be insane to be using Sketchup, but then again, I have only been doing this about 8 months. Here is the project I cut my teeth on, http://s479.photobucket.com/albums/rr153/seattle221/Seattle%20class/ you can definitly see the learning curve in those images. Any way. hope someone enjoys these, maybe in another 6 months I will be at a stage where I would actually be ready for something like this.
P.S. Vektor’s stuff really is masterful. I take inspiration from everything he does.
Hi John,
If you still need modelers… I’m be more than willing to help out. I could do Ships or Planets. 🙂