#whitestar — Public Fediverse posts

Did some revisions of the contouring texture on the undercarriage. I think I've got it set. #WhiteStar #LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5

Major texturing for the #WhiteStar is finished. Check out that subsurface scattering on the aft fins in the last render!

Now it’s back to Modeler for a landing bay, meditation room, tiny crew, and I want to add some more greebles to the mechanical sections, they look a little plain. #LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5

Made some (subtle) progress on my #WhiteStar recently. At first I freehanded the "contouring,” but I wasn't satisfied. I got enough of a handle on Photoshop's vector tools. In addition to getting nice smooth arcs, it's also easy to tweak. My model has some shape differences from the original, so exactly rebuilding the original maps wouldn't work.

I also turned sub-surface scattering back on. It's murder on render times, but I love how it looks on the tail.
#LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5

Texturing!

My goal is to match the original model at SD resolution, but with subtle additions that become visible in a close-up or at high resolution.

I've built an upscaled version of the base purple wave texture, and created blue, red, and green variations, which I'm mixing together in Lightwave procedurally to create subtle splashes of color, along with gold flecks.

The lines and arcs are being painted in a separate image that I'm using as a mask.
#LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5 #WhiteStar

And after an unjustified amount of work, I've finished cataloging and making the variations of the White Star bridge set. https://www.gian-cursio.net/2024/09/white-star-bridges/

#LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5 #WhiteStar

I've updated my blog post on the "celtic knot" insignia used on different White Stars with illustrated recreations (suitable for avatars). I've also finished the production version of the bridge, and will be moving on to doing the variants seen in seasons 4 and 5. https://www.gian-cursio.net/2023/09/white-star-insignia/ #LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5 #WhiteStar

Since my last update, I finished the season 3 version of the White Star bridge (in all its forms), have been plugging away on the season 4/5 version, and took a quick break to construct the bridge for the Blue Star and resurface Nadab Göksu & William Johansson's model of that ship for PBR after stitching the bridge into it. #LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5 #WhiteStar

Mastodon ate my last update, so, doubling up. I finished the weapons and sensors on the wings and nose, and have started working on a low-res bridge interior, beginning with the season 3 version of the set. #LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5 #WhiteStar

White Star destroys Centauri Blockade - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHP7V2cg1SE&ab_channel=FurdemonLar
#FurdemonLar #Babylon5 #WhiteStar #SpaceBattle

Updates on the White Star, with glowing yellow areas, engine vanes, and landing gear added.
#LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5 #WhiteStar

New WIP renders of my White Star model. The modeling of the main shapes is done, but there's still a lot of detailing that needs to be added, including all the weapons and mechanical parts, the fighter bay, bridge interior, and painted texture maps.

#LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5 #WhiteStar

I started off using Kier Darby's old White Star tutorial and his model as reference, and then began adjusting the spline cage. One big thing I wanted to improve on from the original TV model was how the different sub-assemblies fit into each other. On the left is the way it was on the show (by way of Kier's model), on the right is my version, where I blend the lower nose into the lower hull/undercarriage/girdle. #LightWave3D #3DArt #Babylon5 #WhiteStar

"Her name is the White Star."

As requested by @whytgndlf . I revisited an older image and did some rework on it, thus a result came up this fast. :) This certainly can be improved, but was a nice ad hoc finger excercise. Thanks for asking.

Whitestar by Chris Kuhn, Battlecrab by Michael W. P. - smike, converted to C4D/Redshift by me.

#sf #scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart #render #renderedart #renderedscifiart #Babylon5 #Starfuries #Babylon5Fanart #C4D #Cinema4D #WhiteStar #Minbari