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Brawnfire posted:There's probably talented folk here who could render even your worst attempt at a thumbnail sketch into something awesome. I'd be willing to try, myself, though I'm not claiming to be amazing by any means, just that I'd give it a shot. Maybe I will give it a shot. Art seems like magic to me, like when I watch Drawfee stuff Its just perplexing how such simple looking lines can come together to form an amazing image.
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I like how it is really hard to tell who ripped off whom when it comes to starship design. I feel like any sci-fi starship ‘created’ in the last 30 years has been ripped off, sometimes wholesale, from someone else and the problem is that it happens so often that you can’t really determine who ‘did it first’ except in about a few dozen examples.
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dialhforhero posted:I like how it is really hard to tell who ripped off whom when it comes to starship design. I feel like any sci-fi starship ‘created’ in the last 30 years has been ripped off, sometimes wholesale, from someone else and the problem is that it happens so often that you can’t really determine who ‘did it first’ except in about a few dozen examples. Everything is a remix, and the difference between a professional artist and an amature is the ability to hide your sources. This goes for all creative works not just spaceship drawings.
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 23:26 |
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Also the fact that you could probably just claim it was an obvious ‘homage’ or something. Also can you copyright the design even? I mean, how liberal are the laws on artistic expression and spaceship design?
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Davethulhu posted:The best Trek ship is the Klingon D7 The Old Republic era had a whole design lineage of hammerhead ships, it was pretty great. Hammerhead-class cruiser Praetorian-class frigate Thranta-class corvette Defender-class light corvette (player ship for Jedi classes in SWTOR) Space sharks as far as the eye can see.
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McSpanky posted:The Old Republic era had a whole design lineage of hammerhead ships, it was pretty great. Notably, according to one of the head artists for the Old Republic games, these were intended to be part of the design lineage leading to the Corellian Corvette of A New Hope. The games established that these ships were built by the same megacorp that would later build the Corvette. All of the SWTOR player ships were consciously designed to evoke one of the ships from the movies - the Corellian Corvette for the Jedi, the TIEs for the Sith, Slave-1 for the Bounty Hunter, the B-Wing for the Trooper, and of course the Falcon for the Smuggler.
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 13:25 |
11 pages and not a single mention of the Excelsior, the pinnacle of 1980's movie-era Star Trek design and in-canon arguably the most effective starship ever produced. Shameful.
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 14:32 |
It got a fat belly
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Cythereal posted:the B-Wing for the Trooper The kitbashed B-Wing look was also used for one of the ships in Episode 9, based on an unused design for Enfys Nest's ship in Solo. BT-7 Thunderclap Razor Assault Ship
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 16:57 |
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I really need to go back to TOR before they shut it down and get a ship.
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 17:33 |
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twistedmentat posted:I really need to go back to TOR before they shut it down and get a ship. Nothing to worry about, according to the TOR devs the game has a very steady fanbase and turns a small but constant profit. It's not a WoW killer, but it's found its own niche.
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 18:03 |
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Yeah, they just launched on steam about a month ago which apparently gave it a nice bump in players.
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 18:09 |
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Oh great, I want to go back to my Chiss Bounty Hunter.
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 22:01 |
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Bootcha posted:Lest we forget the one time Valve Software almost made a space game. Wait seriously?! What was it called?
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 22:53 |
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Linux Pirate posted:Wait seriously?! What was it called? Stars of Barathrum and/or Stars of Blood One of Valve's annual ten aborted games
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 23:45 |
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The Moldy Crow owns (even if noone can agree on the size or interior) Nckdictator fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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Drone posted:11 pages and not a single mention of the Excelsior, the pinnacle of 1980's movie-era Star Trek design and in-canon arguably the most effective starship ever produced. Shameful. Good avatar. But yeah the Excelsior and refit Constitution are the best Federation ships.
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Nckdictator posted:The Moldy Crow owns (even if noone can agree on the size or interior) Initially it was going to be a Baudo Star Yacht from the West End Games RPG. The Crow is much better.
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 00:11 |
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Bootcha posted:Lest we forget the one time Valve Software almost made a space game. Most of these aren't bad but the bottom left one looks like two ships jammed together nose to nose.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 04:01 |
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McSpanky posted:Most of these aren't bad but the bottom left one looks like two ships jammed together nose to nose. Bootcha posted:Lest we forget the one time Valve Software almost made a space game. Bottom right is just carrying a tank, wtf?
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 12:15 |
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Don't have a lot of info on this ship. Came from my disorganized Sci-Fi pics folder. Pretty sure it's Star Wars. Anyway, looks cool.
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Linux Pirate posted:Don't have a lot of info on this ship. Came from my disorganized Sci-Fi pics folder. Pretty sure it's Star Wars. It's this: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Wayfarer-class_medium_transport
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Linux Pirate posted:Don't have a lot of info on this ship. Came from my disorganized Sci-Fi pics folder. Pretty sure it's Star Wars. That reminds me of this instragram account https://www.instagram.com/spacegooose/ They make space ships out of ordinary objects.
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twistedmentat posted:That reminds me of this instragram account Thanks. I've known about them from seeing it around, but didn't know the artists name. Linux Pirate fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Aug 24, 2020 |
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twistedmentat posted:They make space ships out of ordinary objects. How else would you make them?
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 01:03 |
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I liked the shape of this one
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 02:04 |
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mind the walrus posted:How else would you make them? In class did you ever pretend an eraser with a paperclip stuck in it was a spaceship? Its that.
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 03:12 |
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twistedmentat posted:In class did you ever pretend an eraser with a paperclip stuck in it was a spaceship? Its that. And honestly reimagining everyday objects as spaceships etc is a pretty good way to get a decent design. Like a lazy example is some of the pod racers in ep.1 were just boeing 737 jet engines with extra poo poo thrown on.
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twistedmentat posted:In class did you ever pretend an eraser with a paperclip stuck in it was a spaceship? Its that. The twist-off cap of a Squeezit bottle
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 04:26 |
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Brawnfire posted:The twist-off cap of a Squeezit bottle That's a good shape for a ship. For me it was bic mechanical pencils as long frigates/ battleship Yamoto style with the clip being the bridge. I always put paper towel roll packs on my shoulders pretending they were madcat/timberwolf missile pods when I was a young'n. Coax cable splitters were like short blockade runners. poo poo like that.
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Linux Pirate posted:That's a good shape for a ship. For me it was bic mechanical pencils as long frigates/ battleship Yamoto style with the clip being the bridge. I always put paper towel roll packs on my shoulders pretending they were madcat/timberwolf missile pods when I was a young'n. Coax cable splitters were like short blockade runners. poo poo like that. Definitely did the long pen ships with clip as elevated bridge. They do the long, slow rumble as they hove into the atmosphere, and fire off searing beams of directed energy.
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 04:56 |
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When I was a kid, I used the guns of Star Wars figures as tiny spaceships. The big rifles were the battleships. My prized "smuggler ship" was a stormtrooper gun which, for some reason, was a translucent green. Hooray for poor 70s quality control, because it was badass as all hell.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:When I was a kid, I used the guns of Star Wars figures as tiny spaceships. That’s more or less how the Sulaco in Aliens was designed. It’s pretty much a flying pulse rifle.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:My prized "smuggler ship" was a stormtrooper gun which, for some reason, was a translucent green. Hooray for poor 70s quality control, because it was badass as all hell.
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 01:02 |
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And of course there's a website that's catalogued every known variant of the kenner stormtrooper rifle, including translucent green.
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 01:06 |
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Robot Style posted:And of course there's a website that's catalogued every known variant of the kenner stormtrooper rifle, including translucent green. Well, thank god for that! edit: I guess if you're really into collecting vintage it could come in handy.
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 01:18 |
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Two things: (1) the person who compiled that list is insane. (2) Imperial Blaster Original V4 was definitely the one I had
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 15:26 |
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GI Joe Missiles and rockets made good space ships too.
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 19:38 |
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I just used micro machines.
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Can I post some ships from my own franchise in here?
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