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Title: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: DahBlount on April 14, 2015, 02:59:24 pm
I recently received these concept art pieces and was given instructions to release them on condition of anonymity.

(http://i.imgur.com/Bn48wnN.jpg?1)
(http://i.imgur.com/XEfa4kR.jpg)

A mystery piece. What do you think it is?
(http://i.imgur.com/JR9Q55O.jpg?3)

Hopefully I will receive an update in the near future. Perhaps the creator may show himself as well!

Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: BritishShivans on April 14, 2015, 03:08:51 pm
Looks like a NOD SF Dragon. The bottom one I'm not sure of. Reminds me kinda of the Ravana or a Cain arm.
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Shivan Hunter on April 14, 2015, 03:24:33 pm
Bottom looks basilisky. Both look good!
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Hellstryker on April 14, 2015, 03:51:33 pm
That is definitely a Dragon. 10/10 would fly again.
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: BritishShivans on April 14, 2015, 03:54:34 pm
I *knew* that bottom one looked like a Basilisk, but my brain was being a nuisance and I couldn't remember the name :B
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 14, 2015, 06:04:04 pm
Clearly one is a Dragon, but it looks almost more zod than shivan with those armor panels all over.
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: The Dagger on April 14, 2015, 06:14:02 pm
Hmm, the concepts look good but I had a hard time guessing the ships until I read the comments. The style is reminiscent of Esarai's Demon WIP, though.
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Valiran on April 17, 2015, 06:05:31 pm
Looks like a remastered version of the Dragon, but the top "claw" looks too different.  Maybe it's a GTVA fighter using reverse-engineered Shivan tech, basically the Dragon equivalent of the Terran Mara?  The idea of flying a souped-up Dragon makes me drool.
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Ulala on April 22, 2015, 12:20:52 pm
Images won't load for me for some reason. Might be because the hosting site is blocked at my workplace though.

[edit]: definitely workplace firewall. Carry on.
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: DahBlount on July 20, 2015, 02:05:09 pm
So this has been some time in coming, but I feel this would be a good time to show some progress.

(http://i.imgur.com/sImXClM.png)
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Cyborg17 on July 20, 2015, 03:01:49 pm
Shiny  :D
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Shivan Hunter on July 20, 2015, 03:24:16 pm
OMG :D
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: DahBlount on August 05, 2015, 12:10:09 am
Another update:

(http://i.imgur.com/9dDT6Ad.png?1)

(http://i.imgur.com/elHoAUm.png?1)
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Galemp on August 11, 2015, 04:16:54 pm
Speaking of dragons...

(http://www.pokemonrubysapphire.com/_ui/img/_en/october/art/mega_rayquaza.png)
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: fightermedic on October 08, 2015, 01:43:34 pm
i really like this concept and the model so far
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: DahBlount on October 08, 2015, 04:58:13 pm
Speaking of which:

Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: headdie on October 09, 2015, 01:53:25 am
Nice
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: DahBlount on October 09, 2015, 01:34:26 pm
Even more updates

(http://i.imgur.com/wi0cuJR.png?1)
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Rodo on October 09, 2015, 03:35:50 pm
Here comes the dragon. I've been waiting for it for ages  :nod:
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: DahBlount on January 15, 2016, 12:01:42 am
P3D updated.
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Nyctaeus on January 15, 2016, 01:06:00 am
Alrough it looks cool, I'm worried about some things from technical point of view. It's not a problem to asseble the parts using boolean, but the polycount is a different matter. Medusa is as far as I know, the most detailed playable model in current MVPs and she has 17,2k. That's obviously enough for bomber sized ship. Current WiP of NuDragon has 18k faces, but it's not even half of the final model.

So what is estimated final polycount?
...and how multiple NuDragons are gonna affect my framerate :P?
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Hades on January 15, 2016, 04:54:56 am
Look at the wireframe in P3D, the mesh is very, very unoptimized and the real polycount is no doubt far lower than how it is now.
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Nyctaeus on January 15, 2016, 08:37:23 am
That's more or less what I'm asking for and a reason why I'm asking. A lot of areas have too much polys, while others are quite okay. The claw in rear part is a nightmare in case of polycount, but at the other side, it looks like the most finished part so far.

I'm interested in estimated final polycount, and what DahBlount is gonna do with this.
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: DahBlount on January 15, 2016, 08:43:02 am
2 things Betrayal
1. I am legitimately not the person modeling this.
2. The reason for the large amount of faces is due to a subsurf modifier and thus, the P3D does not accurately show the final polycount.
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Nyctaeus on January 15, 2016, 08:55:57 am
This style of modelling... Yeah, now it's clear.

I'm wondering if our beloved mysterious benefactor is gonna finish his other projects. I'm sure I've seen "head" of some shivan destroyer somewhere here :P.

 
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: DahBlount on January 31, 2016, 01:18:35 am
Got another update for you guys.

(http://puu.sh/mQi0V/085884f109.png)

(http://puu.sh/mQi23/3ada917830.png)
Title: Re: A mysterious benefactor has leaked me a few secret concepts
Post by: Nyctaeus on January 31, 2016, 05:15:43 am
:yes: :yes: :yes: