Challenge #921 "First Contact" (12/02/21) Entries CLOSED

Title: Resistance Is Futile
Entry: Pure


Edit: re-uploaded, lighting was a bit off

Rendered in Eevee, 512 samples. Enterprise was put together from multiple meshes, most of them deformed with lattices. The windows are separated faces along with a subdivide to round them a bit. Didn’t bother to dig in more details there since the ship is quite small.

The Borg ship was made from a subdivided plane with random blocks extruded. From the initial plane also copied and separated edges only, then randomly selected and removed some edges until I got a maze-looking mesh, then converted it to curve and beveled it to get a pipe-like structure. Duplicated again, rotated to randomize the look, then increased the bevel size to get some thicker pipes. Grouped together the 3 planes to get one face, then created the cube. Inside there’s also an emitting cube to give the greenish radiance. The beam is a cone with alpha blending and with its base deformed so it doesn’t cover the entire dish.

The background is a plane with a really thinned out noise texture along with some random coloring of the stars from another noise texture.

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